Caesar praised them in his "Commentaries." Trajan had them carved on his Column. Hadrian wrote poems about them. Well might these rulers have immortalized the horse guard, whose fortunes so closely kept pace with their own. "Riding for Caesar" follows these horsemen from their rally to rescue Caesar at Noviodunum in 52 B.C. to their last stand alongside Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. It offers a colorful picture of these horsemen in all their ...

The extraordinary richness of ancient Rome was a recurring inspiration to writers, artists, scholars, and architects in sixteenth-century France. This engrossing book explores the ways in which the perception of Rome as a physical and symbolic entity stimulated intellectual endeavor across the disciplines.<P>Examining work by writers such as Du Bellay, Grevin, Montaigne, and Gamier, and by architects and artists such as Philibert de L'Orme ...

Contents: The Chaldeans; Sketch of the History of Chaldean Astronomy and Its Influence Upon the Religion; Babylonia and Greece; Dissemination in the West; Power of Astrology; Hermetic Books; Israel and Astrology; The Oriental Mysteries; Theology; Sacred Numbers; The Sun as the Highest God; Development of Solar Theology; Astral Mysticism Ethics and Cult; Mystic Element in Astral Religion; Cosmic Emotion; Eschatology; Astral Mysticism as a ...

Lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation. The author was invited to lecture at New Haven during the month of March 1921 on a subject relating to religious history. He chose the ideas current in Roman paganism concerning the lot of the soul after death. Lectures included are: historical introduction; after life in the tomb; the nether world; celestial immortality; winning of immortality; untimely death; journey to the ...

This literary work takes the reader on a tour of significant Roman churches. Contents: the fate of Pagan temples and of their artistic treasures under the rule of Christian emperors; the Constantinian Basilica of Saint Peter; the Basilica Ostiensis; the Basilica Salvatoris; the Church of the Holy Cross; the minor Constantinian churches. Includes spectacular photographs of many churches, sculptures, and architecture. ...

Derived from a study of coins, monuments, calendars, aeras and astronomical and astrological cycles, the whole establishing a new chronology and survey of history and religion. Contents: cycle of the eclipses; ancient year of ten months; Ludi Seculars and Olympiads; astrology of the divine year; Jovian Cycle and worship; various years of the incarnation; aeras; cycles; chronological problems and solutions; Maetho's false chronology; forgeries in ...

Being the first seven chapters of the work entitled "The Beginnings of Christianity" written by Professor Fisher. In the preface, he states this work is an attempt to describe the ancient Roman world, including both heathen and Jewish society, into which Christianity entered, and in which it first established itself. These chapters, standing alone, constitute a historical introduction to the study of the Apostolic Age. ...

Sohm's book presents a uniform systematic and historical exposition of the elements of Roman private law. While leaving intact the advantages secured by the present system, it introduces a new element into the legal studies of the English-speaking world. ...

In the main derived from the Hebrew nation and the law of Moses, the primitive religion of the city of Rome, a historical investigation. This work contains an investigation instituted for the purpose of recovering the knowledge of an all important fact of history from the long obscurity under which it had lain, its existence having been on the whole rather suspected than openly avowed. ...

Contents: pagan piety in the Graeco-Roman world; greater mysteries at Eleusis; Dionysian excesses; Orphic reform; regenerative rites of the great mother; death & rebirth in Mithraism; Isiac initiation; new birth experience in Hermeticism; mysticism of Philo; social significance of mystery initiation. ...