Christian Rollinger

Universität Trier · Department of History

We are happy to announce the publication of the third issue of the Journal of Historical Network Research (JHNR). JHNR publishes outstanding and original contributions which apply the theories and methodologies of social network analysis to historical research whilst respecting best practices in historical research. Articles in this issue cover t...

This paper posits that a change of mentality and of economic preferences among the higher orders of Roman society occurred in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome, in so far as the practice of receiving and giving loans and credit was concerned. The political changes that swept the Late Republic and that saw the establishment of the Principate b...

EMPERORS IN LATE ANTIQUITY - (D.W.P.) Burgersdijk, (A.J.) Ross (edd.) Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire. (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean 1.) Pp. xii + 353, colour ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €129, US$156. ISBN: 978-90-04-37089-0. - Volume 69 Issue 2 - Christian Rollinger

COURTS AND KINGS IN HELLENISTIC GREECE - (A.) ERSKINE, (L.) LLEWELLYN-JONES, (S.) WALLACE (edd.) The Hellenistic Court. Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra. Pp. xxx + 442, ills. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2017. Cased, £64. ISBN 978-1-910589-62-5. - Volume 69 Issue 1 - Christian Rollinger

THE CREDIT MARKET IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE - (F.) Lerouxel Le marché du crédit dans le monde romain (Égypte et Campanie). (Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 374.) Pp. viii + 397. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2016. Paper, €30. ISBN: 978-2-7283-1183-5. - Christian Rollinger

From the time of their creation under Augustus to the very end of Roman imperial power, a variety of guard units under the direct command of the emperors or his court officials acted in a number of roles ranging from military duties to ceremonial appearances in the service of representing imperial power. As with all guards throughout history, their...

Collaborative book project on classical receptions in and future scholarly and didactic applications of video games. Book proposal submitted to Bloomsbury Academic, publication in 2019.

During the last decade, ancient history has witnessed a slow but steady increase of publications applying to Greco-Roman history the concepts of social network analysis (SNA), a methodology originally developed in sociology but gradually picked up by other disciplines as well (including the Humanities and History). While initially mainly introducin...

Key Words: Cicero; friendship; late republic; aristocracy; social history; cultural history; letters; social practices. Abstract: While amicitia in both Cicero s philosophical works and the Letters has been the subject of intense scholarly interest, it is only recently that the significance of amicitia for Roman society at large has warranted crit...

A new, fully peer-reviewed, online open-access publication dedicated to historical research by means of theories and methodologies developed in social network analysis and network science, edited by Christian Rollinger (Trier), Robert Gramsch-Stehfest (Jena), Martin Stark (Aachen), and Marten Düring (Luxembourg), hosted and supported by the Univers...

Zusammenfassung Ciceros Wunsch nach einer supplicatio im Anschluss an sein kilikisches Prokonsulat ist bislang, von wenigen Ausnahmen abgesehen, kaum Beachtung geschenkt worden, die über eine gelegentliche Skizze im Rahmen biographischer Abhandlungen hinausgekommen wäre. Dabei zeigt aber gerade die Korrespondenz Ciceros während und unmittelbar nach...

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This paper deals with the aesthetic and sensory representation of ancient war and war-related violence in modern video games. Focusing on the well-known video game series “Total War” and those games set in ancient times (“Rome: Total War”, “Total War: Rome II”, “Total War: Attila”), the paper analyses the strategies employed by game developers to p...

(Article in German) This paper focuses on the reception of antiquity within a medium previously not held worthy of a detailed scientific analysis in classical scholarship, i.e. computer and video games. After narrowing the field of investigation to the relatively small genre of ‘city simulations’ (and, of course, particularly those proclaiming to s...

Soziale Beziehungen und die daraus entstehenden Netzwerke sind eine Konstante der Menschheitsgeschichte, die sozialen wie auch politischen Wandel ermöglicht. So ist der »Arabische Frühling« ohne die Berücksichtigung von Zusammenschlüssen sozialer Einheiten nicht vorstellbar. Die relationale Wissenschaft legt ihren Fokus auf solche Beziehungsstruktu...

Wer sich im Latein- oder Geschichtsunterricht je mit der Briefsammlung Ciceros beschäftigt hat, ist über dessen persönliche Umstände, Familiengeschichte und Vermögenssituation besser informiert, als über jede andere Persönlichkeit der römischen Antike. Abwechselnd jubilierend, dann wieder klagend, berichtet Cicero von Hauskäufen oder seiner Kunstsa...