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UNINA9910456588503321 |
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Winterling Aloys |
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Caligula [[electronic resource] ] : a biography / / Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul Psoinos |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
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1-283-33183-7 |
9786613331830 |
0-520-94314-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SchneiderDeborah Lucas |
MostGlenn W |
PsoinosPaul |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Emperors - Rome |
Electronic books. |
Rome History Caligula, 37-41 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published in German: Mùˆnchen : C.H. Beck, c2003, with title Caligula : eine Biographie. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: A mad emperor? -- Childhood and youth -- Two years as princeps -- The conflicts escalate -- Five months of monarchy -- Murder on the Palatine -- Conclusion: Inventing the mad emperor -- Epilogue to the English edition. |
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The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. He forced men and women of high rank to have sex with him, turned part of his palace into a brothel, and committed incest with his sisters. He wanted to make his horse a consul. Torture and executions were the order of the day. Both modern and ancient interpretations have concluded from this alleged evidence that Caligula was insane. But was he? This biography tells a different story of the well-known |
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emperor. In a deft account written for a general audience, Aloys Winterling opens a new perspective on the man and his times. Basing Caligula on a thorough new assessment of the ancient sources, he sets the emperor's story into the context of the political system and the changing relations between the senate and the emperor during Caligula's time and finds a new rationality explaining his notorious brutality. |
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UNINA9910789326303321 |
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Autore |
Acharya Amitav |
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Civilizations in embrace : the spread of ideas and the transformation of power : India and Southeast Asia in the classical age / / Amitav Acharya [[electronic resource]] |
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Singapore : , : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 88 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Nalanda-Sriwijaya research series |
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HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia |
Southeast Asia Civilization Indic influences |
Southeast Asia Politics and government |
India Relations Southeast Asia |
Southeast Asia Relations India |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Debating Indian Influence in Southeast Asia -- 3 "Indianization", "Localization" or "Convergence"? -- 4 Understanding How and Why Ideas Spread -- 5 "Hellenization" of the Mediterranean compared to "Indianization" of Southeast Asia: Two Paradigms of Cultural Diffusion? -- 6 Final Thoughts -- Photo Section -- Bibliography -- Index |
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This study revisits one of the most extensive examples of the spread of ideas in the history of civilization: the diffusion of Indian religious and |
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political ideas to Southeast Asia before the advent of Islam and European colonialism. Hindu and Buddhist concepts and symbols of kingship and statecraft helped to legitimize Southeast Asian rulers, and transform the political institutions and authority of Southeast Asia. But the process of this diffusion was not accompanied by imperialism, political hegemony, or "colonization" as conventionally understood. This book investigates different explanations of the spread of Indian ideas offered by scholars, including why and how it occurred and what were its key political and institutional outcomes. It challenges the view that strategic competition is a recurring phenomenon when civilizations encounter each other. |
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