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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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by Mary Beard


  claims of Antony’s triumph at Alexandria 347

  display of conquest 201–2, 214, 290–91

  divine status of triumphing general 277, Pl. 9

  early triumphs 70,

  end of traditional triumph 373–4

  later imperial triumphs 481, 483, 504, 511–12, 512

  Octavian’s triumph 29 BCE 348–9, 349

  prisoner becomes triumphing general 238

  Trojan inheritance of Rome, War 27, 56, 74–6, 171–2, 206–7, 210, 213, 244

  Tullia, daughter of Cicero and Terentia 49, 302–3, 309–10, 311, 313, 314, 317–18, 429

  Twelve Tables 139, 141–45, 148–150, 151, 167

  importance in history of Roman law 141–2

  V

  Varus, Publius Quinctilius 480–81

  Veii, near Rome 157, 158

  destruction of (396 BCE) 137, 154–5

  ‘Flee to Veii’ 155–6, 408

  Vercingetorix 290

  Verres, Gaius 253–6, 257, 259, 264, 282, 307–8

  Vespasian, Emperor 388, 413, 414, 427, 428, 456, 511, 512, 515

  down to earth style 399, 432

  reputation for financial management 399, 404

  succession in civil war 417, 423

  Vestal Virgins 57–8, 103–4, 103, 118, 145, 155, 180, 207, 309

  Via Appia (Appian Way) 136, 248, 253, 409

  Vindolanda, Britain 490–91, 502

  Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) 376–7

  Aeneid 43, 75, 76, 77–8, 180, 213, 350, 351, 355, 369, 376–7, 484

  Eclogues (‘Selections’) 343

  Georgics 271

  imperial prophecy in Aeneid 193, 355, 481

  popular representations of Virgil 470–71

  Virginia (victim of Appius Claudius) 149–50, 151

  virtus 134, 135, 169, 182, 276

  Vivenna brothers, Aulus and Caelius 115–16

  Vulci, Etruria 95–6, 115

  François Tomb paintings 115–17, Pl. 7

  W

  Waldgirmes, Germany, half-built city 481, 482, 492

  warlords see private armies

  women

  assaults on women, see rape, in myths of early Rome; Terence, theme of rape

  child brides 311–12, 312

  dangers of childbirth 309, 310, 313–15, 329

  fantasy of ‘liberated’ women 305–7

  female ‘virtues’ 122–3, 122, 304–5

  in religion see Vestal Virgins

  inadequate representation in historical tradition passim

  lack of formal political rights 32, 188

  limited choice in marriage 309–11

  public role for women in imperial family 377–8

  relative independence compared with classical Greece 307–9

  worship of emperors 428–34

  see also religion, permeable boundary between humans and gods

  Z

  Zama, Battle of (202 BCE) 169–70, 212

  Zoilos, Gaius Julius 523–5

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