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The Aeneid and Roman Justice

such, the men prepare for the journey, but are instantly faced with a critical setback: Aeneas primary fleet captain Palinurus is ...

Realism and the Great Rome’s Great Peace

The history of ancient Rome revolves largely around warfare. There was, however, a time in Roman history when...

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

This book review is on Stacy Schiff's fascinating biography of Cleopatra, which relates the life narrative of a woman who was an i...

Rome Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Mankinds history and prehistory is replete with the invention of extremely diverse tools, devices, and other aspects of the variou...

What Adopted Children Should Know About Their Biological Parents

This paper argues the thesis that genetic and sociological information about birth parents should be available to the children the...

The Golden Ass and Roman Society

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Golden Ass. The novel is examined for its treatment of Roman society. Paper uses...

World War II the US and Japan

This paper explores the reasons the US entered World War II as well as the reasons behind the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. T...

Christianizing the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen

This book review discusses the motivations described by MacMullen that propelled conversion to Christianity during its early centu...

Emperor Augustus and Roman Advancement

Emperor Augustus, previously known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, effected numerous changes that led to the Great Peace or the...

Agrippina and the Patriarchy of Roman Rule

life of Agrippina the Younger, a potent historical figure renowned for her shrewd political machinations, and ruthless ambition. ...

Roman Government

This paper considers the need for evolution in Rome’s government. Caesar Augustus was particularly successful in adjusting for co...

Elisha and the Romans

As a Driven Leaf. The book is a fictionalized account of the life of a real person, Elisha ben Abuyah, an early Talmudic scholar w...

2 Poems by Roman Poet Catullus

unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...

Child Abuse and Roman Catholic Priests

are likely committing such acts with the perpetrator out of imposed fear. Part of the coercion is likely based on verbally listed ...

Greek and Roman Women of Elite Class

in understanding this we must also examine a culture that often influenced how men saw women. Sexuality was a very powerful and na...

Grecian and Roman Styles of Death

Fields(Pearce, 2002). From early Greek accounts, then, one could easily conclude several things about the ordinary Grecian...

Roman Catholic Church and Homosexuality

must refrain from homosexual activity if they are to abide by Biblical directives. The issues which the Catholic Church is confro...

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations

the fact that the Persian fighters outnumbered those from Greece (History of Ancient Greece, 2001). Interestingly enough, the vict...

Vindication in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

damned by critics as a "cowardly, furtive attack on divine truths and simple faith" (Craddock 60). Gibbons ostensible purpose in ...

Reasons for the Collapse of the Roman Empire

In five pages religious, social, and political reasons are examined in this consideration of the causes of Rome's fall. Seven sou...

Edith Wharton's Roman Fever

In five page this research paper examines the female characters revelations and what they say about their competition and their li...

Roman and Celtic Reconciliation at the Synod of Whitby

type of missionary later on. They were independent and not at all associated with the Papacy (Horner, 2000). Columba may be one ...

Life and Works of the First Roman Christian Emperor Constantine

before Constantius died and the army promptly proclaimed Constantine as Caesar; this was something which worried Galerius, but he ...

Great Britain's Roman Provinces and Their 'Creolization'

way in which acculturation takes place in terms of the population adopting the symbols of the dominant culture is now considered t...

Chapters 15 and 16 of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

that even hostile nations "embraced, or at least respected, each others superstition" (p. 94). However, the Jews were the only peo...

A Century of Chaos and Corruption During the Roman Civil Wars

http://webpages.marshall.edu/ ~lloydc/RomCivWars.html). The armies of the Senate ultimately overtook Tiberius, killing the leader...

Roman Society and the Role of Augustus

the Republic (1999). Augustus is considered to be the first Emperor even though he never proclaimed himself as absolute ruler (199...

Roman Catholic Church's Mortal Sin Actions and Thoughts

In five pages this research paper discusses the Catholic Church's doctrinal differences between mortal sin thought and actions and...

Dead Sea Scrolls and 'Hellenistic Roman Palestine'

In nine pages this paper discusses how many historical questions could be answered through the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish his...

Beowulf and Ancient Greek, Roman, and World Societies

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts these various peoples who lived in different societies during different time perio...