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The history of the Roman Republic was a military success story. Texts, monuments and rituals commemorated Rome's victories, and this emphasis on its own triumphs formed a basis for the Roman nobility's claim to leadership. However, the Romans also suffered numerous heavy defeats during the Republic. This study is the first to comprehensively examine how Rome's defeats at the hands of the Celts, Samnites, and Carthaginians were explained and interpreted in the historical culture of the Republic and early imperial period. What emerges is a specifically Roman culture of dealing with defeats, which helped the Romans to find meaning in the stories of their failures and to assign them a place in their own past. Simon Lentzsch is a research assistant at the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Cologne. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Ancient history --- History of Europe --- geschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- Europe --- Europe—History—To 476. --- History of Ancient Europe.

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The book puts the current interest in historical Jesus research into a proper historical context, highlighting Gnosticism’s lasting influence on early Christianity and making the provocative claim that nearly all Christian Churches are in some way descended from Roman Christianity. Breaking with the accepted wisdom of Christianity’s origins, the revised history it puts forward challenges the assumptions of Church and secular historians, biblical critics and general readers alike, with profound repercussions for scholarship, belief and practice. .

Religion. --- Bible --- Ethnology. --- Europe --- Religious Studies. --- Biblical Studies. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- History of Ancient Europe. --- Theology. --- History—To 476. --- Christianity. --- Religionsgeschichtliche Schule. --- Church history. --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History of religions school --- History --- Religions --- Church history --- Origin --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Bible-Theology. --- Europe-History-To 476. --- Bible—Theology. --- Europe—History—To 476.

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This open access book demonstrates the application of simulation modelling and network analysis techniques in the field of Roman studies. It summarizes and discusses the results of a 5-year research project carried out by the editors that aimed to apply spatial dynamical modelling to reconstruct and understand the socio-economic development of the Dutch part of the Roman frontier (limes) zone, in particular the agrarian economy and the related development of settlement patterns and transport networks in the area. The project papers are accompanied by invited chapters presenting case studies and reflections from other parts of the Roman Empire focusing on the themes of subsistence economy, demography, transport and mobility, and socio-economic networks in the Roman period. The book shows the added value of state-of-the-art computer modelling techniques and bridges computational and conventional approaches. Topics that will be of particular interest to archaeologists are the question of (forced) surplus production, the demographic and economic effects of the Roman occupation on the local population, and the structuring of transport networks and settlement patterns. For modellers, issues of sensitivity analysis and validation of modelling results are specifically addressed. This book will appeal to students and researchers working in the computational humanities and social sciences, in particular, archaeology and ancient history.

Social sciences—Data processing. --- Social sciences—Computer programs. --- Archaeology. --- Computer simulation. --- Europe-History-To 476. --- Social sciences --- Computational Social Sciences. --- Simulation and Modeling. --- History of Ancient Europe. --- Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. --- Computer modeling --- Computer models --- Modeling, Computer --- Models, Computer --- Simulation, Computer --- Electromechanical analogies --- Mathematical models --- Simulation methods --- Model-integrated computing --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Data processing. --- Computer programs. --- Europe --- Europe—History—To 476. --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Social sciences—Data processing --- Social sciences—Computer programs --- Archaeology --- Computer simulation --- Europe—History—To 476 --- Application software

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This book provides an interpretive narrative of the wars fought by Bulgaria against the Byzantine Empire for dominant control of the Balkan Peninsula during the early medieval era. Over a span of two centuries, from the early ninth through the early eleventh, and under the leadership of the Bulgarian rulers Krum, Simeon I, and Samuil, those conflicts evolved from simple confrontations for territorial possession into a life-or-death struggle for imperial precedence within the Orthodox world then emerging in Eastern Europe—a struggle that the Bulgarians ultimately lost. The primary focus is on Bulgaria, rather than Byzantium, and an effort is made to provide a historically reliable chronology of the assorted campaigns. The various belligerents’ military organizations, defensive technologies, armaments, and tactics are surveyed in an introduction to the main narrative. A prelude chapter sets the stage for the hegemonic conflict, which was divided into three distinct phases by interludes of relative peace between the contending parties, during which Bulgaria’s domestic, foreign, and cultural developments shaped the nature and conduct of the fighting in each successive phase.

Byzantine Empire --- History, Military. --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Military history. --- Imperialism. --- History, Ancient. --- Europe-History-To 476. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- History of Military. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- Ancient History. --- History of Ancient Europe. --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- History --- Naval history --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Europe—History—To 476.

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This book critically explores the development of radical criminology through a range of written Ancient Greek works including epic and lyrical poetry, drama and philosophy, across different chapters. It traces the development of political power and the concepts of law, legitimacy, crime, justice and deviance in the Ancient Greek world and the political struggles that propelled that development, using the conflict perspective as a conceptual tool of the sociological analysis of reality. Theoretical discussions of crime and justice typically stem from the better known works of Plato or Aristotle although this book explores the works preceding these. This book will appeal to those interested in the (pre)history of criminology and the historical production of criminological knowledge.

Crime --- Leisure --- Critical criminology. --- Criminology --- Social sciences --- Criminals --- Radical criminology --- Criminal sociology --- Sociology of crime --- Sociology --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Study and teaching --- Sociological aspects --- Philosophy of law. --- Europe-History-To 476. --- World politics. --- Social sciences-Philosophy. --- Classical literature. --- Critical Criminology. --- Philosophy of Law. --- History of Ancient Europe. --- Political History. --- Social Theory. --- Classical and Antique Literature. --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Political science. --- Europe—History—To 476. --- Social sciences—Philosophy. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- State, The