Find more facts and information on our topic page about
Antonines
Antonine Wall
A Dictionary of British History
|
2004
|
|
© A Dictionary of British History 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information)
Copyright
Antonine Wall The second and more northerly of the two walls constructed across northern Britain by the Romans in the 2nd cent. On the death of
Hadrian in AD 138 his successor Antoninus Pius reoccupied Scotland up to the Forth–Clyde line. Following the example of his predecessor he had a linear barrier constructed, running from the Forth, west of modern Edinburgh, to the Clyde, west of modern Glasgow. Only half the length (37 miles) of Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall was constructed of turf on a stone base.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...innovator, such an erudite and experienced historian as Grant might have been expected to give a fresher view of this important period. Though it always gives good value, The Antonines lacks the punch of some of Grant's earlier work.
|
|
The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
|
|
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...eighteenth century had reached a point of stability and definition comparable to that of the Roman Empire in the Age of the Antonines: 'The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by a common religion and by the Royal Navy. The gentle, but powerful...
|
|
Historical footnote: letter to 'Wild Bill.'
Magazine article from: The Nation; 5/4/1985; ; 696 words
; ...their personal conduct, the general system of Augustus was equally adopted and uniformly pursued by Hadrian and by the two Antonines. They persisted in the design of maintaining the dignity of the empire, without attempting to enlarge its limits. By every...
|
|
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 1/28/1999; 700+ words
; ...peace of our times. Emperor Decius, 250 years after Caesar Augustus, pondered ``the general causes that since the time of Antonines (Augustus) had so impetuously urged the decline of the Roman greatness. He soon discovered that it was impossible to replace...
|
|
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781-1997 BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 11/22/2008; ; 401 words
; ...with the idea of subject races." For Indians, in hindsight, he believed, British rule "might well be the age of the Antonines." ** Full version of these reviews, and more book news, are available on the Web. * [Accompanied by image of the book...
|
|
That colossal wreck
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/2/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Ghaznavids, the Timurids and the Moghuls made their Christian contemporaries feel like barbarians contemplating Rome under the Antonines. There is no excuse for people like bin Laden, Mullah Omar or Gulbuddin Hekhmatyar to pervert a culture that has produced...
|
|
|
The triumph of the Eurocrats Europe at 50
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 3/24/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Europeans seem so restless, resentful and downright ungrateful about this golden age to rival Gibbon's ''golden age of the Antonines.'' The resentment has been expressed in the French and Dutch votes against the proposed European Constitution two years...
|
|
|
Theodosius: The Empire at Bay. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
|
|
|
The Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Readers depressed by this pessimism may be pleasantly surprised that almost exactly two centuries after the last of the Antonines was killed, a Roman emperor routed his enemies and became undisputed master of an empire whose boundaries were almost unchanged...
|
|
Antonines
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Antonines , collective name of certain Roman emperors of the 2d cent., namely Antoninus Pius ; his adopted sons, Marcus Aurelius and Verus; and Commodus .
|
|
Eudemus of Rhodes
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Eudemus ’ name, but the significance of the title, which is first attested by Atticus Platonicus in the age of the Antonines, is still an open question, complicated by the fact that books IV-VI are identical with books V-VII of the Nicomachean...
|
|
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The History of the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...defined by the author in the preface, according to a plan that expanded during composition: from the age of Trajan and the Antonines to the subversion of the western Empire; from the reign of Justinian in the East to the establishment of the second or German...
|
|
Walter Horatio Pater
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...philosophical novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), which traces the spiritual evolution of a young Roman in the time of the Antonines as he comes under the influence, successively, of Cyrenaic philosophy, the stoicism of Marcus Aurelius, and the ardor...
|
|
|
Roman art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...idealization of the Augustan style and at the same time a growing sense of voluptuousness. Major works from the later period of the Antonines (138-192) are the column and the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (Rome). From the time of Caracalla to the death...
|
