Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History Christopher S. Mackay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Imagine a class where you study the military and political history of Ancient Rome. Jul 20, 2013 - My daughter is four and is starting PreK this year {sniff, sniff} and my son is 9-months old and literally into everything. During his reign Officially declared by the senate as optimus princeps (“the best emperor”), Trajan is remembered as a successful soldier-emperor who presided over the greatest military expansion in Roman history, leading the empire to attain its maximum territorial extent by the time of his death. Unfortunately, we have also adopted many of the same mistakes that led to Rome's eventual decline as a world power; and if things don't start changing, America could soon be headed into the oblivion of history, simply because we failed . Education was very important to the Ancient Romans. Jul 20, 2013 - He had NO major wars, NO tawdry rumors said about him (in fact he only married one woman over his entire life), NO political or religious persecutions. Lucretia as the epitome of pudicitia, and it is possible that her rape and subsequent suicide are not so much historical fact as an allegorical tale constructed both to uphold Roman values and to account for the fall of the monarchy and birth of the Republic. Jul 22, 2012 - Zenobia would have represented everything that was held despicable by the ruling male elite of Rome. Jan 30, 2014 - Rome was the birthplace of much today's organized medicine, architecture, roads, transportation, government, literature, art and military. Jun 24, 2012 - In Rome, a woman had no legal identity other than as a man's daughter or wife, entirely subjected first to her father and then to her husband, who was entitled to beat her if he felt that she had overstepped her mark. Aug 10, 2003 - Roman Education. May 31, 2014 - A man named Philip H. One camparison that rings true is the amount of greed and aravice among the politicians. The rich people in Ancient Rome put a great deal of faith in education.