Keith Hopkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Hopkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Hopkins |
| SIGNATURE | HOPKINS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 528 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Sociological Studies in Roman History
Keith Hopkins was a sociologist and Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge from 1985 to 2001. He is widely recognised as one of the most radical, innovative and influential Roman historians of his generation. This volume presents fourteen of Hopkins' essays on an impressive range of subjects: contraception, demography, economic history, slavery, literacy, imperial power, Roman religion, Early Christianity, and the social and political structur…
Death and Renewal: Volume 2
Rome, Taxes, Rents and Trade
Novel Evidence for Roman Slavery
Journal Article NOVEL EVIDENCE FOR ROMAN SLAVERY Get access Keith Hopkins Keith Hopkins King's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 138, Issue 1, February 1993, Pages 3–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/138.1.3 Published: 01 February 1993
What is Social History
Ever since its elevation to the status of a disdpline, and the emergence of a hierarchically organised profession, history has been very largely concerned with problematics of its own making. Sometimes it is suggested by ‘gaps’ which the young researcher is advised by supervisors to fill; or by an established interpretation which, iconoclastically, he or she is encouraged to challenge. Fashion may direct the historians’ gaze; or a new methodology…
Death and Renewal. Sociological Studies in Roman History 2
Death and Renewal: Sociological Studies in Roman History, II
Trade in the Ancient Economy
Death and Renewal. Sociological Studies in Roman History
Political Succession in the Late Republic (249–50 Bc)
INTRODUCTION When Julius Caeser was thinking of setting himself up as king of Rome, or so rumour had it, Brutus was repeatedly reminded by graffiti scrawled on his tribunal: ‘Brutus are you asleep?’ and ‘You are no true Brutus.’ These slogans recalled the deeds of his distant ancestor, who over four hundred years previously had killed the last king of Rome. In ad 22, Brutus' sister Junia, the widow of Cassius (the other leading assassin of Caesar…
Murderous Games
INTRODUCTION Rome was a warrior state. During two centuries of imperial expansion following the second war against Carthage, that is in the last two centuries bc , Rome conquered the whole of the Mediterranean basin, and incorporated the conquered territory and its inhabitants, perhaps one fifth or one sixth of the world's then population, within the Roman state. These victories were bought at a price, paid by hundreds of thousands of men killed …
Death in Rome
INTRODUCTION When a Roman noble died, his funeral cortège comprised relatives and friends, hired actors wearing waxen masks of the dead man's famous ancestors, professional mourners wailing loudly and shouting out his exploits, and by contrast troupes of boisterous satyr dancers, all accompanied by flutes and horns (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.72). The corpse was carried to the forum, and was placed, usually upright but sometimes…
Ambition and Withdrawal: The Senatorial Aristocracy Under the Emperors
INTRODUCTION The imposition of monarchy changed Roman political culture but to a remarkable extent preserved the existing political structure. The first emperor, Augustus (31 bc – ad 14), boasted that he had restored the Republic. This was partly propaganda designed to legitimate his reign, and to obscure his innovations. There was also some truth in it. But why did a monarch restore the Republican constitution? One partial answer is that the oli…
Trade in the Ancient Economy
Death and Renewal: Sociological Studies in Roman History
This is a volume of studies concerned with death and its impact on the social order. The first topic considered is gladiatorial combat; not merely popular entertainment, it was also an important element in Roman politics. The book then investigates the composition of the political elite in the late Republic and Principate (249 BC – AD 235), showing that ideals of hereditary succession disguised high rates of social mobility. The final chapter ran…
Conquerors and slaves
Taxes and Trade in the Roman Empire (200 B.C.–A.D. 400)
This essay is speculative and tentative, a preliminary attempt at exploring a broad territory of Roman economic history over a long period. For the sake of clarity, I have canvassed several probabilities in the form of propositions, but the evidence is so sparse that it is difficult to prove that each proposition is right. It is disappointing to confess at the outset that one's case is unproven and that the generalizations advanced are disproport…
The Comparative Study of Slavery
Brother-Sister Marriage in Roman Egypt
A Favourable Horoscope: 'If a son is born when the Sun is in the terms of Mercury, he will be successful and have great power ... He will be brave and tall and will acquire property and moreover will be married to his own sister and will have children by her
Rules of Evidence
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Demography in Roman History
Hong Kong: Victorian Colony: Review
Hong Kong: The Industrial Colony
Enter Plato. Classical Greece and the Origins of Social Theory
Civil-Military Relations in Developing Countries
The purpose of this paper is to review some of the structural determinants of the interaction between the civilian government and military organizations in developing countries. Perhaps the most obvious expressions of this interaction are coups d'itat. Both their frequency in recent years and their dramatic quality have ensured their study, mostly by historians and political scientists, rarely by sociologists. According to Finer, coups have occur…
Conquerors and slaves
Death and Renewal: Sociological Studies in Roman History
This is a volume of studies concerned with death and its impact on the social order. The first topic considered is gladiatorial combat; not merely popular entertainment, it was also an important element in Roman politics. The book then investigates the composition of the political elite in the late Republic and Principate (249 BC – AD 235), showing that ideals of hereditary succession disguised high rates of social mobility. The final chapter ran…
Trade in the Ancient Economy
Novel Evidence for Roman Slavery
Journal Article NOVEL EVIDENCE FOR ROMAN SLAVERY Get access Keith Hopkins Keith Hopkins King's CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 138, Issue 1, February 1993, Pages 3–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/138.1.3 Published: 01 February 1993
Elite Mobility in the Roman Empire
Journal Article ELITE MOBILITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE* Get access Keith Hopkins Keith Hopkins London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 32, Issue 1, December 1965, Pages 12–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/32.1.12 Published: 01 December 1965
Eunuchs in Politics in the Later Roman Empire
Why Eunuchs? Primarily because they were important. No-one who has waded through the church histories of the fourth and fifth centuries or the numerous later Byzantine chronicles, or those lives of the saints which touch upon court life, can have failed to be struck by die frequent imputation that, in the Eastern Empire especially, the real power lay in the hands not of the emperor nor of his aristocrats, but of his chief eunuch; or alternatively…
Brother-Sister Marriage in Roman Egypt
A Favourable Horoscope: 'If a son is born when the Sun is in the terms of Mercury, he will be successful and have great power ... He will be brave and tall and will acquire property and moreover will be married to his own sister and will have children by her
Hong Kong: The Industrial Colony
East-West Parallels: Sociological Approaches to Modern Asia
On the probable age structure of the Roman population
The average expectation of life has often been calculated from ages given on the many thousands of surviving Roman tombstones. But the distribution of these ages at death is demographically most improbable. However, this can be easily explained once attention is paid to the patterns of commemoration between relatives, for in some inscriptions the age at death is given, in others a relationship (e.g. marriage) is commemorated, in yet others both a…
Civil-Military Relations in Developing Countries
The purpose of this paper is to review some of the structural determinants of the interaction between the civilian government and military organizations in developing countries. Perhaps the most obvious expressions of this interaction are coups d'itat. Both their frequency in recent years and their dramatic quality have ensured their study, mostly by historians and political scientists, rarely by sociologists. According to Finer, coups have occur…
Contraception in the Roman Empire
of ArgumentIt has long been recognized that upper class Romans in their desire for small families practised abortion on a large scale. What is not well known is the extent to which these same upper class Romans were concerned with contraception. Some of the methods advocated by Greek and Roman doctors could have been very effective, and aspects of ancient contraceptive theory were as advanced as any modern theory before the middle of the 19th cen…
Death and Renewal. Sociological Studies in Roman History
Rules of Evidence
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Demography in Roman History
Elements of Comparative Sociology
Enter Plato. Classical Greece and the Origins of Social Theory
Essays on Comparative Institutions
A Textual Emendation in a Fragment of Musonius Rufus: A Note on Contraception
IN the fourth book of Stobaeus’ Anthologium, in a section entitled, ‘The Virtue of Having Children’
Eunuchs in Politics in the Later Roman Empire
Why Eunuchs? Primarily because they were important. No-one who has waded through the church histories of the fourth and fifth centuries or the numerous later Byzantine chronicles, or those lives of the saints which touch upon court life, can have failed to be struck by die frequent imputation that, in the Eastern Empire especially, the real power lay in the hands not of the emperor nor of his aristocrats, but of his chief eunuch; or alternatively…
The Peculiar Institution
A Textual Emendation in a Fragment of Musonius Rufus: A Note on Contraception
IN the fourth book of Stobaeus’ Anthologium, in a section entitled, ‘The Virtue of Having Children’
East-West Parallels: Sociological Approaches to Modern Asia
Elements of Comparative Sociology
Elite Mobility in the Roman Empire
Journal Article ELITE MOBILITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE* Get access Keith Hopkins Keith Hopkins London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 32, Issue 1, December 1965, Pages 12–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/32.1.12 Published: 01 December 1965
Contraception in the Roman Empire
of ArgumentIt has long been recognized that upper class Romans in their desire for small families practised abortion on a large scale. What is not well known is the extent to which these same upper class Romans were concerned with contraception. Some of the methods advocated by Greek and Roman doctors could have been very effective, and aspects of ancient contraceptive theory were as advanced as any modern theory before the middle of the 19th cen…
Civil-Military Relations in Developing Countries
The purpose of this paper is to review some of the structural determinants of the interaction between the civilian government and military organizations in developing countries. Perhaps the most obvious expressions of this interaction are coups d'itat. Both their frequency in recent years and their dramatic quality have ensured their study, mostly by historians and political scientists, rarely by sociologists. According to Finer, coups have occur…
Essays on Comparative Institutions
On the probable age structure of the Roman population
The average expectation of life has often been calculated from ages given on the many thousands of surviving Roman tombstones. But the distribution of these ages at death is demographically most improbable. However, this can be easily explained once attention is paid to the patterns of commemoration between relatives, for in some inscriptions the age at death is given, in others a relationship (e.g. marriage) is commemorated, in yet others both a…
Enter Plato. Classical Greece and the Origins of Social Theory
Hong Kong: Victorian Colony: Review
Hong Kong: The Industrial Colony
Demography in Roman History
Rules of Evidence
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Taxes and Trade in the Roman Empire (200 B.C.–A.D. 400)
This essay is speculative and tentative, a preliminary attempt at exploring a broad territory of Roman economic history over a long period. For the sake of clarity, I have canvassed several probabilities in the form of propositions, but the evidence is so sparse that it is difficult to prove that each proposition is right. It is disappointing to confess at the outset that one's case is unproven and that the generalizations advanced are disproport…
The Comparative Study of Slavery
Brother-Sister Marriage in Roman Egypt
A Favourable Horoscope: 'If a son is born when the Sun is in the terms of Mercury, he will be successful and have great power ... He will be brave and tall and will acquire property and moreover will be married to his own sister and will have children by her
Conquerors and slaves
Political Succession in the Late Republic (249–50 Bc)
INTRODUCTION When Julius Caeser was thinking of setting himself up as king of Rome, or so rumour had it, Brutus was repeatedly reminded by graffiti scrawled on his tribunal: ‘Brutus are you asleep?’ and ‘You are no true Brutus.’ These slogans recalled the deeds of his distant ancestor, who over four hundred years previously had killed the last king of Rome. In ad 22, Brutus' sister Junia, the widow of Cassius (the other leading assassin of Caesar…
Murderous Games
INTRODUCTION Rome was a warrior state. During two centuries of imperial expansion following the second war against Carthage, that is in the last two centuries bc , Rome conquered the whole of the Mediterranean basin, and incorporated the conquered territory and its inhabitants, perhaps one fifth or one sixth of the world's then population, within the Roman state. These victories were bought at a price, paid by hundreds of thousands of men killed …
Death in Rome
INTRODUCTION When a Roman noble died, his funeral cortège comprised relatives and friends, hired actors wearing waxen masks of the dead man's famous ancestors, professional mourners wailing loudly and shouting out his exploits, and by contrast troupes of boisterous satyr dancers, all accompanied by flutes and horns (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 7.72). The corpse was carried to the forum, and was placed, usually upright but sometimes…
Ambition and Withdrawal: The Senatorial Aristocracy Under the Emperors
INTRODUCTION The imposition of monarchy changed Roman political culture but to a remarkable extent preserved the existing political structure. The first emperor, Augustus (31 bc – ad 14), boasted that he had restored the Republic. This was partly propaganda designed to legitimate his reign, and to obscure his innovations. There was also some truth in it. But why did a monarch restore the Republican constitution? One partial answer is that the oli…
Trade in the Ancient Economy
Death and Renewal: Sociological Studies in Roman History
This is a volume of studies concerned with death and its impact on the social order. The first topic considered is gladiatorial combat; not merely popular entertainment, it was also an important element in Roman politics. The book then investigates the composition of the political elite in the late Republic and Principate (249 BC – AD 235), showing that ideals of hereditary succession disguised high rates of social mobility. The final chapter ran…
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