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How did the ancient Greeks and Romans conceptualise order? This book answers that question by analysing the formative concept of kosmos ('order', 'arrangement', 'ornament') in ancient literature, philosophy, science, art, and religion. This concept encouraged the Greeks and Romans to develop theories to explain core aspects of human life, including nature, beauty, society, politics, the individual, and what lies beyond human experience. Hence, Greek kosmos, and its Latin correlate mundus, are subjects of profound reflection by a wide range of important ancient figures, including philosophers (Parmenides, Empedocles, the Pythagoreans, Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus), poets and playwrights (Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plautus, Marcus Argentarius, Nonnus), intellectuals (Gorgias, Protagoras, Varro), and religious exegetes (Philo, the Gospel Writers, Paul). By revealing kosmos in its many ancient manifestations, this book asks us to rethink our own sense of 'order', and to reflect on our place within a broader cosmic history.

Cosmology, Ancient. --- Philosophy of nature --- Roman history --- History of ancient Greece

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How has our relationship with 'work' changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had on politics, art and religion?In a work that spans 2,500 years these ambitious questions are addressed by 63 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. With the help of a broad range of case material they illustrate broad trends and nuances of the culture of work in Western culture from antiquity to the present. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. -- Provided by publisher

World history --- Labor --- Labor. --- Arbeit --- Kultur --- History. --- History of ancient Greece --- Roman history --- History of Europe --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Travail --- Work --- Histoire --- History --- Arbeit. --- Kultur. --- Histoire.

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This study is the first comprehensive treatment of the provincial allocations system in the late Roman Republic, between the provincial law carried by Gaius Gracchus in 123 BCE and that carried by Pompeius Magnus in 52 BCE. It considers the actual process of allocations, from the Senate's decree of consular and praetorian provinces through to the transfer of command on the ground. Different chapters address the system of allotment (sortitio), the authorisation of troops and funds (ornatio), and the ritual prerequisites for departure, all based solidly on the surviving evidence. An appendix recording the Senate's year-by-year decisions supports this and allows us to see trends in the data.0Since provincial questions were of central importance to the senatorial class, they were the source of many of the political contests which dominate our source record. And at every stage, the institutions shaped the politics. A new picture emerges, of structural conflicts revolving around the relationship between consuls and tribunes. As Rafferty argues, this made the provincial allocations system one of the central causes of Rome's growing political dysfunction in the late Republic.

Roman provinces --- Roman law --- Administration. --- Rome. --- Rome --- Politics and government --- Politics and government. --- Administration --- History. --- 265-30 B.C. --- Rome (Empire). --- History --- Provinz --- Verwaltung --- Geschichte 123 v. Chr.-52 v. Chr. --- Römisches Reich --- (Produktform)Electronic book text --- Ancient history --- Classics --- Roman Republic --- Roman history --- (VLB-WN)9553 --- Öffentliche Verwaltung --- Staatsverwaltung --- Verwalten --- Verwaltungssystem --- Öffentlicher Dienst --- Provinzen --- Gliedstaat --- Verwaltungseinheit --- Imperium Romanum --- Reich Rom --- Italien --- Antike --- Römerzeit --- Römer --- v753-500 --- Geschichte 753 v. Chr.-500