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Los protagonistas de nuestra historia son los emperadores Galba (8 de junio de 68 – 15 de enero de 69) y Nerva (18 de septiembre de 96 - ¿27? de enero de 98), que llegaron al poder tras un exitoso «golpe de Estado». El primero, cuando tras capitalizar el levantamiento de Julio Vindex en las Galias, fue reconocido emperador por el Senado, que poco antes había declarado «enemigo público» a Nerón, el último representante de la dinastía Julio-Claudia, que, antes del escarnio público, optó por un suicidio «asistido». El segundo, tras el complot de palacio que terminó con la vida de Domiciano, el último representante de otra dinastía, la Flavia. Los dos entraron en escena no cuando el reinado de sus predecesores evolucionó hacia un régimen tiránico, ya que esto es, como se verá, una construcción historiográfica a posteriori para justificar el magnicidio, y, sobre todo, la presencia en el trono del fundador de la siguiente dinastía, que no fue ninguno de nuestros protagonistas, sino Vespasiano y Trajano respectivamente. En realidad, ambos fueron elegidos cuando no se pudo garantizar el principio de sucesión dinástica por la falta de descendientes directos, ni Nerón ni Domiciano tuvieron hijos. La perspectiva de un vacío de poder era la coyuntura más apropiada para que los actores que estaban en la cúspide del Estado iniciasen el juego político para sentar en el trono a su candidato. Era necesario frenar tales enfrentamientos que podrían terminar en una guerra civil, para ello se echó mano de dos figuras que, por su pedigrí, avanzada edad y falta de descendencia, eran perfectas para un «compás de espera». Fueron dos emperadores de transición y quizá por esto la Historia no los ha recordado ni por ser «buenos príncipes» ni por todo lo contrario, sencillamente fueron «príncipes necesarios», y esta es su historia.Pepa Castillo Pascual es Profesora de Historia Antigua en la Universidad de la Rioja. Es doctora en Historia Antigua por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y en Filología Clásica por la Universidad del País Vasco. Amplió sus estudios en la Universidad de Heidelberg (Alemania) y entre los años 2009 y 2019 formó parte del proyecto Excellence Cluster Topoi, con sede en la Universidad Libre de Berlín. Su ámbito de investigación es la historia de Roma, destacando sus estudios sobre el modelo romano de ordenación del territorio o los ríos navegables como elementos clave de este modelo; la recepción del mundo clásico en las artes escénicas y visuales, formando parte del grupo de investigación internacional IMAGINES; y, por último, el patrimonio histórico-arqueológico riojano. Su producción científica se han desarrollado en todos estos ámbitos. Esta monografía recoge, en parte, los resultados de su segunda tesis doctoral, realizada en el Departamento de Estudios Clásicos de la Universidad del País Vasco dentro del programa de doctorado “Ciencias de la Antigüedad”.

This two-volume set LNCS 14465-14466 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2023, held in Isola delle Femmine, Palermo, Italy, in September 2023. The 31 full papers, 7 short papers, presented together with 2 invited talks, and one contest report, were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 100 submissions. The abstracts of 11 posters presented at the conference can be found in the back matter of the volume. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: beyond planarity; crossing numbers; linear layouts; geometric aspects; visualization challenges; graph representations; graph decompositions; topological aspects; parameterized complexity for drawings; planar graphs; frameworks; algorithmics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking, MLN 2023, held in Paris, France, during November 28–30, 2023. The 18 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The conference aims at providing a top forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss new trends in machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition and optimization for network architectures and services.

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This volume explores human migration, communication, and cross-cultural exchange on the Silk Road, a complex network of trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent and beyond. It covers thousands of years of human history, from the 3rd millennium BCE to the early 2nd millennium CE.Consolidating archaeological discoveries, historical analyses, and linguistic studies in one comprehensive volume, The World of the Ancient Silk Road brings to light diverse perspectives from scholars who have lived and worked across this vast region, many of which are published here in English for the first time. It contains extensive references of primary and secondary sources in their original languages and scripts. From Early Bronze Age cultures to the rise of regional Islamic empires, from the Mediterranean to the Yellow River basin, this multidisciplinary volume seeks to offer new insights and expand Silk Road studies to the Anglophone world.The World of the Ancient Silk Road provides an essential reference work for students and scholars of world history, particularly those studying the regions, cultures, and peoples explored in this volume.

The most comprehensive reference work on Tacitus published in English The Tacitus Encyclopedia is the only complete reference of its kind in the field of Tacitean studies. Spanning two volumes, this unprecedented resource contains more than 1,000 entries covering every person and place named in all extant works of Roman historian and politician Tacitus (c. 56-120 CE). Written by an international collaboration of diverse contributors, the entries contextualize individuals and places named in Tacitus and show their relationship to the larger Tacitean corpus. Alphabetized and cross-referenced entries contain general descriptions and background information of items as they appear in the texts, citations to ancient sources and relevant scholarship, and suggested readings. Designed to be a starting point for further research, the Encyclopedia also includes 165 key concepts topics related to the study of Tacitus, including ancient historiography, history, social history, gender and sexuality, literary criticism, ancient authors, reception, and material culture. Providing readers with an expansive view of the contents of Tacitus, this invaluable reference: Covers approximately 1,000 individuals and 400 regions, cities, towns, and geographical and topological features Provides readers of all levels with an accessible entry point to Tacitus's Annals, Histories, Agricola, Germania, and Dialogue on Orators Explores a broad range of topics such as gender, slavery, literary history, and the reigns of individual emperors Treats the scholarship and reception of Tacitus from antiquity to the present Discusses scholarly trends, current methodology, and future directions of Tacitean studiesAvailable in print and online, The Tacitus Encyclopedia is a must-have resource for students and academics in the fields of history, historiography, classics, art history, social sciences, European intellectual history, archaeology, and Roman studies.

The book explores the hitherto rarely discussed connection of magic with politics in the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus, offering insight into the way language of magic and ritual pollution is used as means of characterization and historiosophical commentary on the nature of power and political struggle. Religious deviation and innovation, theurgy, necromancy, black and erotic magic, the topoi of an emperor-magician, a semi-divine emperor-healer/saviour and a witch/poisoner, all play an important role in the analyzed texts. Magic is depicted as a way of abusing the official state religion; every such abuse disturbs pax deorum and brings misery on both the perpetrator and the whole state.

The late first- and early second-century Roman senator and historian Cornelius Tacitus, whom Edward Gibbon described as “the first of the historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts,” shaped the development of the modern understanding of history as a crucial vehicle for social analysis. The breadth of his thinking is fully revealed only through analysis of how the political, geographical, and rhetorical theories expounded in his early works influenced his later narrative of the evolution of the Roman monarchy. Tacitus, who was one of the oratorical luminaries of his time, produced a collection of works widely recognized as offering the most authoritative account of Rome's early imperial history. His oeuvre traditionally is divided into the so-called minor and major works. Writing Imperial History offers the first comprehensive analysis of Tacitus'five texts and their interconnections and serves to confront longstanding assumptions that have led to a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and development of his oeuvre and historical thinking. Tracing many of the enduring themes and concerns that Tacitus explores across his works, the book shows how the vision articulated in his earlier texts persists in his later ones and how he used the former as sources for the latter.

Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author's name and characteristic keywords in their title. Volume LXXXIV (2015) mentions works published with the date 2015, in thirty-five languages (in order of appearance: Italian, French, Latin, Hebrew, Romanian, English, German, Castilian, Spanish, Dutch, Persian, Hungarian, Swedish, Latvian, Arab, Portuguese, Serbian, Finnish, Danish, Slovak, Polish, Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Catalan, Czech, Lithuanian, Chinese, Korean, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kurdish). The large Editorial Board of IBHS is interdisciplinary and multinational, reflecting the composition of the research community the journal will serve. This breadth of languages ​​and countries represented is an important sign of continuity in a publication characterized since from its origins by a broad sight and a collective work.

Dieses Fachlexikon ist ein bisher einmaliges Nachschlagewerk zum altsprachlichen Unterricht. Es verbindet erstmals Latinistik, Gräzistik und altsprachliche Fachdidaktik konsequent miteinander und integriert Erkenntnisse anderer für den Latein- und Griechischunterricht wichtiger Disziplinen. Zahlreiche namhafte Autor:innen aus Universität, Lehrerbildung und Schule behandeln in 110 Lemmata die zentralen Themen des altsprachlichen Unterrichts. Dazu zählen Bildungsziele, Digitalisierung, Sprach- und Lektüreunterricht, Übersetzung und Wortschatzarbeit, aber auch Artikel zu allen gängigen Schulautoren auf dem neuesten Stand fachwissenschaftlicher und fachdidaktischer Forschung. Ausführliche Literaturangaben ergänzen jedes Lemma, ein detailliertes Register mit zusätzlichen Schlagwörtern erleichtert die Detailsuche. Das Lexikon bietet Lehramtsstudierenden, Referendar:innen und Lehrer:innen der Fächer Griechisch und Latein Informationen und Hilfe bei der Unterrichtsvorbereitung zu allen wichtigen Themen ihres Fachs.

The historical memory of the principate is for obvious reasons dominated by the emperors, with one exception: Germanicus Caesar, who, though not a ruler, appears in the sources as if he had been one. Chosen by Augustus as his ultimate heir, the embodiment of the dynastic principle, yet never the emperor; put at the head of one third of the Roman army to reconquer Germania, but recalled before the task's completion; the last to hold an imperium which made him almost a co-regent of the emperor, cut short by his sudden death – he reflects like no one the transition of the principate from the Augustan phase to its mature form. Equally significant is the longevity of the memory of his person and the variety of ways in which it was expressed: the only non-emperor commemorated in the Feriale Duranum, he figures on coins struck long after the end of the Julio-Claudians and an edict of his, quoted in a legal text of the 3rd century, appears in the Digesta. To give justice to his memorability, our contributions approach him in the perspective of not only history, classical philology, art history/archaeology and numismatics, but also Egyptology and Roman law.

Das lukanische Doppelwerk ist kein einheitliches Buch, sondern ein vieldiskutiertes Problem. Die Studie verfolgt die lebhafte Diskursgeschichte vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die aktuellen Debatten. Vor diesem Horizont untersucht sie die antike Wahrnehmung des lukanischen Clusters: den textgeschichtlichen Befund, die Rezeption bis Johannes Chrysostomos und Arator, die kanonische Verortung. Eingehend analysiert sie das narrative und theologische Verhältnis zwischen'Lukasevangelium'und'Apostelgeschichte'. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der derzeit mit den Mitteln der computergestützten Stilometrie angefochtenen Verfassereinheit und auf Gestalt und Funktion der lukanischen Schriften in den von Markion geprägten Kontroversen. Die Gattungskritik erschließt die mediale Innovation der Verbindung zweier komplementärer Monographien. Abschließend zeichnet die Studie die unterschiedlichen Gedächtnisfunktionen des Schriftenverbunds für die Ausprägung des Geschichtsbilds nach (frühchristliche Schwellenzeit, großkirchliche Sattelzeit, Kanon). Zwischen Jesus-Bios und Jüngergeschichte formt und wandelt sich das Selbstverständnis der werdenden Kirche. In seiner perspektivischen Breite stellt der Band die Doppelwerkforschung auf eine neue Grundlage.

The IJBF is the only regularly published, truly international, Festschrift bibliography. Since 1983, more than 880,000 articles from more than 39,000 Festschriften, published between 1977 and 2020, have been catalogued.