Barbara Levick

Dados Biográficos

ID1041791
NOMEBarbara Levick
PRENOMESBarbara
SOBRENOMELevick
ASSINATURALEVICK B
AFILIAÇÕESSt. John's College
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS39
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES247
TOTAL COMO AUTOR37
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1958
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H5

  • The High Tide of Empire

    Open AccessBarbara LevickBOOKHigh Tide of Empire2023

    This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Roman Empire during the period AD 14-117, with accompanying maps and introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources…

  • Cassius Dio

    Jesper Majbom Madsen, Marguerite Johnson et al.BOOKCassius Dio2020

    This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its sheer size, is often imprecise and superficial in its analysis. It has also been assumed that there was n…

  • Xenophon

    Fiona Hobden, Marguerite Johnson et al.BOOKXenophon2020

    This book offers a concise introduction to Xenophon, the Athenian historian, political thinker, moral philosopher and literary innovator who was also a pupil of Socrates, a military general on campaign in Persia, and an exile in residence in the Peloponnese during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC. Alive during one of the most turbulent periods in Greek history, Xenophon wrote extensively about the past and present. In doing so he not only i…

  • Kaius Tuori. The Emperor of Law

    Barbara Levick, B M LevickARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    Behind an enigmatic main title lies a long-standing historical puzzle: how did the Roman emperor come to be supreme judge? The first answer proposed was simple, and dates back to the time of Theodor Mommsen in the mid-nineteenth century. The power was conferred constitutionally, by law, and it was an answer feebly supported by claims put forward by the third-century Greek historian Cassius Dio and by reference to a lex regia in the sixth-century …

  • Vespasian

    Barbara LevickBOOKVespasian2016Citada por: 2

    From a pre-eminent biographer in the field, this volume examines the life and times of the emperor Vespasian and challenges the validity of his perennial good reputation and universally acknowledged achievements. Levick examines how this plebeian and uncharismatic Emperor restored peace and confidence to Rome and ensured a smooth succession, how he coped with the military, political and economic problems of his reign, and his evaluation of the so…

  • Claudius

    Barbara LevickBOOKClaudius2015Citada por: 2

    Claudius became emperor after the assassination of Caligula, and was deified by his successor Nero in AD 54. Opinions of him have varied greatly over succeeding centuries, but he has mostly been caricatured as a reluctant emperor, hampered by a speech impediment, who preferred reading to ruling. Barbara Levick's authoritative study reassesses the reign of Claudius, examining his political objectives and activities within the constitutional, polit…

  • Public and Private in the Dynasty

    Barbara Levick, Barbara M LevickCHAPTERFaustina I and II2014

    This chapter discusses the concept of the empire as theatre, and the difficulty of distinguishing the private and public aspects of the dynasty. Public representations are an element in the themes of theatricality—empresses, while lacking the military power that comes with their husbands' titles are influential in their own way as models of society and as symbols of motherhood and fertility. Other ways in which an empress' role is perceived is in…

  • The Succession to Hadrian

    Barbara Levick, Barbara M LevickCHAPTERFaustina I and II2014

    This chapter explores the political rivalries engendered in the Emperor Hadrian's succession plans. Roman politics is notoriously rife with such complications, more so when the emperor is childless and must adopt a successor. After much political manoeuvring, Antoninus Pius, husband to Faustina I, becomes heir. Pius later adopts Marcus Aurelius, husband of the younger Faustina, as his successor.

  • Sources

    Barbara Levick, Barbara M LevickCHAPTERFaustina I and II2014

    This chapter addresses the challenge of reconstructing the history behind a pair of the more prominent women in Roman times, the Faustinas I and II. Many of the facts relating to their lives are often cross-referenced from the evidence of their husbands and sons. By far the best sources of information on these Roman empresses are the imperial coinage, which contains dates, images, and even references to historical events, all of which can be used…

  • Augustus

    Barbara LevickBOOKAugustus2014

    Throughout a long and spectacularly successful political life, the Emperor Augustus (63BC-AD14) was a master of spin. Barbara Levick exposes the techniques which he used to disguise the ruthlessness of his rise to power and to enhance his successes once power was achieved. There was, she argues, less difference than might appear between the ambitious youth who overthrew Anthony and Cleopatra and the admired Emperor of later years. However seeming…

  • Faustina I and II

    Barbara Levick, Barbara M LevickBOOKFaustina I and II2014Citada por: 1

    The elder Faustina (c.97–140 ad) was the wife of Antonius Pius and the aunt of Marcus Aurelius, and her more prominent daughter, Faustina II (130–175), the wife of Marcus Aurelius and the mother of Commodus. Bearing the same name, and both the wives of rulers, these women shed valuable light on the role of imperial women in in what is often considered the golden age of the Roman Empire. This book highlights the importance of these women to the in…

  • Claudius

    Barbara LevickBOOKRoman Imperial Biographies2012

    Claudius became emperor after the assassination of Caligula, and was deified by his successor Nero in AD 54. Opinions of him have varied greatly over succeeding centuries, but he has mostly been caricatured as a reluctant emperor, hampered by a speech impediment, who preferred reading to ruling.Barbara Levick's authoritative study reassesses the reign of Claudius, examining his political objectives and activities within the constitutional, politi…

  • Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor

    Open AccessSheila L Ager, Richard A Billows et al.BOOKRegionalism in Hellenistic and…2007Citada por: 3

    La notion de région a depuis fort longtemps été un concept de base de l'analyse historique du monde grec. Cependant, ce concept n'a pas toujours été clairement défini. Les contributions de ce volume n'esquivent pas la question et s'efforcent de mettre en évidence les implications de la notion selon différentes perspectives d'analyse, en prenant pour cadre de référence l'Asie Mineure hellénistique et romaine. Qu'elles examinent la culture, le monn…

  • Vespasian

    Murray Humphries, Mark Humphries et al.ARTICLEClassics Ireland2002

  • Vespasian

    Barbara LevickBOOKVespasian2002Citada por: 1

    From a pre-eminent biographer in the field, this well-documented and illustrated biography examines the life and time of the emperor Vespasian and challenges the validity of his perennial good reputation and universally acknowledged achievements. Examining received opinions on Vespasian, Barbara Levick examines how this plebeian and uncharismatic Emperor restored peace and confidence to Rome and ensured a smooth succession. Outlining how he gaine…

  • The Government of the Roman Empire

    Barbara LevickBOOKGovernment of the Roman Empire2002

    This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration of the empire, using the evidence of contemporary writers and historians.Specifically designed for students, with extensive cross-referencing, bibliographies and introductions and explanations for …

  • Women in Antiquity

    Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari, Richard Hawley et al.BOOKWomen in Antiquity2002Citada por: 70

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  • Vespasian

    C J Simpson, Barbara LevickARTICLEPhoenix2001

  • Greece and Asia Minor

    Open AccessBarbara LevickCHAPTERThe Cambridge ancient history.2000

    Greece, Asia Minor and the islands came off lightly in the civil wars of 68-70. The Flavians were ready to promote urbanization and restoration. Vespasian's unification of eastern Asia Minor into the northern section of a great command imposed strains. When Trajan himself began campaigning in the East he brought it to an end. Hadrian on his travels did not neglect military matters but in Greece and even in Asia Minor, in spite of the very large n…

  • The Cambridge Ancient History

    Open AccessI E S Edwards, John B Bury et al.BOOKThe Cambridge ancient history.2000

    Volume XI of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History covers the history of the Roman empire in the period from AD 70 to 192, from Vespasian to the Antonines. The volume begins with the political and military history of the period. Developments in the structure of the empire are then examined, including the organisation and personnel of the central government and province-based institutions and practices. A series of provincial studies…

  • Women in Antiquity

    Robert W Cape, Robert W Cape Robert W Cape et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1998

    This volume collects together 14 articles by leading authorities covering history, the law, mythology, literature, and religion in Graeco-Roman antiquity, reflecting 20 years of scholarship. The majority of articles have been updated to take account of the latest discoveries and developments, and the detailed and substantial introduction has been written by Gillian Clark, an expert in the field, lecturer in classics, University of Liverpool and a…

  • Ruling Roman Britain

    Barbara Levick, David BraundARTICLEBritannia1998Citada por: 28

    In this book, David Braund offers a significantly different perspective upon the history of Roman Britain. He concentrates upon the literary evidence, which has been studied to a lesser extent than archaeology in recent years. Close attention to the Greek and Roman sources enables the construction of a new approach to Roman Britain, its history and its archaeology. For the first time, monarchy is identified as a key issue in the history of Roman …

  • Greece (Including Crete and Cyprus) and Asia Minor From 43 b.c. To a.d. 69

    Open AccessBarbara Levick, B M LevickCHAPTERThe Cambridge Ancient History…1996

    The differences between the three regions, mainland Greece and the islands, western Asia Minor, and the Anatolian plateau, remained clear and are only lightly masked by the Greek terminology and nomenclature that literacy and public life were imposing. The islands of Crete and Cyprus were allowed to survive for longer outside direct control, Cyprus until P. Clodius Pulcher passed a bill for its annexation in 58 BC Crete in part at least until the…

  • Claudius

    Anthony A Barrett, Barbara LevickARTICLEPhoenix1992

  • Claudius

    Donald G Kyle, Barbara LevickARTICLEThe Classical World1991