Routledge, 2001. — 202 p. The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire. Yet few people have questioned just how the Romans - both military and civilians - travelled, or examined their geographical understanding in an era which offered a greatly increased potential for moving around,...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 346 p. The papyri of Egypt offer a rich and complex picture of this important Roman province and provide an unparalleled insight into how a Roman province actually worked. They also afford a valuable window into ancient economic behaviour and everyday life. This study is the first systematic treatment of the role of land transport within the...
University of Texas Press, 2011. — 284 p. With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centred on the ways in which ancient Roman historians consciously or unconsciously denigrated non-Romans. Similarly, contemporary scholars have downplayed...
Teaching Company Press, 2019. — 276 p. In 31 BCE, on an otherwise unremarkable afternoon in the Mediterranean, the Roman general Octavian surveyed the aftermath of the ferocious Battle of Actium, where he’d defeated his rival Mark Antony in a war for control of Rome. This moment, in which a military leader rests and reflects on his next move toward becoming the sole leader of...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 488 p. This study uses artefact distribution analyses to investigate the activities that took place inside early Roman imperial military bases. Focusing especially on non-combat activities, it explores the lives of families and other support personnel who are widely assumed to have inhabited civilian settlements outside the fortification...
Routledge, 1995. — 272 p. The province of Egypt provides unique archaeological and documentary evidence for the study of the Roman army. In this fascinating social history Richard Alston examines the economic, cultural, social and legal aspects of a military career, illuminating the life and role of the individual soldier in the army.Soldier and Society in Roman Eygpt provides...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. — 176 p. Law is a particularly fruitful means by which to investigate the relationship between religion and state. It is the mechanism by which the Roman state and its European successors have regulated religion, in the twin actions of constraining religious institutions to particular social spaces and of releasing control over such spaces to those...
University of California Press, 2000. — 520 p. The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical...
Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013. — 412 p. In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by its size, stretching from Scotland to Kuwait, from the Sahara to the North Sea. What was life...
Golden House Publications, 2004. — 198 p. Accompanying an exhibition held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from September 2004 to May 2005, this volume contains more than one hundred objects which reflect the earliest episode of Egyptomania. Sally-Ann Ashton explores the Egyptian objects that were taken to and received in Italy and how this spawned a tradition of copying...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 242 p. If poor individuals have always been with us, societies have not always seen the poor as a distinct social group. But within the Roman world, from at least the Late Republic onwards, the poor were an important force in social and political life and how to treat the poor was a topic of philosophical as well as political discussion. This...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 412 p. Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds, while its uniquely fertile lands helped to feed the imperial capitals at Rome and then Constantinople. The cultural and religious landscape of Egypt today owes much to...
London – New York: Routledge, 2000. – 544 p. ISBN 0-415-11376-8 (Print Edition) ISBN 0-203-02322-6 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-14202-0 (Glassbook Format) In this lavishly illustrated and arresting study, Warwick Ball presents the story of Romeʼs overwhelming fascination with the East through a coverage of the historical, architectural and archaeological evidence unparalleled...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2016. — 594 p. This new edition of Rome in the East expands on the seminal work of the first edition, and examines the lasting impact of the near Eastern influence on Rome on our understanding of the development of European culture. Warwick Ball explores modern issues as well as ancient, and overturns conventional ideas about the spread of European...
Pen & Sword Military, 2017. — 214 p. This book gives an account of the Roman relationship with Persia and how it was shaped by the actions of Alexander the Great long before the events. Numerous Roman emperors led armies eastward against the Persians, seeking to emulate or exceed the glorious conquests of Alexander. Some achieved successes but more often the result was...
Tubingen, 1898. — VII, 594 s. Diese hervorragende und umfassende populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung (der 2. Auflage, Tübingen 1893) des römischen Lebens im Altertum widerspiegelt in 11 Kapiteln, durch zahlreiche Tafeln und Textabbildungen unterstützt, alle sozialen und sittlichen Verhältnisse des Imperium Romanum. Da der Autor auf primäre Quellen zurückgreift, erhält der...
Brill Academic, 2012. — 211 p. Fergus Millar’s works have renewed our approach of the Roman world. He had studied the functioning of the Roman Empire in the perspective of the Emperor’s activities, from Augustus to Constantine; as well as the Republic during the last two centuries BC in order to revalue the people within the institutions; and finally the Near East from Augustus...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 223 p. Bread was the staple of the ancient Mediterranean diet. It was present in the meals of emperors and on the tables of the poorest households. In many instances, a loaf of bread probably constituted an entire meal. As such, bread was both something that unified society and a milieu through which social and ethnic divisions played out. Similarly,...
Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, 1985. — 278 p. This work is principally an account of excavations carried out at Vindolanda in 1980 but also reviews the available evidence for the history of the fort and vicus. Early timber forts were succeeded by a stone fort in the Hadrianic period, perhaps in c. 122-4. Reconstruction of some interior buildings were...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. – 546 p. ISBN: 0-19-925237-8 978-0-19-925237-4 The Roman Government of Britain is a completely rewritten version of Professor Birley's Fasti of Roman Britain (1981), with biographical entries for all higher officials from AD 43 to 409. Several new governors, legionary legates, tribunes, procurators, and fleet prefects are included, and...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 455 p. Between the Roman annexation of Egypt and the Arab period, the Nile Delta went from consisting of seven branches to two, namely the current Rosetta and Damietta branches. For historians, this may look like a slow process, but on a geomorphological scale, it is a rather fast one. How did it happen? How did human action contribute to the...
Brill, 2021. — 635 p. Dialogangebote. Die Anrede des Kaisers jenseits der offiziellen Titulatur bietet eine Analyze der sog. inoffiziellen Titulaturen römischer Kaiser in ihren thematischen, medialen, funktionalen und sozialen Kontexten. Dialogangebote. Die Anrede des Kaisers jenseits der offiziellen Titulatur studies the so-called unofficial titulature of Roman emperors in...
London: Future Publishing, 2019. — 132 p. — (Part of the All about History: Special Issue). The fighting had stopped. Years of civil war, death and betrayal had ended, and one man emerged victorious from the fray. The adopted son of the once-great Julius Caesar was bestowed the title of Augustus by the Senate, and he ushered in a new era of rule: the Roman Empire. In All About...
Harvard University Press, 1983. — 224 p. The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, northwest Saudi Arabia, and the Negev. Mr. Bowersock's book is the first authoritative history of the region from the fourth century B.C. to the age of Constantine. The book opens with the arrival of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 397 p. Panthee presents a collective reflection relating to the changes affecting the Graeco-Roman Empire and its religious landscapes. Leading specialists construct a picture of practices and conceptual frames, which, in their diversity and inter-action, model a religious universe whose complexity will help understand our modern globalising...
Routledge, 1996. — 368 p. The Roman Remains of Southern France is the only specialist guidebook to this region available. It is the result of the most up-to-date research. Comprehensive in coverage, it provides depth and context while evoking the distinctive atmosphere of the place. The book is easy to use, with a large number of maps, site plans and photographs and it will...
Oxford Clarendon Press, 2001. — 551 p. The Roman empire, unlike the British, evoked no national resistance except from the Jews. This collection of essays by eminent historian professor P.A. Brunt critically examines various aspects of Roman history, from Roman aspirations to world dominion to Rome's success in winning the loyalty and acquiescence of its subjects. Two...
Chelsea House Publications, 2009. - 159 p. - (Great Empires of the Past). The influence of the Roman Empire has been widespread and profound, perhaps more so than that of any other empire or civilization. Rome laid the foundation for many of the institutions and ideas in the modern Western world, including the common political and legal systems. Roman ruins can still be found...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 481 p. The Neokoroi, or 'temple-wardens,' were Hellenized cities of the eastern Roman empire who received that title for possessing their provinces' temples to the living emperor. This work collects and analyzes all the evidence for the neokoroi, including their coins and inscriptions, contemporary and subsequent historical texts, and the...
Brill, 2019. — 121 p. Across 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from Spain to Syria and from the North Sea to North Africa. This study analyzes the debate over Roman imperialism from ancient times to the present.
The British Museum Press, 2003. — 470 p. The provinces that the Romans referred to as Syria covered a vast area occupied today by several modern states. These included some of the most spectacular ruins of the ancient world-Palmyra, Baalbek, and Apamea-and fabled cities such as Antioch, Damascus, Sidon, and Tyre. Roman Syria also comprised sites that are virtually unknown, such...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2019. — 388 p. In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and Ammianus Marcellinus. This inter-imperial borderland between the Roman...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2019. — 388 p. In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland , Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and Ammianus Marcellinus. This inter-imperial borderland between the Roman...
Tempus, 2001. — 176 p. The two German provinces of the Roman Empire, Germania Superior and Germania Inferior formed a vital link between the Mediterranean and the North Sea. Maureen Carroll synthesis of past and recent archaeological research introduces readers to the main features of the Roman Empire in these provinces. It deals with the pre-Roman societies and their...
Abingdon Press, 2006. — 160 p. An indispensable introduction to Roman society, culture, law, politics, religion, and daily life as they relate to the study of the New Testament.The Roman Empire formed the central context in which the New Testament was written. Anyone who wishes to understand the New Testament texts must become familiar with the political, economic, societal,...
Archaeo Press, 2018. — 243 p. Over the last decades, discussions about the functions of the Roman army in frontier areas have contributed to a complex understanding of the military and its interactions with local geographies and peoples throughout the Empire. Nevertheless, in the region of Arabia, there is still little consensus about the purpose of the Roman military presence,...
Amsterdam University Press, 2019. — 257 p. This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix. These four medical writers, whose translation into Latin of precious Greek texts has been hailed as ‘the...
Dorset Press, 1985. — 216 p. For centuries Britain’s Roman past has been a source of continuing fascination for ordinary people as well as for historians, antiquarians, and archaeologists. In modern times knowledge of and interest in Roman Britain have increased enormously; new discoveries of sites and objects are constantly being made, which adds to the excitement of a subject...
Routledge, 2005. — 183 p. Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities, as well as expecting leading citizens to pay for 'bread and circuses' - free food and public entertainment. This collection of essays by leading scholars from the UK and USA explores the important phenomenon of benefaction and public patronage in Roman Italy....
Brill, 2017. — 221 p. This volume explores the nature of religious change in the Greek-speaking cities of the Roman Empire. Emphasis is put on those developments that apparently were not the direct result of Roman actions: the intensification of idiosyncratically Greek features in the religious life of the cities (Heller, Muñiz, Camia); the active role of a new kind of...
Fonthill Media, 2019. — 656 p. The Roman Empire was a spectacular polity of unprecedented scale which stretched from Scotland to Sudan and from Portugal to Persia. It survived for over 500 years in the west and 1,480 years in the east. Ruling it was a task of frightening complexity; few emperors made a good fist of it, yet thanks to dynastic connections, an efficient...
Fonthill Media, 2019. — 656 p. The Roman Empire was a spectacular polity of unprecedented scale which stretched from Scotland to Sudan and from Portugal to Persia. It survived for over 500 years in the west and 1,480 years in the east. Ruling it was a task of frightening complexity; few emperors made a good fist of it, yet thanks to dynastic connections, an efficient...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2012. — 608 p. The complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force, by an award-winning historian. In this landmark publication, Stephen Dando-Collins does what no other author has ever attempted to do: provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion. Based on thirty years of meticulous research, he covers...
Peeters Publishers, 1997. — 408 p. The Flavian Dynasty is perhaps best known for its vast construction program on the city of Rome, intended to restore the capital from the damage it had suffered during the Great Fire of 64, and the civil war of 69. Vespasian added the temple of Peace and the temple to the deified Claudius. In 75, a colossal statue of Apollo, begun under Nero...
Brill, 2019. — xii + 208 p. — (Impact of Empire, Vol. 35). In Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire , Sarah Davies explores how the Roman Republic evolved, in ideological terms, into an Empire without end. This work stands out within imperialism studies by placing an emphasis on the role of international-level norms in shaping Roman imperium.
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021. — 222 p. — ISBN13: 978-1789694024. Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean is devoted to the viticulture of two settlements, Antiochia ad Cragum and Delos, using results stemming from surface survey and excavation to assess their potential integration within the now well-known agricultural boom of the 5th-7th...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 270 p. Die Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR), das Standardwerk für die Personenkunde der römischen Kaiserzeit, wurde von Mommsen begründet und erstmal 1897/98 publiziert. Die zweite Auflage wurde seit 1926 erarbeitet, allerdings erst im Jahr 2015 nach mehr als 90 Jahren abgeschlossen - in Folge der wechselvollen deutschen Geschichte. Im Oktober 2016...
Lund University Press, 2009. — 314 p. This book deals with the transformation of imported Roman vessels in Germania Magna during the Roman Iron Age, 1-400 CE. The concept of transformation in this context refers to the various ways these objects were interpreted, physically altered and consequently changed with regard to their function and meaning. Roman vessels in Germanic...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 240 p. The Roman Conquests series seeks to explain when and how the Romans were able to conquer a vast empire stretching from the foothills of the Scottish Highlands to the Sahara Desert, from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. How did their armies adapt to and overcome the challenges of widely varied enemies and terrain? In this volume, Dr Simon...
The History Press, 2016. — 224 p. The Roman war machine comprised land and naval forces. Although the former has been studied extensively, less has been written and understood about the naval forces of the Roman empire and, in particular, the regional navies which actively participated in most military operations and policed the seas and rivers of the Empire. Until the...
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1996. — ix, 150 p. : ill., maps. With its succinct analysis of the overriding issues and detailed case-studies based on the latest archaeological research, this social and economic study of Roman Imperial frontiers is essential reading. Too often the frontier has been represented as a simple linear boundary. The reality, argues Dr. Elton, was rather a...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 304 p. Defined by borders both physical and conceptual, the Roman city stood apart as a concentration of life and activity that was legally, economically, and ritually divided from its rural surroundings. Death was a key area of control, and tombs were relegated outside city walls from the Republican period through Late Antiquity. Given this...
University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 264 p. In the second century A.D., Corinth was the largest city in Roman Greece. A center of learning, culture, and commerce, it served as the capital of the senatorial province of Achaea and was the focus of apostle Paul's missionary activity. Donald Engels's important revisionist study of this ancient urban area is at once a detailed...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 646 p. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome offers thirty-one original essays by leading historians, classicists and archaeologist on the largest metropolis of the Roman Empire. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are famous features of the Roman capital, Rome is addressed in this volume primarily as a city in which many...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 380 p. Paul Erdkamp illustrates how entitlement to food in Roman society was dependent on relations with the emperor, his representatives and the landowning aristocracy, and local rulers controlling the towns and hinterlands. He assesses the response of the Roman authorities to weaknesses in the grain market and looks at the implications of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 208 p. Debates and documents on Ancient History is a series of a short books on central topic in Greek and Roman history. The works in the series are written by expert academics and provide up-to-day and accessible accounts of the historical issues and problems raised by each topic. They also contain the important evidence on which the...
Cambridge – New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. – 306 p. – (Greek Culture in the Roman World). ISBN 978-1-107-02638-4 This book examines the role of social networks in the formation of identity among sophists, philosophers, and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Membership in each category was established and evaluated socially as well as discursively. From clashes...
Routledge, 2008. — 171 p. Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees, and for its surrounding people the Convenae. The book opens with the creation of the Convenae by Pompey the Great in the first century B.C. and runs down to the great Frankish siege in...
Head of Zeus, 2014. — 343 p. SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus. A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world. Do you know to what use the Romans put the excrement of the kingfisher? Or why a dinner party invitation from the emperor Domitian was such a terrifying prospect? Or why Roman women smelt so odd? The answers to these...
Random House, 2012. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-1400066636. From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the...
The History Press, 2013. — 224 p. The artists of ancient Rome portrayed the barbarian enemies of the Empire in sculpture, reliefs, metalwork and jewellery. This study of these images tells the reader much about the barbarians, about Roman art and about the Romans' view of themselves. Ferris examines the literary and historical background to these works, exposing the deep-seated...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 273 p. The last several decades have seen a dramatic increase in interest in the Roman period on the island of Crete. Ongoing and some long-standing excavations and investigations of Roman sites and buildings, intensive archaeological survey of Roman areas, and intensive research on artifacts, history, and inscriptions of the island now provide abundant...
Batoche Books, 2003. — 194 p. The People of Rome and Latium Rome Dominates Latium Rome Creates a Confederation Rome Dominates Central Italy The Foreign Policy of the Young Democracy and its Consequences Rome as an Imperial Democracy The Federation Put to the Test Sentimental Politics The Consequences of Sentimental Politics Reaction Toward Practical Politics Protectorate or...
British İnstitute of Ankara, 2012. List of Numbered Milestones. Conspectus of Designated Roads and Numbered Milestones (with Maps 5.1.1-2). Epigraphic Conventions. Texts. In Asiam. In Pontum et Bithyniam. Per Cappadociam in Pontum et Bithyniam. In Cappadociam. Galatia. De Lycia et Pamphylia in Galatiam. In Ciliciam, Isauriam et Lycaoniam. Per Pontum et Bithyniam, Galatiam,...
Routledge, 2019. — 218 p. This book demonstrates and analyzes patterns in the response of the Imperial Roman state to local resistance, focusing on decisions made within military and administrative organizations during the Principate. Through a thorough investigation of the official Roman approach towards local revolt, author Gil Gambash answers significant questions that,...
Brill, 2020. — 264 p. In People and Institutions in the Roman Empire colleagues honor Garrett Fagan for his contributions to our understanding and appreciation of Roman history and culture. In addition to reviewing and contextualizing Fagan’s works and legacy, contributing authors pursue in their chapters topics and methodologies that interested Fagan - the experiences of...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 378 p. This volume contains a series of articles that examine the Roman family in Italy and the empire using a wide range of evidence and considering a number of critical issues. Its focus on regional differences in family structure, forms of marriage, and kinship patterns make it the first publication to include targeted study of the family in...
Bison Books, 1985. — 264 p. For nearly two centuries, Edward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” has been considered the paradigm of classical history. This monumental work, originally published in six volumes over a period of twelve years from 1776 to 1788, was greeted with general acclaim from the time the first volume came off the press....
Yale University Press, 2016. — 490 p. Adrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empire — including high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keegan — and here he offers a new perspective on the Empire by focusing on its greatest generals, including Scipio Africanus, Marius, Pompey, Caesar, and Titus. Each...
Phoenix, 2004. — 416 p. Adrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empire — including high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keegan — and here he offers a new perspective on the Empire by focusing on its greatest generals, including Scipio Africanus, Marius, Pompey, Caesar, and Titus. Each chapter paints a...
Duckworth, 1985. — 240 p. Studies the inter-relation of literature and everyday human life in the Augustan poets. The works of Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid are characterized by a brilliant polish and a dazzling repertoire of devices for stylizing events and emotion; yet they remain convincing as a direct response to experience. Theories which deny that directness are...
Princeton University Press, 1998. — 244 p. This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the...
The History Press, 2013. — 288 p. The Parisi were a tribe located somewhere within the present day East Riding of Yorkshire, known from a brief reference by Ptolemy. They were originally immigrants from Gaul and share their name with the tribe that occupied modern day France. Fairly obvious from their name, they gave the French capital its name. The investigation of the Parisi...
Princeton University Press, 1984. — xx + 422 p. Judith Hallett illuminates a paradox of elite Roman society of the classical period: its members extolled female domesticity and imposed numerous formal constraints on women's public activity, but many women in Rome's leading families wielded substantial political and social influence.
Aarhus University Press, 1988. — 476 p. — (Jutland Archaeological Society Publications 19). In this book you can to see how was used art and architecture to propaganda service in the Roman Republic and Empire.
Brill, 1965. — 157 p. What are the reasons behind the contamination of oriental cults in Roman Britain? What circumstances led to this spiritual upheaval, the results of which contributed to the triumph of Christianity? This problem, which is fundamental to the history of religions and for the identification of the origins of Western civilization, is at the centre of this...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 370 p. The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most enduring in world history. In his new book, distinguished historian W. V. Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual waning of Roman imperial power, together with the Roman community's internal power structures (political power, social...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xxi + 357. The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most enduring in world history. In his new book, distinguished historian William V. Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual waning of Roman imperial power, together with the Roman community's internal power structures (political...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 384 p. Imperial Rome has a name for wealth and luxury, but was the economy of the Roman Empire as a whole a success, by the standards of pre-modern economies? In this volume W. V. Harris brings together eleven previously published papers on this much-argued subject, with additional comments to bring them up to date. A new study of poverty and...
Hackett Publishing, 2016. — 296 p. "One really must admire Harvey’s achievement in this sourcebook. With just 350 passages (more than half of them consisting of Latin inscriptions, from all over Rome’s empire), Harvey manages to give his readers a real sense of Roman private values and behaviors. His translations of the original texts are superb - both accurate and elegant. And...
Brill Academic Pub, 2011. — 391 p. — (Impact of Empire 13). This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network ‘Impact of Empire’, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists on Roman law from some thirty European, North American and Australian...
Brill, 2009. — 393 p. This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists in Roman law from some thirty European and North American universities. The eighth volume focuses on the impact...
Brill, 2017. — 537 p. The volume 'The politics of honour in the Greek cities of the Roman Empire', co-edited by Anna Heller and Onno van Nijf, studies the public honours that Greek cities bestowed upon their own citizens and foreign dignitaries and benefactors. These included civic praise, crowns, proedria, public funerals, honorific statues and monuments. The authors discuss...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2013. – 431 p. – (Mnemosyne Supplements. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity. Vol. 360). Illustrations and Charts Emily Hemelrijk and Greg Woolf. Introduction Civic Roles Francesca Cenerini. The Role of Women as Municipal Matres Alison Cooley. Women beyond Rome: Trend-Setters or Dedicated Followers of Fashion? Werner Eck. Frauen als Teil der...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 368 p. By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a distinct perspective on the social lives, occupations, family belonging, mobility, ethnicity, religious affiliations, public honour and legal status of Roman women ranging from slaves and freedwomen to women of the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 648 p. Roman cities have rarely been studied from the perspective of women, and studies of Roman women mainly focus on the city of Rome. Studying the civic participation of women in the towns of Italy outside Rome and in the numerous cities of the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire, this books offers a new view on Roman women and urban...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 648 p. Roman cities have rarely been studied from the perspective of women, and studies of Roman women mainly focus on the city of Rome. Studying the civic participation of women in the towns of Italy outside Rome and in the numerous cities of the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire, this books offers a new view on Roman women and urban...
Routledge, 1995. — 294 p. Apart from Christianity and the Oriental Cults, religion in Roman Britain is often discussed as though it remained basically Celtic in belief and practice, under a thin veneer of Roman influence. Using a wide range of archaeological evidence, Dr Henig shows that the Roman element in religion was of much greater significance and that the natural Roman...
The University of Alberta Press, 1982. — 280 p. Gustav Hermansen provides a basis for constructive debate on the social and economic life of the Roman ancient city of Ostia. Ostia unveils ancient social history, architecture, city planning, and community life, and is complete with extensive floor plans, photographs, and line drawings.
University of Michigan Press, 2012. — 246 p. The "glorious house" of the senatorial family of the Flavii Apiones is the best documented economic entity of the Roman Empire during the fifth through seventh centuries, that critical period of transition between the classical world and the Middle Ages. For decades, the rich but fragmentary manuscript evidence that this large...
Routledge, 2000. — 241 p. This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence. This distortion of the facts became accepted truth and its legacy is still felt in archaeology today. While tracing the development of these ideas, the author also gives the...
University of Michigan Press, 2008. — 352 p. It was not until the third century BCE that geopolitical realities beyond Italy forced Rome to recognize the importance of the sea to its own fate. Two centuries later, following the fall of Egypt in 30 BCE, Rome emerged as the dominant maritime power. Once in place, Rome's dominance of the sea became an important component of its...
Wiley-Blackwel, 2018. — 800 p. A Companion to the City of Rome provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its legendary foundations as a settlement on the banks of the Tiber up until circa 600 AD. Featuring original contributions from a wide range of scholars at the forefront of new developments in their...
Cambridge University Press, 1978. — 292 p. The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book, Keith Hopkins, who is both classicist and sociologist, uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain new insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans...
Brill, 2012. — 416 p. The Roman empire extended over three continents, and all its lands came to share a common culture, bequeathing a legacy vigorous even today. A Companion to Roman Imperialism , written by a distinguished body of scholars, explores the extraordinary phenomenon of Rome’s rise to empire to reveal the impact which this had on her subject peoples and on the...
Bloomsbury Publishing / I.B.Tauris, 2019. — 256 p. Rome - Urbs Roma : city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face...
Bloomsbury Publishing / I.B.Tauris, 2019. — 256 p. Rome - Urbs Roma : city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 288 p. Much of Constantine I’s claim to lasting fame rests upon his sponsorship of Christianity, and many works have been published assessing whether his apparent conversion was a real religious experience or a cynical political maneuver. However his path to sole rule of the Roman Empire depended more upon the ruthless application of military...
Routledge, 2019. — 232 p. The establishment of large-scale water infrastructure is a defining aspect of the process of urbanisation. In places like Britain, the Roman period represents the first introduction of features that can be recognised and paralleled to our modern water networks. Writers have regularly cast these innovations as markers of a uniform Roman identity...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. — 534 p. — ISBN: 0-19-814952-2. For more than seven centuries most of the Near East was part of the Roman Empire. Yet no work exists which explores the means by which an ancient power originating in the western Mediterranean could control such a vast and distant region. What was the impact of the army presence on the population of the provinces?...
Brill, 1997. — 554 p. The studies in this collection deal with a variety of subjects. Their focus is the Roman Empire in the East, the Roman army, Judaea in the Roman period, and Jewish history. Inscriptions are published in them and literary sources discussed. First, Judaea in the period before the arrival of the Romans as well as under Roman rule forms the centre of...
Routledge, 2020. — 399 p. — (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies). Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The volume critically explores the gender constructs and sexual behaviours in the provinces and frontiers in light of recent studies of Roman erotic experience and flux gender...
Routledge, 2021. — 240 p. This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its hinterland from the first century AD using modern supply chain modeling techniques. The subject matter delves into the wider supply of goods, such as wood and building products, to add further perspective to the breadth of the system managed by the...
Routledge, 2021. — 240 p. This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its hinterland from the first century AD using modern supply chain modeling techniques. The subject matter delves into the wider supply of goods, such as wood and building products, to add further perspective to the breadth of the system managed by the...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 282 p. The Edges of the Roman World is a volume consisting of seventeen papers dealing with different approaches to cultural changes that occurred in the context of Roman imperial politics. Papers are mainly focused on societies on the fringes, both social and geographical, and their response to Roman Imperialism. This volume is not a...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 432 p. Histories of ancient Rome have long emphasized the ways in which the empire assimilated the societies it conquered, bringing civilization to the supposed barbarians. Yet interpretations of this “Romanization” of Western Europe tend to erase local identities and traditions from the historical picture, leaving us with an incomplete...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 576 p. This book traces the diffusion of the Greek city as a political institution throughout the lands of the Roman Empire bordering the Eastern Mediterranean over a period extending from Alexander's conquest of the East to the sixth century. Arranged in order of annexation, the regions are dealt with individually. The study examines to what...
London; New York: Longman, 1994. — viii, 414 p. — ISBN10: 0582483093. This celebrated account of the decline of the ancient world describes the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the emergence of the new medieval European order. The Sources. Background: The Principate. Diocletian. Constantine. The House of Constantine. The House of Valentinian. The House of...
Barnes and Noble, 1968. — 243 p. The Imperium of Augustus. The censorial powers of Augustus. The elections under Augustus. 'I appeal unto Caesar. Imperial and senatorial jurisdiction in the early Principate. The aerarium and the fiscus. Procurators and prefects in the early Principate. The dediticii and the Constitutio Antoniniana. 'In eo solo dominivm popvli Romani est vel...
Gorgias Press, 2013. — 247 p. Water is one of the most benign, and destructive, powers in the lives of all people, in particular in arid areas such as the Near East. This book provides an alternative way of thinking about the Roman Near East by exploring how its inhabitants managed and lived with their water supplies, especially in the wake of the Roman conquest. Through...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 164 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from drizzle-soaked northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all...
Council for British Research in the Levant, 2004 - 256 p. ISBN10: 0953910210 ISBN13: 9780953910212 (eng) This is an updated and revised second edition of a handbook originally prepared for the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies in Amman, Jordan in 2000 - a reflection of the growing importance of Roman studies in Jordan in recent years. In Part A, there are...
Amber Books Ltd, 2012. — 303 p. Assassination, incest, intrigue, corruption … For all its unrivalled achievements and surpassing splendour, there was an infinitely darker side to ancient Rome. Nowhere were the stakes higher, the passions fiercer or the politicking more murderous than they were at the very top, in the imperial court.
Robinson, 2019. — 592 p. History is written by the victors, and in the case of Rome the victors also had some extremely eloquent historians. Rome's history, as written by the Romans, follows a remarkable trajectory from its origins as a tiny village of refugees from a conflict zone, to a dominant superpower, before being transformed into the Medieval and Byzantine worlds. But...
Robinson Publishing, 2013. — 480 p. In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's "Satires" to recent archaeological finds. He examines extraordinary personalities such as Caligula and Nero and seismic events such as the...
Pegasus Books, 2020. — 508 p. History is written by the victors, and Rome had some very eloquent historians. Those the Romans regarded as barbarians left few records of their own, but they had a tremendous impact on the Roman imagination. Resisting from outside Rome’s borders or rebelling from within, they emerge vividly in Rome’s historical tradition, and left a significant...
Barnes & Noble, 2003. — 615 p. Romans’ penchant for domination can be found both on the battlefront and in the bedroom. An anthropological masterpiece, Sexual Life in Ancient Rome satisfies all your curiosities about sexual practices in ancient Rome. From the eroticism of gladiator matches to the sexuality of empresses, Kiefer binds sex with power and considers whether the...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 240 p. On the horizons of many warring tribes, Roman warriors, knights from chivalric orders and the devoted penniless appeared on a divine mission ready to conquer with an appetite for destruction, salvation and a higher purpose. Pax Romana. Had the world ever seen the magnitude of empires as it did in the Roman Empires...
Brill, 2017. — 382 p. Die politische Rolle der stadtromischen Plebs in der Kaiserzeit engages with the topical question of the political role of the Roman plebs in the imperial period and seeks to reconstruct how it may have looked in practice and how it can be defined. Detailed source criticism of Tacitus, Suetonius, Dio Cassius, and others demonstrates that the passages...
Routledge, 2017. — 390 p. Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World" explores what it meant to be a child in the Roman world - what were children’s concerns, interests and beliefs - and whether we can find traces of children’s own cultures. By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which...
BAR, 1984. — 400 p. — (BAR International Series 206). One. The Petrified Frontier (c. A.D. 50-138). Two. The System Under Stress (138-196). Three. The Severan Renewal (193-235). Four. Collapse and Reconstruction (235-337). Five. The Last Frontier (337-410).
Routledge, 1998. — 218 p. This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from archaeology, classical studies and ancient history to...
Continuum, 2010. — 261 p. Immerse yourself in the sensual delights of Rome in all their guises. Ray Laurence brings an eye-opening and engaging approach to the Roman emperors and their subjects. What's not to like about a guidebook through the consumerist wonderland of ancient Rome, a breezy tour of conspicuous living, lavish dining, mass spectacle, and, of course, sex? The...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 304 p. This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of...
The History Press, 2008. — 256 p. At its height a complex and wealthy state, by the end of the 4th and beginning of the 5th centuries Roman Britain was at the point of collapse. It was soon replaced by Anglo-Saxon culture which migrated across the North Sea. This absorbing study explores the tensions and conflicts between the various tribal groupings that made up Roman Britain...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 240 p. The Roman empire of classical antiquity was a great power without any serious rivals. By contrast, the Roman empire of late antiquity faced another great power to the east, as well as increasingly troublesome barbarian tribes to the north. The ability of the empire to cope with these changed circumstances was affected in part by its...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. — 333 p. — ISBN 0-19-815079-2. J. E. Lendon offers a new interpretation of how the Roman empire worked in the first four centuries AD. A despotism rooted in force and fear enjoyed widespread support among the ruling classes of the provinces on the basis of an aristocratic culture of honour shared by rulers and ruled. The competitive Roman and...
Routledge, 2001. — 313 p. This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration of the empire, using the evidence of contemporary writers and historians. Specifically designed for...
Routledge, 1993. — 280 p. The Roman Empire at its height encompassed the majority of the world known to the Romans. This important synthesis of recent findings and scholarship demonstrates how the Romans acquired, kept and controlled their Empire. Lintott goes beyond the preconceptions formed in the period of British Imperial rule and provides a contemporary post-imperial...
Brill, 2016. — 265 p. — (Papers, proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Rome, June 17-19, 2015). Following on previous workshops of the Impact of Empire network which looked at frontiers (Impact 9), integration (Impact 10) and the world(s) beyond the borders of the Roman empire (Impact 11), the twelfth meeting of the network focused...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 325 p. Bringing together philologists, historians, and archaeologists, Rome, Empire of Plunder bridges disciplinary divides in pursuit of an inter disciplinary understanding of Roman cultural appropriation approached not as a set of distinct practices but as a hydra headed phenomenon through which Rome made and remade itself, as a Republic...
St. Martin’s Press, 1972. — 292 p. Following in the tradition of his eminently popular earlier works, Professor Paul MacKendrick combines archaeology and history in an exploration of the influence of Rome on the civilization and culture of France. Gaul was one of Rome’s richest provinces for almost five hundred years, and the Emperors lavished on it some of their most splendid...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 414 p. Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging from justice...
Harvard University Press, 1966. — 370 p. In order to achieve its various successes, the Roman Empire required a consensus from its subjects regarding social norms, ethics and even aesthetics. At the same time, there were any number of people whose acts and attitudes were rejections of the norm. This comprehensive treatment of patterns of deviation examines a cross-section of...
Routledge, 2016. — 472 p. The battle of Actium waged in 31 BC and the annexation of Egypt in 30 BC to the Roman Empire opened up avenues for increased commercial contact between the Roman Empire, South Asia in general and India in particular and the port of Muziris was the premier trading post of India. In this volume, eminent international scholars from the USA, Switzerland,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 512 p. Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire. Uncommonly expansive in its chronological scope, this unique two-volume text explores the time period encompassing Julius Caesar’s death in 44 BCE to the end of Justinian’s reign six centuries later. Internationally-recognized author...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 512 p. Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire. Uncommonly expansive in its chronological scope, this unique two-volume text explores the time period encompassing Julius Caesar’s death in 44 BCE to the end of Justinian’s reign six centuries later. Internationally-recognized author...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 576 p. Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume II: Select Anthology is a compendium of texts that trace the main historical changes of the empire over six hundred years, from the death of Julius Caesar to the late Middle Ages. This anthology balances literary texts with other documentary, legal,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 576 p. Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume II: Select Anthology is a compendium of texts that trace the main historical changes of the empire over six hundred years, from the death of Julius Caesar to the late Middle Ages. This anthology balances literary texts with other documentary, legal,...
Classical Press of Wales, 2010. — 350 p. The fifteen papers in this volume discuss issues of Roman social, cultural and political history from the foundation of the Principate to the age of barbarian settlements of the west. Working imaginatively from within the diverse evidence, they show the institutional continuity of the Roman empire between its early and later periods, and...
Oxford University Press, 1975. - 448 p. - ISBN: 0198148178. This book does not so much argue a thesis as explore certain areas of preoccupation, more or less closely defined. Its main design is to set in its full context the political history of the Roman West in the later fourth and early fifth centuries, by placing the political and professional lives of the men who were...
Oxbow Books, 1997. — 200 p. This work collects multiple articles / chapters from various scholars to address the question of Roman Imperialism. The introduction by Mattingly lays out the direction studies of Roman imperialism have taken and are currently taking in the 21st century. Mattingly also lays out briefly the course of the book. The common difficulty with collections of...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 365 p. Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman Empire and to hold a generally favorable view of Rome's impact on its subject peoples. Imperialism, Power, and Identity boldly...
Batsford Ltd., 1995. — 487 p. "Lepcis Magna", one of the greatest of the Roman cities of North Africa and one of the most famous archaeological sites in the Mediterranean, was situated in the region of Tripolitania. Birthplace of the Emperor Septimius Severus, the city has yielded many well-preserved monuments from its Roman past. Mattingly presents valuable information on the...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 620 p. Part of the Penguin History of Britain series, An Imperial Possession is the first major narrative history of Roman Britain for a generation. David Mattingly draws on a wealth of new findings and knowledge to cut through the myths and misunderstandings that so commonly surround our beliefs about this period. From the rebellious chiefs and druids...
Thames and Hudson, 2009. — 208 p. An insider's guide: how to join the Roman legions, wield a gladius, storm cities, and conquer the world. Your emperor needs you for the Roman army! The year is AD 100 and Rome stands supreme and unconquerable from the desert sands of Mesopotamia to the misty highlands of Caledonia. Yet the might of Rome rests completely on the armored shoulders...
Oneworld Publications, 2014. — 224 p. No other political entity has shaped the modern world like the Roman Empire. Encompassing close to 60 million people and 3 million square kilometers of land, it represented an incredibly diverse and dynamic collection of nations, states, and tribes, all bound to Rome and the ideal of the Roman identity. In the lively and engaging style that...
Greenwood Press, 2002. — 264 p. What was it like to be a typical ancient Roman? Well, author Matz tells you in this gem. Whether by amusement or tidbit, Matz takes a different approach in writing this reference book. Matz takes you through short passages to make his points, and that he successfully does. So, if you want to read about the Roman Empire and don't want to get...
Laterza, 2014. — 275 p. «L'Impero romano, lungi dall'essere la roccaforte della conservazione, è piuttosto l'immagine della disgregazione di un mondo, la storia della classicità che si disfa e muore: il fatto sociologico più rilevante nella storia della nostra cultura.» In quest'opera, Santo Mazzarino affronta i grandi temi della civiltà occidentale, dal saeculum augustum alla...
Laterza, 2014. — 275 p. «L'Impero romano, lungi dall'essere la roccaforte della conservazione, è piuttosto l'immagine della disgregazione di un mondo, la storia della classicità che si disfa e muore: il fatto sociologico più rilevante nella storia della nostra cultura.» In quest'opera, Santo Mazzarino affronta i grandi temi della civiltà occidentale, dal saeculum augustum alla...
Laterza, 2015. — 325 p. «L'Impero romano, lungi dall'essere la roccaforte della conservazione, è piuttosto l'immagine della disgregazione di un mondo, la storia della classicità che si disfa e muore: il fatto sociologico più rilevante nella storia della nostra cultura.» In quest'opera, Santo Mazzarino affronta i grandi temi della civiltà occidentale, dal saeculum Augustum alla...
Laterza, 2015. — 325 p. «L'Impero romano, lungi dall'essere la roccaforte della conservazione, è piuttosto l'immagine della disgregazione di un mondo, la storia della classicità che si disfa e muore: il fatto sociologico più rilevante nella storia della nostra cultura.» In quest'opera, Santo Mazzarino affronta i grandi temi della civiltà occidentale, dal saeculum Augustum alla...
Pen and Sword, Great Britain, 2016. — 290 p. — ISBN: 978-1-47383-374-6. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran). It explores Roman dealings with the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan) and laid claim to the Indus...
Continuum, 2010. — 256 p. In ancient times there were several major trade routes that connected the Roman Empire to exotic lands in the distant East. Ancient sources reveal that after the Augustan conquest of Egypt, valued commodities from India, Arabia and China became increasingly available to Roman society. These sources describe how Roman traders went far beyond the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 272 p. The ancient evidence suggests that international commerce supplied Roman government with up to a third of the revenues that sustained their empire. In ancient times large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast...
Second edition. — Clarendon Press, 1973. — xx + 622 p., 40 plates, 1 plan. Meiggs' study of ancient Ostia was first published in 1960. The book was so unanimously praised that already six years later this original edition was out of print. Now we have the second edition, which in reality is rather a reprint: as the author states (pag. xi), economic considerations ruled out a...
Routledge, 2004. — 192 p. This fresh and engaging book looks at each of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar in 44 BC to Romulus Augustulus in AD 476, illuminating not only the manner of their deaths but what their final days tell us about their lives. We also hear how the most powerful position in the history of the Western world held a permanent appeal, despite its perils,...
Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned....
Ed. by H. M. Cotton and G. M. Rogers. Chapel Hill – London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. — 505 p. ISBN: 0-8078-2852-1 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN: 0-8078-5520-0 (pbk.: alk. paper) Fergus Millar, Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford emeritus, is one of the most influential ancient historians of the twentieth century. Since the publication of...
Clarendon Press, 1995. — 290 p. This is the first comprehensive study of the history of Asia Minor in antiquity to be written for nearly fifty years and the first attempt to treat Anatolian history as a whole over the millennium from the time of Alexander the Great to the peak of the Byzantine Empire. The first volume is in two parts. The first examines the region in the...
London - New York: Pluto Press, 2010. – 171 p. ISBN: 978-0-7453-2870-6 (hardback) ISBN: 978-0-7453-2869-0 (paperback) This series highlights the relevance of past empires for our contemporary world. It is concerned primarily with the political nature of connections between the past and the present. The approach is radical in that it directs the reader to a recognition of how...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 512 p. — ISBN: 9780199214648 The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of 'empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and cartography,...
Alpha Books, 2002. — 409 p. Did you ever stop and notice how much your daily life is influenced by the contributions of the Romans? Satire, tax shelters, the interstate highway system, the sports stadium, the health club, and the real biggie and the reason you have the ground under your feet: Manifest Destiny.The CIG to the Roman Empire you get: -- Why Rome wasn't built in a...
Routledge, 1994. — 303 p. The Economy of Roman Palestine presents a description of the economy of the province of Judea-Palestina in the Roman era (AD 70 to AD 400) on the basis of a broad selection of primary rabbinic sources and a considerable volume of archaeological findings. The period studied is characterised by demographic growth and corresponding economic development....
Mohr Siebeck, 2017. — 452 p. In the Roman Empire, travelling was something of a central feature, facilitating commerce, pilgrimage, study abroad, tourism, and ethnographic explorations. The present volume investigates for the first time intellectual aspects of this phenomenon by giving equal attention to pagan, Jewish, and Christian perspectives. A team of experts from...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 234 p. This book approaches the manifestation and evolution of the idea of Rome as an expression of Roman patriotism and as an (urban) archetype of utopia in late Roman thought in a period extending from CE 357 to 417. Within this period of about a human lifetime, the concepts of Rome and Romanitas were reshaped and used for various...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2006. — 496 p. Until the 1980s, the Roman frontier in modern Jordan was among the least studied of the empire's far-flung border regions. From 1980 until 1989, the Limes Arabicus Project investigated the frontier east of the Dead Sea. Excavation focused on the late Roman legionary fortress of el-Lejjun as well as soundings of four...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2006. - 558 p. Until the 1980s, the Roman frontier in modern Jordan was among the least studied of the empire's far-flung border regions. From 1980 until 1989, the Limes Arabicus Project investigated the frontier east of the Dead Sea. Excavation focused on the late Roman legionary fortress of el-Lejjun as well as soundings of four...
B.A.R., 1987. — 405 p. — (BAR international series 340(i)). Report on the work done by the Limes Arabicus project from 1980-1985, a surveying project, designed to collect and record information on the material remains of Roman Arabia. These two volumes contain the results of the survey of the Limes zone, a detailed examination of the legionary fortress of El-Lejju'n,...
B.A.R., 1987. — 426 p. — (BAR international series 340(ii)). Report on the work done by the Limes Arabicus project from 1980-1985, a surveying project, designed to collect and record information on the material remains of Roman Arabia. These two volumes contain the results of the survey of the Limes zone, a detailed examination of the legionary fortress of El-Lejju'n,...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2009. — 288 p. La historia de Roma es tan apasionante como compleja, llena de conspiraciones, campañas bélicas y estratagemas políticas. Los dos volúmenes en que Bárbara Pastor nos presenta la historia de este imperio, son indispensables para manejarse con soltura por esta telaraña de intereses políticos y militares. Breve Historia de la antigua Roma. El...
Brill Academic, 2019. — 343 p. The aim of this monograph is to understand the extent to which the landscape of Roman Berytus and the Bekaa valley is a product of colonial transformation following the foundation of Colonia Iulia Augusta Felix Berytus in 15 BCE. The book explores the changes observed in the cities of Berytus and Heliopolis, as well as the sites at Deir el-Qalaa,...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 376 p. Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? And is it of interest just to musicians? By exploring different authors and philosophical trends of the Roman Empire, from Philo of Alexandria to Alexander of Aphrodisias, from the rebirth of Platonism with Plutarch to the last Neoplatonists, this book sheds light on different ways...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 304 p. Spanning over a thousand years and an immense geographical area, the Roman Empire was the greatest in world history. At its most powerful, the Empire cast a shadow across the known world, and its legacy continues to influence politics, art and culture around the world today. Rome's power was won on the battlefield, and the greatness of the...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 318 p. Sicily has been the fulcrum of the Mediterranean throughout history. The island’s central geographical position and its status as ancient Rome’s first overseas province make it key to understanding the development of the Roman Empire. Yet Sicily’s crucial role in the empire has been largely overlooked by scholars of classical antiquity,...
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. — 691 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history). — ISBN: 978-0-631-22644-4. A Companion to the Roman Empire provides readers with a guide both to Roman imperial history and to the field of Roman studies, taking account of the most recent discoveries. This Companion brings together thirty original essays guiding readers through...
Quercus Publishing, 2016. — 336 p. The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the maniac Commodus and beyond. Interwoven with these are vivid descriptions of sports and...
London: Quercus, 2007. — 255 p. — ISBN13: 978-1847240101. In 27 BC, after the tumultuous period of civil war triggered by the assassination of Julius Caesar 17 years earlier, Octavian was proclaimed emperor by the Roman Senate and given the title ‘Augustus’. He ruled over an empire that embraced the territories of 25 modern nation-states and had more than 50 million subjects....
Harvard University Press, 1994. - 281 p. - (Revealing Antiquity). To the practical modern mind, the idea of divine prophecy is more ludicrous than sublime. Yet to our cultural forebears in ancient Greece and Rome, prophecy was anything but marginal; it was in fact the basic medium for recalling significant past events and expressing hopes for the future, and it offered...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 424 p. The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 424 p. The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 421 p. Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome’s significance within comparative studies. Fills a gap in comparative historical...
Amsterdam University Press, 2019. — 328 p. This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references to the past play a significant role....
Fortress Press, 2013. — 271 p. A selection of the most important sources for the cultural and political context of the early Roman Empire and the New Testament writings, Roman Imperial Texts includes freshly translated public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled protest from the Empire's subject peoples all introduced by Mark Reasoner.
New York: Metro Books, 2008. — 511 p. — ISBN13: 978-1435104556. A complete history of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, chronicling the story of the most important and influential civilization the world has ever known.
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 393 p. — (History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 355). 'Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain' offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the relationship between settlement and water and the...
Routledge, 1991. — 231 p. This book offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical world, made to the city of Ephesos in AD 104 by a wealthy Roman equestrian, and challenges some of the basic assumptions made about the significance of the Greek cultural renaissance known as the Second Sophistic.
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 314 p. Dynastic Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian Period examines the production of Julio-Claudian dynastic imagery from ca. 31 B.C. to 68 C.E., charting the varying perceptions of the first Imperial family in both Rome and the provinces. During this time, Roman power began to be linked to and defined as a...
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972. — 230 p. This excellent book is the first systematic study of Egyptian and Egyptianizing monuments discovered in Rome and its neighbourhood (Tivoli, Ostia). The Catalogue Raisonné forms the major part of the book (55-147) in which the author gives as accurately as possible, all the scientific data of each document, namely the provenance, the present...
Clarendon Press, 1996. — 400 p. Oxyrynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from the outlying rural lands, and the relationships they held with their tenants.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 337 p. The history of Roman imperial religion is of fundamental importance to the history of religion in Europe. Emerging from a decade of research, From Jupiter to Christ demonstrates that the decisive change within the Roman imperial period was not a growing number of religions or changes in their ranking and success, but a...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 348 p. Images relating to imperial power were produced all over the Roman Empire at every social level, and even images created at the centre were constantly remade as they were reproduced, reappropriated, and reinterpreted across the empire. This book employs the language of social dynamics, drawn from economics, sociology, and psychology,...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 348 p. Images relating to imperial power were produced all over the Roman Empire at every social level, and even images created at the centre were constantly remade as they were reproduced, reappropriated, and reinterpreted across the empire. This book employs the language of social dynamics, drawn from economics, sociology, and psychology,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 472 p. The use of stone in vast quantities is a ubiquitous and defining feature of the material culture of the Roman world. In this volume, Russell provides a new and wide-ranging examination of the production, distribution, and use of carved stone objects throughout the Roman world, including how enormous quantities of high-quality white and...
The History Press, 2011. — 288 p. When we think of Roman Britain we tend to think of a land of togas and richly decorated palaces with Britons happily going about their much improved daily business under the benign gaze of Rome. This image is to a great extent a fiction. In fact, Britons were some of the least enthusiastic members of the Roman Empire. A few adopted Roman ways...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — xiv, 546 p. Warfare was the single biggest preoccupation of historians in antiquity. In recent decades fresh textual interpretations, numerous new archaeological discoveries and a much broader analytical focus emphasising social, economic, political and cultural approaches have transformed our understanding of ancient warfare. This two-volume...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 464 p. Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation, and the demise of the Senate. Historians have traditionally considered these crises as defining events, and thus critical to our understanding of the...
London: Thames and Hadson Ltd, 1995. — 244 p. — ISBN 0-500-05077-5. What do we know of the lives and personalities of the 80 emperors who reiged from Augustus to the fall of Rome? «Chronicle of the Roman Emperors» is the first book to focus on the succession of rulers of imperial Rome, using timelines and other visual aids throughout. Now no one need be in any doubt as to who...
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012. - 458 p. "The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy offers readers a comprehensive and innovative introduction to the economy of the Roman Empire. Focusing on the principal determinants, features, and consequences of Roman economic development and integrating additional web-based materials, it is designed as an up-to-date survey...
Routledge, 2014. — 463 p. The name of Rome excites a picture of power and organisation, as do the widely-spread ruins that Roman civilization left behind. Yet Rome grew out of a collection of small villages and major developments such as the growth of Empire were unplanned and completely unprepared for.Influenced by a small number of self-interested aristocrats who lacked a...
Brill, 2016. — 274 p. — (Impact of Empire 21). — ISBN: 978-90-04-32561-6 ; ISBN: 978-90-04-32675-0. Subjects: ancient history, classical studies, social history, archaeology, art & architecture, classical studies. This volume offers an expansive approach to interactions between Romans and those beyond the borders of Rome. The range of papers included here is wide, both in terms...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1995. — 253 p. Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World deals with the integration of the cult of Isis among Roman cults, the subsequent transformation of Isis and Sarapis into gods of the Roman state, and the epigraphic employment of the names of these two deities independent from their cultic context. The myth that the guardians of tradition and Roman...
Pen & Sword Military, 2016. — 224 p. In a single volume, Roman Empire at War catalogues and offers a brief description of every significant battle fought by the Roman Empire from Augustus to Justinian I (and most of the minor ones too). The information in each entry is drawn exclusively from Ancient, Late Antique, and Early Medieval texts, in order to offer a brief description...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 395 p. Andre Tchernia is one of the leading experts on amphorae as a source of economic history, a pioneer of maritime archaeology, and author of a wealth of articles on Roman trade, notably the wine trade. This book brings together the author's previously published essays, updated and revised, with recent notes and prefaced with an entirely new...
Princeton University Press, 2012. - 320 p. - (Princeton Economic History of the Western World ) The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the...
Princeton University Press, 2012. - 320 p. - (Princeton Economic History of the Western World ) The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the...
Brill, 2013. — 262 p. Ancient Roman trade was severely hampered by slow transportation and by the absence of a state that helped traders enforce their contracts. In Trading Communities in the Roman World: A Micro-Economic and Institutional Perspective Taco Terpstra offers a new explanation of how traders in the Roman Empire overcame these difficulties. Previous theories have...
London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1924. — Texts (2065-2156). The Oxyrhynchus Papyri is an ongoing series of publications of (and about) a large set of ancient manuscripts found near Oxyrynchus (mostly from Roman Times) in Egypt.
Edited with translations and notes by Arthur S. Hunt. — London : Egypt Exploration Society, 1927. — Texts (2157-2207). The Oxyrhynchus Papyri is an ongoing series of publications of (and about) a large set of ancient manuscripts found near Oxyrynchus (mostly from Roman Times) in Egypt.
Edited with translations and notes by E. Lobel. — London : Egypt Exploration Society, 1941. — Texts (2208-2244). The Oxyrhynchus Papyri is an ongoing series of publications of (and about) a large set of ancient manuscripts found near Oxyrynchus (mostly from Roman Times) in Egypt.
Edited with translations and notes by E. Lobel [and others]. — London : Egypt Exploration Society, 1948. — Texts (2245-2287). The Oxyrhynchus Papyri is an ongoing series of publications of (and about) a large set of ancient manuscripts found near Oxyrynchus (mostly from Roman Times) in Egypt.
Oxon – New York: Routledge, 2007. – 264 p. ISBN 0-203-96803-4 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 10 0-415-40999-3 (hbk) ISBN 10 0-203-96803-4 (ebk) ISBN 13 978-0-415-40999-5 (hbk) ISBN 13 978-0-203-96803-1 (ebk) The first book to ever examine ancient Roman traffic, this well-illustrated volume looks in detail at the construction of Roman road, and studies the myriad of road users of the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. Eunuchs tend to be associated with eastern courts, popularly perceived as harem personnel. However, the Roman empire was also distinguished by eunuchs - they existed as slaves, court officials, religious figures and free men. This book is the first to be devoted to the range of Roman eunuchs. Across seven chapters (spanning the third century...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. Eunuchs tend to be associated with eastern courts, popularly perceived as harem personnel. However, the Roman empire was also distinguished by eunuchs - they existed as slaves, court officials, religious figures and free men. This book is the first to be devoted to the range of Roman eunuchs. Across seven chapters (spanning the third century...
Routledge, 2007. — 300 p. Drawing on unusually broad range of sources for this study of Imperial period philosophical thought, Michael Trapp examines the central issues of personal morality, political theory, and social organization: philosophy as the pursuit of self-improvement and happiness; the conceptualization and management of emotion; attitudes and obligations to others;...
Unter Mitarbeit von Ursula Schnegg. — Wien; Köln; Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2006. — 432 S. — ISBN: 3-205-77509-6, ISBN: 978-3-205-77509-6. This volume is an outcome of the FWF project P14853 "Ethnographie - Gender-Perspektive - Antikerezeption". The research project intended to connect ancient ethnography, gender studies and the running methodological debate. For this purpose the...
Routledge, 2017. — xii + 225 p. In recent years, the debate on Romanisation has often been framed in terms of identity. Discussions have concentrated on how the expansion of empire impacted on the constructed or self-ascribed sense of belonging of its inhabitants, and just how the interaction between local identities and Roman ideology and practices may have led to a...
Brill Academic Pub, 2002. — 529 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 144). This archaeological study investigates the meaning of the Egyptian and egyptianising artefacts that have been preserved from the Roman world in different ways. Its point of departure is a detailed study on the so-called Nilotic scenes or Nilotic landscapes. The book presents a comprehensive and...
Second Edition — Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 186 p. Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Weiss' detailed study, a thesis, of the public role of slaves in the cities of the Roman empire is based on an extensive catalogue of inscriptions which are presented in Latin or Greek. This is preceded by an annotated discussion of Roman civil servants, the public duties of the personal servants of high-ranking officals, the place of slavery in...
Gonnelli, 2006. — 200 p. The strategi and royal scribes were the chief administrative officials of the nomes of Roman Egypt. The presence of named individuals with known terms of office is therefore often significant in the dating of documentary papyri. Updating Volume XV of the Papyrologica Florentina series (1987), this volume takes account of the relevant texts in nearly 150...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. — 360 p. Although the Roman empire was one of the longest lasting in history, it was never ideologically conceived by its rulers or inhabitants as a territory within fixed limits. Yet Roman armies clearly reached certain points — which today we call frontiers — where they simply stopped advancing and annexing new territories. In Frontiers...
London U.K.: Routledge, 2004. — x, 246 p : ill., maps. Do the Romans have anything to teach us about the way that they saw the world, and the way they ran their empire? How did they deal with questions of frontiers and migration, so often in the news today? This collection of ten important essays by C. R. Whittaker, engages with debates and controversies about the Roman...
Routledge, 2014. — 234 p. There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity. Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to describe a range of...
Routledge, 1992. — 231 p. Historians have formulated an endless number of theories to explain the role of gladiatorial games in Roman culture. In Emperors and Gladiators, Thomas Wiedemann examines the role of public ceremonies in the context of competition within the class of Roman elites: these games served as public demonstrations of the power of the Roman community or...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — xxii + 656 p. — (Oxford studies on the Roman economy). This volume presents eighteen papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discussing trade in the Roman Empire during the period c.100 BC to AD 350. It focuses especially on the role of the Roman state in shaping the institutional framework for trade within and outside the empire,...
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