Pen and Sword Military, 2016. — 272 p. For twenty years, the Roman Empire conquered its way through modern-day Germany, claiming all lands from the Rhine to the Elbe. However, when at last all appeared to be under control, a catastrophe erupted that claimed the lives of 10,000 legionnaires and laid Rome’s imperial ambitions for Germania into the dust. In late September of 9 AD,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 256 p. In the year AD 9, three Roman legions were crushed by the German warlord Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. This event is well-known, but there was another uprising that Rome faced shortly before, which lasted from AD 6 to 9, and was just as intense. This rebellion occurred in the western Balkans (an area roughly corresponding...
Greenwood, 2004. — 296 p. An in-depth study of life in ancient Roman cities Although the majority of ancient Rome's population lived in the countryside, Rome's heart - its cultural, political, and spiritual centre - lay in the city. In the most distant corners of the Empire, Rome's metropolitan existence was reflected in provincial cities whose architecture, infrastructure,...
Routledge, 1998. — 272 p. Aspects of Roman History, AD 14–117 charts the history of the Roman Imperial period, from the establishment of the Augustan principate to the reign of Trajan, providing a basic chronological framework of the main events and introductory outlines of the major issues of the period. The first half of the book outlines the linear development of the Roman...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 408 p. On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men - Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian - emerged as leaders of a revolutionary regime,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 408 p. On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men - Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian - emerged as leaders of a revolutionary regime,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2012. — 272 p. The Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been regarded as one of 'crisis'. Between 235 and 284, at least eighteen men held the throne of the empire, for an average of less than three years, a reckoning which does not take into account all...
Rizzoli, 2014. - 490 pagine. — ISBN: 8817077305 Il 24 ottobre del 79 d.C. sembra un venerdì qualsiasi a Pompei, una città abitata da circa dodicimila persone che, come innumerevoli altre nell'Impero, lavorano, vanno alle terme, fanno l'amore. Ma alle 13 dal vicino Vesuvius si sprigiona una quantità di energia pari a cinquantamila bombe atomiche e, in meno di venti ore, sotto un...
2009. — 249 p. The wondrous extravagance of banquets where flamingos are roasted whole and wine flows like rivers. The roar of frenzied spectators inside the Colosseum during a battle between gladiators. A crowd of onlookers gathered at a slave auction. The silent baths and the boisterous taverns...Many books have dealt with the history of ancient Rome, but none has been able...
Feltrinelli, 2007. — 293 p. Lingua: italiano. Com'era la vita quotidiana nella Roma Imperiale? Quali volti si incontravano nelle vie o sulle gradinate del Colosseo? Quali atmosfere si respiravano nelle case, nei palazzi? Alberto Angela conduce il lettore nella folla delle strade, all'interno delle case o nel Colosseo durante i combattimenti tra gladiatori. A descrizioni...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 390 p. The traditional demographic regime of ancient Greece and Rome is almost entirely unknown; but our best chance for understanding its characteristics is provided by the three hundred census returns that survive on papyri from Roman Egypt. These returns, which date from the first three centuries AD, list the members of ordinary households...
Yesterday's Classics, 2008. — 128 p. An introduction to the ancient city of Rome, its early history, and how its geographical position helped it become the seat of the Roman Empire. Traveling to the city in A.D. 71 we witness the triumph of Vespasian and Titus as well as the games in the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus. And finally we learn that the secret to Rome's greatness...
Solar Books, 2016. — 156 p. Caligula: most notorious of the Roman Emperors, who seduced his own sister, installed a horse in the Roman Senate, turned his palace into a brothel, married a prostitute, tortured and killed hundreds of innocent citizens on a whim, and committed countless other acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy. Award-winning writers Stephen Barber and Jeremy...
New Haven – London: Yale University Press, 2002. – 445 p. ISBN: 0-300-09196-6 (alk. paper) Livia (58 B.C. – A.D. 29) – the wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius, wielded power at the center of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been portrayed as a cunning and sinister schemer, but in this biography (the first in...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. - 331 p. Nero's reign (AD 54–68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians — not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war. The Emperor Nero gathers into...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0300078560 ISBN13: 978-0300078565. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by...
Batsford Press, 2005. — 380 p. In this dynamic new biography - the first on Agrippina in English - Professor Barrett uses the latest archaeological, numismatic and historical evidence to provide a close and detailed study of her life and career. He shows how Agrippina's political contribution to her time seems in fact to have been positive, and that when she is judged by her...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2015. — 408 p. The Roman Empire has always exercised a considerable fascination. Among its numerous colourful personalities, no emperor, with the possible exception of Nero, has attracted more popular attention than Caligula, who has a reputation, whether deserved or not, as the quintessential mad and dangerous ruler. The first edition of this book...
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. — 342 p. Lives of the Caesars tells the fresh stories of 12 of Rome's most fascinating and influential Rulers, uncovering the unique features of their reigns which allowed them to earn their places in history. A comprehensive and engaging account of the lives of the Caesars, who helped shaped one of the most significant periods in history Each...
Non Basic Stock Line, 2010. — 368 p. 'This marvellous book won the Wolfson History Prize and is a model of subtle but accessible writing about the past' Judith Rice, Guardian 'Classicist Mary Beard has had a great time rooting about that ghostly place and she has brought it quite splendidly back to life' Nicholas Bagnall, Sunday Telegraph 'To the vast field of Pompeiana she...
University of North Carolina Press, 2011. — 260 p. One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan. In The Column of Marcus Aurelius , Martin Beckmann makes a thorough study of the form, content, and meaning of this infrequently studied...
Routledge, 2005. — 348 p. — ISBN: 0415165245. The emperor Trajan was indubitably well liked in his own lifetime, when he was termed Optimus Princeps, the ‘perfect prince’. After his death it was said that no other emperor had excelled or even equalled him in popularity with the people, and his memory remained green for centuries. In the mid-fourth century, it was said that he...
Baylor University Press, 2013. — 240 p. No other special force in history has a mystique equal to that of ancient Rome's thoroughbred protection and counter-insurgency squadron--the renowned Praetorian Guard. Originally conceived as a personal army for the emperor, the Guard assumed a much greater role than simple bodyguard, taking over a wide range of powers in the city and...
Routledge, 2002. — 292 p. — ISBN: 0415165911 In this well-illustrated and stimulating biography, Anthony R. Birley looks at the multi-faceted and sometimes conflicting character of this strange and enigmatic emperor. He asks whether Septimius was a ‘typical cosmopolitan bureaucrat’, a ‘new Hannibal on the throne of the Caesars’ or the ‘principal author of the decline of the...
London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 1997. — 371 p. Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to...
Fortress Press, 2017. — 475 p. The social context of Paul's mission and congregations has been the study of intense investigation for decades, but only in recent years have questions of economic realities and the relationship between rich and poor come to the forefront. In Paul and Economics, leading scholars address a variety of topics in contemporary discussion, including an...
Penguin UK, 2015. — 784 p. Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to characterize his rule, Octavian rallied huge financial, military and political backing...
Penguin UK, 2015. — 784 p. Born to a plebeian family in 63 BC, Octavian was a young solder training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered that he was the dictator's sole political heir. With the opportunism and instinct for propaganda that were to characterize his rule, Octavian rallied huge financial, military and political backing...
McFarland, 2010. — 294 p. ISBN: 0786444797 During the first and second centuries A.D., the supremacy of the Roman Empire was aggressively challenged by three Jewish rebellions. The facts surrounding the initial uprising of A.D. 66-74 have been filtered through the biased accounts of Judeao Roman historian Flavius Josephus. Primary information regarding the subsequent Diaspora...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 356 p. This innovative monograph series reflects a vigorous revival of interest in the ancient economy, focusing on the Mediterranean world under Roman rule (c. 100 BC to AD 350). Carefully quantified archaeological and documentary data will be integrated to help ancient historians, economic historians, and archaeologists think about economic...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2003. – 797 p. ISBN: 90-04-11188-3 The politics, literature and culture of ancient Rome during the Flavian principate (69–96 CE) have recently been the subject of intense investigation. In this volume of new, specially commissioned studies, twenty-five scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the period, which...
Batsford, 2006. - 144 p. Two thousand years ago the Roman army, one of the world's most successful fighting machines, set out to conquer Scotland. Three invasions were attempted and each ended in withdrawal. These forays have left their mark on today's landscape in the form of impressive earthworks — the remains of forts and frontiers constructed by the army, including the...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 224 p. At its height, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire yet seen, its borders stretching from the rain-swept highlands of Scotland in the north to the sun-scorched Nubian desert in the south. But how were the vast and varied stretches of frontier defined and defended? Many of Rome's frontier defenses have been the subject of detailed and ongoing...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 328 p. Sabina Augusta (ca. 85 - ca. 137), wife of the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-38), accumulated more public honors in Rome and the provinces than any imperial woman had enjoyed since the first empress, Augustus' wife Livia. Indeed, Sabina is the first woman whose image features on a regular and continuous series of coins minted at Rome. She...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 444 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 49). This book focuses on the role of the emperor and the image of the Roman Empire as a whole during the time period from Augustus to Constantine. It analyses this image by taking into account the epigraphic, literary, numismatic and archaeological sources from Phoenicia to Osrhoene and...
Routledge, 2006. — 376 p. Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations. Spanning the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC to the third century AD, and with an epilogue surveying empresses of later...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. — xiv + 461 p. Frontmatter missing The barbarians of antiquity, so long a fixture of the public imagination as the savages who sacked and destroyed Rome, emerge in this colorful, richly textured history as a much more complex — and far more interesting — factor in the expansion, and eventual unmaking, of the Roman Empire. Thomas S. Burns...
St. Martin's Press, 2013. — 368 p. The ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this highly readable, lavishly illustrated book, Butterworth and Laurence marshall cutting-edge archaeological reconstructions and a vibrant historical tradition dating to Pliny and Tacitus; they present...
London – New York: Routledge, 2002. — 223 p. — (Warfare and History). — ISBN 0-203-21949-X Master e-book ISBN. — ISBN 0-203-27459-8 (Adobe eReader Format). — ISBN 0-415-27881-3 (hbk). — ISBN 0-415-27882-1 (pbk). This well-documented study of the Roman army provides a crucial aid to understanding the Roman Empire in economic, social and political terms. The army was a dominant...
London: Routledge, 2006. — 272 p. The Roman army was an integral part of the society and life of the Empire and exemplifies many aspects of Roman government. This sourcebook presents material which illustrates the life of the army in the field and in the community. This book prints the most important primary sources about the Roman army and its activities--inscriptions, papyri,...
Translated from the French by E.O. Lorimer. — Penguin Books, 1941. — 365 p. This classic book brings to life imperial Rome as it was during the second century A.D., the time of Trajan and Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus. It was a period marked by lavish displays of wealth, a dazzling cultural mix, and the advent of Christianity. The splendor and squalor of the city, the...
Pitchstone Publishing, 2017. — 648 p. In this extensive sequel to Science Education in the Early Roman Empire , Dr. Richard Carrier explores the social history of scientists in the Roman era. Was science in decline or experiencing a revival under the Romans? What was an ancient scientist thought to be and do? Who were they, and who funded their research? And how did pagans...
New Word City, Inc., 2015. — 147 p. Award-winning historian Lionel Casson paints a vivid portrait of life in ancient Rome - for slaves and emperors, soldiers and commanders alike - during the empire's greatest period, the first and second A.D. centuries.
Harvard University Press, 2005. — 359 p. The Roman emperor Nero is remembered by history as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. Edward Champlin reinterprets Nero's enormities on their own terms, as the self-conscious performances of an imperial actor with a formidable grasp of Roman history and mythology and a canny sense of his audience. Nero murdered...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 224 p. Starting from the issues of globalisation and recent studies about the mechanisms of absorption of cultures into the Roman Empire, this book focuses on the Near East, an area that has received much less attention than the Western part of the Roman empire in the context of the Romanisation debate. Cimadomo seeks to develop new understandings of...
University of California Press, 1998. — 372 p. What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question-and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own. Clarke reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society in a study informed by recent...
Savas Beatie, 2009. — 414 p. In 9 A.D., the 17th, 18th, & 19th Roman legions and their auxiliary troops under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus vanished in the boggy wilds of Germania. They died singly and by the hundreds over several days in a carefully planned ambush led by Arminius — a Roman-trained German warrior adopted and subsequently knighted by the Romans, but...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 334 p. — ISBN10: 1107655048, ISBN13: 9781107655041 The first three centuries AD saw the spread of new religious ideas through the Roman Empire, crossing a vast and diverse geographical, social and cultural space. In this innovative study, Anna Collar explores both how this happened and why. Drawing on research in the sociology and...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2007, -300 p. What were the eating and drinking habits of the inhabitants of Britain during the Roman period? Drawing on evidence from a large number of archaeological excavations, this fascinating new study shows how varied these habits were in different regions and amongst different communities and challenges the idea that there was any...
London - New York: Routledge, 2006. – 214 p. ISBN10: 0-415-33313-X ISBN13: 978-0-415-33313-9 In the Late Iron Age two kings held dominion over much of Lowland Britain: Cunobelin and Verica. Just before AD 43 the rule of both of them ended – one died and the other fled – and Rome, under the Emperor Claudius, took the opportunity to invade. Within a few generations the ceremonial...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 256 p. In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea. This was first part of the Nabataean Kingdom, but came under direct Roman rule in 106 CE as part of the province of Roman Arabia. The archives these two women left behind not only provide a...
J. Wiley & Sons, 2005. — 322 p. The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire — a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under...
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010. — 288 p. : ill., maps. On the night of July 19, AD 64, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the Circus Maximus. For more than a week the fire spread, engulfing most of the city and nearly burning it to the ground. With its capital in ruins, Rome's powerful empire teetered on the edge of collapse as Nero struggled...
Routledge, 2018. — 328 p. Image and Reality of Roman Imperial Power in the Third Century AD focuses on the wide range of available sources of Roman imperial power in the period AD 193-284, ranging from literary and economic texts, to coins and other artefacts. This volume examines the impact of war on the foundations of the economic, political, military, and ideological power...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 408 p. A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero - these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 408 p. A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero - these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 344 p. A riveting account of ancient Rome’s imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make - or destroy - the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers served...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 344 p. A riveting account of ancient Rome’s imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make - or destroy - the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection of the emperor and his family. As the centuries unfolded, however, Praetorian soldiers served...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 534 p. Until recently migration did not occupy a prominent place on the agenda of students of Roman history. Various types of movement in the Roman world were studied, but not under the heading of migration and mobility. Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire starts from the assumption that state-organised, forced and voluntary...
École Française de Rome, 1992. — 719 p. A unique reference publication containing brief biographies of all the main state and military figures of ancient Rome during the reign of the first Roman emperors from the Julio-Claudian dynasty (from 43 BC to 70 AD). Depuis plus d'un siècle, les enquêtes prosopographiques ont été déve loppées par les historiens de la Rome antique;...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Dettenhofer's detailed thesis examines the conflicts that transformed Rome's government between 44 BC and AD 14. Beginning with an assessment of Julius Caesar's relationship with the state, the book examines how Octavian moulded Caesar's testament and Rome's constitution to establish a monarchy. Chapters also consider how dynastic and personal...
Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1972. - 48 pgs. Northern History Booklets No.28. The Roman army was made up of groups of soldiers called legions. There were over 5,000 soldiers in a legion. Each legion had its own number, name, badge and fortress. There were about 30 legions around the Roman Empire, three of which were based in Britain at Caerleon, Chester and York. The...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 399 p. In histories of ancient Jews and Judaism, the Roman Empire looms large. For all the attention to the Jewish Revolt and other conflicts, however, there has been less concern for situating Jews within Roman imperial contexts; just as Jews are frequently dismissed as atypical by scholars of Roman history, so Rome...
Routledge, 2000. — 240 p. Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles....
Heffers, 1958. — 145 p. The Slave Market Manumission Legal Relations between Patron and Freedman Social Status of Freedmen Grades of Freedmen Freedmen in Private Life Freedmen in Public Life Imperial Freedmen Imperial Policy Towards Freedmen and their Influence on Society Appendix 1: Date of the Lex Junia Appendix 2: The ius anuli auri Appendix 3: The Imperial Civil Service...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 321 p. This book discusses minting and financial policy in the first three centuries of the Roman Empire. By studying Roman coin-survivals in a wider context, the author uncovers important facts about the origin of coin hoards of the Principate. The resulting analyses use extensive coin material collected for the first time. Dr. Duncan-Jones...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — vii + 229 p. How far were appointments in the Roman Empire based on merit? Did experience matter? What difference did social rank make? This innovative study of the Principate examines the career outcomes of senators and knights by social category. Contrasting patterns emerge from a new database of senatorial careers. Although the highest...
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 259 p. This book by the author of The Economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies considers important interlocking themes. Did the Roman Empire have a single 'national' economy, or was its economy localised and fragmented? Can coin and pottery survivals demonstrate the importance of long-distance trade? How fast did essential news...
Liveright, 2019. — 336 p. When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks - filled with pearls of wisdom - and his legacy. At its...
Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2007. — 224 p. — Second edition ISBN: 1405151498 This concise biography tells the extraordinary story of Augustus, Rome 's first monarch. It traces the history of the Roman revolution and Rome 's transformation from a republic to an empire.Werner Eck provides a vivid narrative of Augustus ' rise to power. From the war against the assassins of...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 208 p. At age 65, Nerva assumed the role of emperor of Rome; just sixteen months later, his reign ended with his death. Nerva's short reign robbed his regime of the opportunity for the emperor's imperial image to be defined in building or monumental art, leaving seemingly little for the art historian or archaeologist to consider. In view of this...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 208 p. At age 65, Nerva assumed the role of emperor of Rome; just sixteen months later, his reign ended with his death. Nerva's short reign robbed his regime of the opportunity for the emperor's imperial image to be defined in building or monumental art, leaving seemingly little for the art historian or archaeologist to consider. In view of this...
Random House, 2006. — 416 p. He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus’s accomplishments, very few...
Random House, 2010. — 448 p. Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 240 p. With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. This was 9 June, AD 68. The following year, commonly known as the ‘Year of the Four Emperors’, was probably one of Rome’s worst. Nero's death threw up a critical question for the...
Franz Steiner, 2006. Der russisch-israelische Papyrologe und Althistoriker I. F. Fikhman zählt zu den bedeutendsten Forschern des 20. Jhs. auf dem Gebiet der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte des römischen und vor allem byzantinischen Ägypten. Der Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeiten liegt auf der Stadt Oxyrhynchos, der besonders reiches Material zu dieser Epoche zu verdanken ist, sowie...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 240 p. Gaius Caligula reigned for four short years from 37 to 41 CE before his infamous tenure came to a violent end. While much has been written about Caligula’s notorious excesses and court life, relatively little of his military and foreign policy has been seriously studied. This is a military history of Rome during Caligula’s reign. Caligula...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. Zum ersten Mal seit 100 Jahren befa t sich wieder eine Monographie auf deutsch mit diesem mittlerweile durch die Verbreitung nichtehelicher Lebensgemeinschaften hochaktuellen Thema. Sie untersucht den Konkubinat im r mischen Reich in Italien und den nordwestlichen Provinzen. Dabei wird der Frage nach Bedeutung, Umfang, Motiven und Realit t des...
University of Missouri Press, 2000. — 300 p. After more than a century of debate about the significance of imperial cults for the interpretation of Revelation, this is the first study to examine both the archaeological evidence and the Biblical text in depth. Friesen argues that a detailed analysis of imperial cults as they were practiced in the first century CE in the region...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1993. — 257 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 116). This is a case study of the Cult of the Sebastoi that was established in the city of Ephesus by the province of Asia during the late first century CE. It served as a prototypical manifestation of socio-religious developments during the late first and early second centuries in the Eastern...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 444 p. The age of Augustus, commonly dated to 30 BC – AD 14, was a pivotal period in world history. A time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and throughout the Mediterranean world, many developments were underway when Augustus took charge and a recurring theme is the role that he played in shaping their direction. The Cambridge Companion...
University of California Press, 2015. — 328 p. During the Principate (roughly 27 BCE to 235 CE), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to...
Routledge, 2014. — 862 p. — (Routledge Revivals). The first two centuries of the Christian era were largely a period of consolidation for the Roman Empire. However, the history of the heyday of Roman imperium is far from dull, for Augustus’ successors ranged from capable administrators - Tiberius, Claudius and Hadrian - to near-madmen like Caligula and the amateur gladiator...
Amsterdam: Verlag Adolf M. Hakkert, 1980. — 359 s. Nouvelles donnees sur le debut de l'histoire d'Oescus. L'aspect ethnique et linquistique dans la region entre le Danube et les Balkans a l'epoque romaine (I - III s.). Zwei neugefundene Militardiplome aus Nordbulgarien. Der Thrakische Stamm der Maden. Ethnographisch-historische Untersuchung. Zur Identitat des Imperators Decius...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. — 180 p. — (History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 349) This collection of essays considers the challenging questions around the formation, establishment and continuation of the Julio-Claudian principate from the coming to power of Augustus. Augustus laid down the ground rules for a princeps, and the essays explore the subsequent transition of...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 528 p. A groundbreaking and comprehensive history of the Roman Peace from one of the leading historians of the ancient world Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD. Yet the Romans were conquerors,...
London - New York: Routledge, 1997. – 405 p. – (Routledge History of the Ancient World). ISBN 0-203-40861-6 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-71685-X (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-04969-5 (hbk) 0-415-04970-9 (pbk) Examining the Roman world from an unusual and illuminating angle, this volume explores the central period of the Roman empire from Julius Caesar to Marcus Aurelius....
Clarendon Press, 1994. — 194 p. This book tackles a central problem of Jewish and comparative religious history: proselytization and the origins of mission in the Early Church. Why did some individuals in the first four centuries of the Christian era believe it desirable to persuade as many outsiders as possible to join their religious group, while others did not? In this book,...
Vintage, 2007. — 640 p. A magisterial history of the titanic struggle between the Roman and Jewish worlds that led to the destruction of Jerusalem. Martin Goodman — equally renowned in Jewish and in Roman studies — examines this conflict, its causes, and its consequences with unprecedented authority and thoroughness. He delineates the incompatibility between the cultural,...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2013. — 436 p. The Roman World 44 BC – AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city of Rome itself and in the rest of the empire, arguing that, despite long periods of...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2013. — 436 p. The Roman World 44 BC – AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city of Rome itself and in the rest of the empire, arguing that, despite long periods of...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — xvi + 418 p. The bimillennium of Augustus' death on 19 August 2014 commemorated not only the end of his life but also the beginning of a two-thousand-year reception history. This volume addresses the range and breadth of that history. Beginning with the Emperor's death and continuing through Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, the Middle...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2012. — 384 p. Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past — and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 178 p. Despite the fact that the Roman Republic came to an undeniable end in 31 BC with the accession of the emperor Augustus, the memory of the Republic persisted. This book explores how that memory manifested itself, serving as an avenue for dissent as well as imperial propaganda, before gradually fading over the course of the early Empire...
Routledge, 2002. — 191 p. The imperial succession at Rome was notoriously uncertain, and hereditary succession was preferred. But when the infamous emperor Domitian was assassinated in AD 6, he had no sons and had executed several family members who might have succeeded him; the situation provoked a dangerous crisis. John Grainger's detailed study looks at this period of...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 256 p. Egypt was the last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by Roman expansion. The Ptolemaic rulers had allied themselves to Rome while their rivals went down fighting. However, Cleopatra's famous love affair with Marc Antony ensured she was on the wrong side of the Roman civil war between him and Octavian (later to become Caesar...
Cambridge University Press, 1946. — 546 p. Between the time of Julius Caesar and the death of Augustus, Aes coinage was struck at many centres in the Empire. This pioneer work by Michael Grant, who has been President and Medallist of the Royal Numismatic Society, and Archer M. Huntington, Medallist of the American Numismatic Society, examines nearly all the known coins of this...
Gondrom Verlag, 1987. — 397 p. Michael Grant ieses Buch bringt Kurzbiographien der Zwölf Cäsaren: Julius Caesars und der ersten elf römischen Kaiser, die auf ihn folg ten. Es behandelt also den gleichen Zeitabschnit wie Suetons Leben der Cäsaren (De Vita Caesarum). Wenn ich es wage, das Thema des römischen Biographen wieder aufzunehmen, dann nicht in der kühnen Hoffnung, mich...
Hachette UK, 2015. — 320 p. The period between the accession of Marcus Aurelius in AD 161 and the death of Constantine the Great in 337 is often seen as little more than a protracted interval between the glories of the ancient world and the genesis of medieval Europe. This book shows a much more creative picture of this time - despite internal strife and wars along vast...
Hachette UK, 2015. — 461 p. This book gives an account of Rome and the lands under its rule between the accession of Marcus Aurelius and the death of Constantine the Great (AD 161-337). My aim has been to combine in a single volume a discussion of the most important political and economic events and the outstanding cultural and religious developments, with some attention to...
Routledge, 1999. — 121 p. In Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire, Michael Grant asserts that the fact that the Roman empire of the third century AD did not collapse is one of the miracles of history. He argues that at that time the empire seemed ripe for disintegration and expresses amazement that it continued, in the west, for another two hundred years, and in the east,...
Orion Publishing, 2011. — 400 p. A brilliant survey of the conquests and culture of the Romans from 133 BC to AD 217 — an era of unparalleled power when Rome made its greatest impact on the world. In this fresh, original interpretation of Roman history and culture, a distinguished classical scholar surveys the people and events that shaped the Roman Empire--the greatest...
London: Routledge, 2000. - 320 p. Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. However, his reign also illuminates the nature of the Julio-Claudian Principate. Nero's suicide brought to an end the dynasty Augustus had founded, and placed in jeopardy the political system he had devised. Miriam T. Griffin's authoratitive survey of Nero's...
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. – 299 p. ISBN: 0-292-73464-6 (cl.: alk. paper) Baetica, the present-day region of Andalusia in southern Spain, was the wealthiest province of the Roman Empire. Its society was dynamic and marked by upward social and economic mobility, as the imperial peace allowed the emergence of a substantial middle social and economic stratum. Indeed,...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 264 p. The Acta Alexandrinorum are a fascinating collection of texts, dealing with relations between the Alexandrians and the Roman emperors in the first century AD. This was a turbulent time in the life of the capital city of the new province of Egypt, not least because of tensions between the Greek and Jewish sections of the population. Dr...
University of California Press, 2003. — 231 p. A theoretically sophisticated and illuminating reading of Tacitus, especially the Histories, this work points to a new understanding of the logic of Roman rule during the early Empire. Tacitus, in Holly Haynes’ analysis, does not write about the reality of imperial politics and culture but about the imaginary picture that imperial...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2007. – 465 p. – (Impact of Empire. Vol. 7). ISSN: 1572-0500. ISBN: 978-90-04-16050-7 This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international thematic network Impact of Empire, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact that crises had on the development and functioning of the Roman Empire...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2008. – 209 p. – (Debates and Documents in Ancient History). ISBN: 978-0-7486-2303-7 (hardback) ISBN: 978-0-7486-2304-4 (paperback) This was a time of civil war, anarchy, intrigue, and assassination. Between 193 and 284 the Roman Empire knew more than twenty-five emperors, and an equal number of usurpers. All of them had some measure...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 507 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–921643–7. The idea for this Handbook was born during my conversations with Yaron Eliav and Zeev Weiss during the last five years, when we considered the creation of a new version of Samuel Krauss' multi‐volume Talmudische Archäologie. Such a new version remains a task of gargantuan proportions that will perhaps be...
Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. – 566 p. – (Oxford Classical Monographs). ISBN 978–0–19–957287–8 The control over marble and metal resources was of major importance to the Roman Empire. The emperor’s freedmen and slaves, officers and soldiers of the Roman army, equestrian officials, as well as convicts and free labour were seconded to mines and quarries...
Aarhus University Press, 2005. — 659 p. The study of Roman imperial statues has made remarkable strides in the last two decades. Yet the field's understandable focus on extant portraits has made it difficult to generalize accurately. Most notably, bronze was usually the material of choice, but its high scrap value meant that such statues were inevitably melted down, so that...
Doubleday, 2015. — 512 p. Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon — his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic — with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors. Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where...
Profile Books, 2011. — 224 p. The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year. Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was...
New Haven - London: Yale University Press, 2002. – 377 p. ISBN: 0-300-08856-6 (alk. paper: hbk.) When Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire in 30 B.C. after the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, its vast and mysterious frontier lands had an important impact on the commerce, politics, and culture of the empire. This engrossing book-part history and part gazetteer-focuses on...
Neil Wilson Publishing, 2009. — 184 p. In 209 AD the last Roman invasion of Scotland took place under Emperor Septimus Severus. Under constant attack from the natives of Caledonia, the Romans eventually gave up and returned to Rome as the Roman Empire began to crumble on all fronts. This book presents the story of Rome and its relationship to what is now called Scotland. The...
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2007. – 280 p. ISBN13: 978-0-472-11582-2 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN10: 0-472-11582-0 (cloth: alk. paper) The economy of the Roman Empire was predominantly agrarian: Roman landowners, agricultural laborers, and small tenant farmers were highly dependent upon one another for assuring stability. By examining the property rights...
Profile Books, 2011. — 384 p. Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who lived commonplace lives and left almost no trace in history - until now. But their words are preserved in literature,...
Profile Books, 2011. — 384 p. Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, and gladiators who lived commonplace lives and left almost no trace in history - until now. But their words are preserved in literature,...
Leiden - Boston: Bril, 2009. - 329 p. - (Mnemosyne Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; Vol. 308). The longest war of the Roman imperial period is the war Marcus Aurelius waged with the northern German and Sarmatian tribes. The best-known events of these wars were the lightning and rain miracles. Divine intervention saved the Roman troops, surrounded by...
Profile Books, 2016. — 386 p. Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes...
Profile Books, 2016. — 386 p. Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose and fell with sometimes...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. — xi + 203 p. Ancient authors emphasize dramatic moments in the life of Julia Domna, wife of Roman emperor Septimius Severus (193–211). They accuse her of ambition unforgivable in a woman, of instigating civil war to place her sons on the throne, and of resorting to incest to maintain her hold on power. In imperial propaganda, however,...
Routledge, 1996. — 154 p. In this fully revised and updated edition of Roman Pompeii, Dr. Ray Laurence looks at the latest archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of architect, geographer and social scientist. Enhancing our general understanding of the Roman world, this new edition includes new chapters that reveal how the young...
Vox.com, 2014. — 41 p. Two thousand years ago, on August 19, 14 AD, Caesar Augustus died. He was Rome's first emperor, having won a civil war more than 40 years earlier that transformed the dysfunctional Roman Republic into an empire. Under Augustus and his successors, the empire experienced 200 years of relative peace and prosperity. Here are 40 maps that explain the Roman...
Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2010. – 521 p. – (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 41). ISSN: 1566-2055. ISBN: 978-90-04-18335-3 (hard cover: alk. paper) Symposium Papers Stile und Ikonographien im kaiserzeitlichen Ägypten. M. Bergmann Un reçu de rations militaires contre paiement des publica. H. Cuvigny Archaeological Research in Roman Soknopaiou Nesos: Results and...
Longman, 2010. — 372 p. Throughout a long and spectacularly successful political life, the Emperor Augustus (63 BC — 14 CE) was a master of spin. Barbara Levick exposes the techniques which he used to disguise the ruthlessness of his rise to power and to enhance his successes once power was achieved. There was, she argues, less difference than might appear between the ambitious...
2nd Updated Edition — Routledge, 2015. — 286 p. Claudius became emperor after the assassination of Caligula, and was deified by his successor Nero in AD 54. Opinions of him have varied greatly over succeeding centuries, but he has mostly been caricatured as a reluctant emperor, hampered by a speech impediment, who preferred reading to ruling. Barbara Levick’s authoritative...
Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 272 p. : illustrations, maps. — (Women in Antiquity). The Roman empress Faustina the Elder (c. 97-140) and her daughter Faustina II (c. 130-175) have been subject to criticism from the earliest records, described in turn as fickle, unfaithful, and treasonous. Yet their husbands, the emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, have...
Taylor and Francis Group, 2007. — 285 p. This book covers Roman Empress Julia Domna’s (c.160 — 217 C.E.) life, and charts her travels throughout the Empire from Aswan to York during a period of profound upheaval, and seeks the truth about this woman who inspired such extreme and contrasting views, exposing the instability of our sources about her, and characterizing a...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 216 p. Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this book offers a fascinating history of Rome and the Roman peoples during the rule of the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Written in an easily accessible style, making it the ideal introduction to Augustan Rome for those with little previous knowledge Offers compelling insight into the workings of Roman...
Princeton University Press, 1993. — xv + 205 p. — (Magie Classical Publications). In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Discussed here, for example, are the ways predilections of a particular...
New Haven - London: Yale University Press, 2000. – 235 p. ISBN: 0-300-08254-1 (alk. paper) During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city design, clothing, and leisure and family activities. In his newest...
Brill, 2016. — 364 p. Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician , a collection of essays on this historian, is the first to appear in the new Brill series Historiography of Rome and Its Empire . The volume brings together case studies that highlight various aspects of Dio’s Roman History, focusing on previously ignored or misunderstood aspects of his narrative. The...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 176 p. This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the 3rd-century-AD Greco-Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio, whose work, although imperfectly preserved in 80 books, is of fundamental importance to our understanding of Roman history. It is said that Dio is not one of the best ancient historians and his Roman history, due to its...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — ix + 238 p. Tacitus’ narrative of 69 CE, the year of the four emperors, is famous for its description of a series of coups that sees one man after another crowned. Many scholars seem to read Tacitus as though he wrote only about the constricted world of imperial Rome and the machinations of emperors, courtiers, and victims of the...
University of California Press, 1999. - 259 p. How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This illuminating book draws on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs. From this evidence, Susan P. Mattern reevaluates the roots,...
Pen & Sword Military, 2011. — 188 p. Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. Fortunately his career was a remarkably eventful and colorful one. With a knack for being caught up in big events and emerging unscathed despite some hairy...
Thames and Hudson, 2006. — 296 p. This engaging new study reviews the long history of the Julian and Claudian families in the Roman Republic and the social and political background of Rome. At the heart of the account are the lives of six men — Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero — men who mastered Rome and then changed it from a democracy to a...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. English summary: Bodies are not historical constants and their perception and their symbolic value can vary considerably. This is especially true for the early Roman Principate, when a monarchical body appeared with the emperor that moved in a supposedly republican society. While during the late Republican period the external appearance of Roman...
Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2011. – 321 p. – (Impact of Empire. Vol. 12). ISBN: 978-90-04-20359-4 (hbk.: acid-free paper) ISSN: 1572-0500. Notes to the Reader Changing Emperorship: Setting the Scene Factors Influencing Emperorship between AD 193 and 284 Consequences for the Position of the Emperor The Impact of Crises on the Position of the Senatorial Elite Establishing the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — viii + 419 p. — (KLIO. Beiträge z. Alten Geschichte — Beihefte. Neue Folge, Bd. 30). This study takes an entirely new look at the emperor Antoninus Pius and examines his activities in the court, senate, and the plebs urbana , the dynastic staging of the Domus Augusta , and Antoninus’ role as military commander. It develops a contextualized picture of...
Oxford University Press, 1984. — 227 p. Caesar Augustus - This book presents seven fresh and original views of Emperor Caesar Augustus by an international group of scholars. The papers collected here consider the image which he presented of himself, how historians and poets reacted to him, the nature of his rule, and the representation of the newly-established monarch among his...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 336 p. In this volume, Milnor considers how the fragments of textual graffiti which survive on the walls of the Roman city of Pompeii reflect and refract the literary world from which they emerged. Focusing in particular on the writings which either refer to or quote canonical authors directly, Milnor uncovers the influence - in diction, style,...
Routledge, 2014. — xxii + 454 p. — (Routledge Revivals). In Pannonia and Upper Moesia , first published 1974, András Mócsy surveys the Middle Danube Provinces from the latest pre-Roman Iron Age up to the beginning of the Great Migrations. His primary concern is to develop a general synthesis of the archaeological and historical researches in the Danube Basin, which lead to a...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 612 p. In The Second Jewish Revolt: The Bar Kokhba War, 132-136 CE. , Menahem Mor offers a detailed account on the Bar Kokhba Revolt in an attempt to understand the second revolt against the Romans. Since the Bar Kokhba Revolt did not have a historian who devoted a comprehensive book to the event, Mor used a variety of historical materials...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-19512468-2; ISBN10: 0-19-512468-5. The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history: a time of assassinations and civil wars, of armies so out of control that they had no qualms about occupying the city of Rome, and of ambitious...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 395 p. Morality is one of the fundamental structures of any society, enabling complex groups to form, negotiate their internal differences and persist through time. In the first book-length study of Roman popular morality, Dr Morgan argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of people across the Empire. Her study draws on proverbs,...
Cambridge Ancient History, 1996. — 223 p. This book studies the growth of the city of Rome and the effects of the city's demands for food and migrants on the economy of Italy. It seeks to question the idea that all great cities, especially in the ancient world, were parasites on the societies that supported them. On the contrary, the growth of Rome promoted development in...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. Die Verflechtung von Reichtum und politischer Macht bestimmte die Mechanismen und Spielregeln der Gesellschaft des Imperium Romanum. Unter diesem Aspekt werden zunächst die Einbindung der zeitgenössischen Autoren in das soziale Gefüge der Kaiserzeit, sodann deren Aussagen über Erwerb, Zusammensetzung, Investitionen und Maßstäbe des Reichtums beim...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Die Studie besch ftigt sich mit einem fuer die Gesellschaft und die Wirtschaft der r mischen Kaiserzeit h chst bedeutsamen Aspekt. Damals wurden die Zinsen zur allt glichen Erscheinung in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen, und dies in Dimensionen, wie sie in der Republik unbekannt waren. Die privaten wie die ffentlichen Bereiche von Zins- und Kreditwesen...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 363 p. — (History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 365). The Roman Empire may be properly described as a consortium of cities (and not as set of proto national states). From the late Republic and into the Principate, the Roman elite managed the empire through insititutional and personal ties to the communities of the Empire. Especially...
Bellona, 2009. — 270 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Roman Siege of Masada was one of the final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 72 to 73 CE on and around a large hilltop in current-day Israel. The siege is known to history via a single source, Flavius Josephus, a Jewish rebel leader captured by the Romans, in whose service he became a historian. According to...
Fortress Press, 2013. — 224 p. Peter Oakes combines archeology and biblical studies to give the reader a fresher, deeper understanding of Paul's letter to the Romans. An investigation of the archaeological evidence from Pompeii helps us to think about the ways in which Paul s letter may have been understood by different people - such as a slave girl, cabinet-maker-cum-surgeon...
Oxon - New York: Routledge, 2007. – 263 p. ISBN 0-203-94583-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0–415–41252–8 (hbk) ISBN10: 0–203–94583–2 (ebk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–41252–0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978–0–203–94583–4 (ebk) «Dacia» examines the way the Roman conquest and organisation of the central core of the province of Dacia impacted on the native settlement pattern and society. It analyses...
Pegasus, 2017. — 416 p. An intellectual adventure through ancient France revealing how Caesar’s conquest of Gaul changed the course of French culture, forever transforming modern Europe. Julius Caesar's conquests in Gaul in the 50s BC were bloody, but the cultural revolution they brought in their wake forever transformed the ancient Celtic culture of that country. After Caesar,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 261 p. Religion is a particularly useful field within which to study Roman self-definition, for the Romans considered themselves to be the most religious of all peoples and ascribed their imperial success to their religiosity. This study builds on the observation that the Romans were remarkably open to outside influences to explore how...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 410 p. The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic developments alike are attributed to him. This book deliberately and provocatively shifts the focus off Augustus while still looking at events of his time....
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 363 p. The first two centuries AD are conventionally thought of as the "golden age" of the Roman Empire, yet Italy in this period has often been seen as being in a state of decline and even crisis. This book investigates the relationships between city and countryside in Italy in the early Empire, using evidence from literary texts and...
Roman Imperial Titulature and Chronology, A.D. 235-284 — Brill, 1989. — 543 p. — (Studia Amstelodamensia ad Epigraphicam, ius Antiquum et Papyrologicam pertinentia, Volume: 29). — ISBN: 9789050630344 This study is a basic work of reference for the history of the Roman Empire during the midthird century A.D. The book consists of two principal parts. Part two, upon which the...
Routledge, 2001. — 265 p. Fully illustrated, The Roman House in Britain is the essential resource on how houses were built, used and understood in Roman Britain. Authoritative, original, this volume draws on recent archaeological work and places the findings in the context of classical scholarship. This work explores three main aspects of Romano-British buildings: * general...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. — 231 p. — (History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 340) Commerce in the Roman Empire of the first three centuries CE operated within a well-established legal framework provided by Roman law. This framework was the product of both legal theory and legal practice. Centuries of Praetorian modification of the ancient "ius civile," augmented by...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 496 p. The words Pax Augusta - or Pax Romana - evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year between 31 BC and AD 14 the Roman Army was in action somewhere, either fighting enemies beyond the frontier in punitive raids or for outright conquest; or suppressing...
Pen & Sword Military, 2011. — 176 p. Drusus the Elder (Nero Claudius Drusus) was regarded by the Romans as the first conqueror of Germania (western Germany) and a hero in the mould of Alexander the Great. Yet there has never been a full volume dedicated to his remarkable story, achievements and legacy. Eager for Glory brings this heroic figure back to life for a modern...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 344 p. Marcus Agrippa personified the term 'right-hand man'. As Emperor Augustus' deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in laying the foundations of the Pax Romana for the next two hundred years - but he served always in the knowledge he would never rule in his own name. Why he did so, and never...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. - 290 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Caesar Augustus promoted a modest image of himself as the first among equals (princeps), a characterization that was as recognized with the ancient Romans as it is with many scholars today. Paul Rehak argues against this impression of humility and suggests that Augustus sought immortality - an...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. – 232 p. The Roman Empire has been an object of fascination for the past two millennia, and the story of how a small city in central Italy came to dominate the whole of the Mediterranean basin, most of modern Europe and the lands of Asia Minor and the Middle East has often been told. It has provided the model for European empires from...
Head of Zeus, 2015. — 272 p. It is AD 130. Rome is the dazzling heart of a vast empire and Hadrian its most complex and compelling ruler. Faraway Britannia is one of the Romans' most troublesome provinces: here the sun is seldom seen and 'the atmosphere in the country is always gloomy'. What awaits the traveller to Britannia? How will you get there? What do you need to pack?...
Bellona, 2005. — 286 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, described as the Varian Disaster by Roman historians, took place in the Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE, when an alliance of Germanic tribes ambushed and destroyed three Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. The alliance was led by Arminius, a Germanic officer of Varus's...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. - 272 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the Historia Augusta is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. Historians of late antiquity have struggled to explain the fictional date and authorship of the work and its bizarre...
Cátedra, 1989. — 534 p. La historia de Roma es la historia de la ciudad como entidad urbana y la historia de los estados e instituciones de los cuales ha sido capital o sede a lo largo del tiempo. Se puede dividir en prehistoria, Roma Antigua, Roma Medieval, Roma Moderna y Contemporánea; o bien en Roma Antigua, Roma Pontificia y Roma italiana contemporánea. Censura y represión...
Princeton – Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. – 332 p. ISBN: 0-691-05021-X (alk. paper) Rome’s transition from a republican system of government to an imperial regime comprised more than a century of civil upheaval and rapid institutional change. Yet the establishment of a ruling dynasty, centered around a single leader, came as a cultural and political shock to Rome’s...
Routledge, 2001. — 219 p. Roman Edessa offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa, Turkey), which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the East and the West. Among the areas explored are: * the cultural life and antecedents of Edessa * Edessene religion * the extent of the Hellenization at Edessa before the advent of Christianity *...
Second Edition, revised by P. M. Fraser. — Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1998. — xxxi+541 p., 80 plates. Abbreviations of Titles of Periodicals. Italy and the Civil War. Augustus and the Policy of Restoration and Reconstruction. The Julii and Claudii. The Rule of the Flavians and the enlightened Monarchy of the Antoinines. The Roman Empire under the Flavians and the Antonines. The...
Second Edition, revised by P. M. Fraser. — Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1998. — xxxi+541 p., 80 plates. Abbreviations of Titles of Periodicals. Italy and the Civil War. Augustus and the Policy of Restoration and Reconstruction. The Julii and Claudii. The Rule of the Flavians and the enlightened Monarchy of the Antoinines. The Roman Empire under the Flavians and the Antonines. The...
Second Edition, revised by P. M. Fraser. — Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1998. — x+304 p. Abbreviations of Titles of Periodicals. List of Emperors from Augustus to Constantine. Ancient Writers. Inscriptions and Papyri.
Second Edition, revised by P. M. Fraser. — Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1998. — x+304 p. Abbreviations of Titles of Periodicals. List of Emperors from Augustus to Constantine. Ancient Writers. Inscriptions and Papyri.
Leiden – Boston – Köln: Brill, 1999. – 422 p. – (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition. Vol. 23). ISSN 0166-1302. ISBN 90-04-11271-5 Relying on a variety of literary, documentary and archaeological sources, this work explores the Roman military supply system from the Punic Wars to the end of the Principate. Each chapter is devoted to a different aspect of logistics:...
Amsterdam University Press, 2004. — 291 p. The study of ethnicity and ethnogenesis Roman imperial power and the ethnic dynamics in the Lower Rhine frontier Ethnicity, texts and material culture. Methodological considerations Structure of the text The adoption of coinage The emergence of regional sanctuaries The development of a major nucleated settlement at Kessel/Lith The mass...
Routledge, 2001. — 433 p. Delatores (political informants) and accusatores (malicious prosecutors) were a major part of life in imperial Rome. Contemporary sources depict them as cruel and heartless mercenaries, who bore the main responsibility for institutionalising and enforcing the 'tyranny' of the infamous rulers of the early empire, such as Nero, Caligula and Domitian....
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 359 p. Writing and Empire in Tacitus examines how Tacitus' historiographical career serves as an argument about his personal autonomy and social value under the peculiar political conditions of the early Roman Empire. Following the arc of his career from Agricola through Histories to Annals, this book focuses on ways in which Tacitus' writing...
Leiden: Brill, 2009. — 392 p. While there is now renewed interest in the history of Athens under the Roman empire, the Augustan and Julio-Claudian periods remain relatively neglected in terms of extended study. Thus the only comprehensive historical works on the period and its epigraphy remain those of Paul Graindor, which were published before the discovery of the Athenian...
Fortress Press, 1993. — 177 p. Short Titles The Panegyricus: Preliminary Issues The Use of the Panegyricus by Scholars The Senatorial Perspective on the Principate Evidence for the Senatorial Perspective Pliny the Rhetorician and the Senatorial Perspective Pliny Discusses the Gods Pliny Discusses the Gods: Deified Emperors Pliny Discusses the Relationship between the Living...
2nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 338 p. Robin Seager traces the life of Tiberius from his birth in Rome in 42 BC during the death throes of the Republic, through his military career and reign as Emperor, to his death in ad 37. Tiberius’ complex character is the key to understanding his reign. Challenging the common ancient view of Tiberius as a consummate hypocrite,...
Routledge, 2003. — 296 p. In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this family in Roman society. The family is placed within the social and historical context of the transition from republic to empire, from Augustus' rise to sole power into the early reign of his successor...
Routledge, 2003. — 296 p. In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this family in Roman society. The family is placed within the social and historical context of the transition from republic to empire, from Augustus' rise to sole power into the early reign of his successor...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — xv + 808 p. This comprehensive general commentary on the nine books of the younger Pliny's private letters — which cover nearly aspect of Roman life except warfare — offers a self-contained discussion of each letter or group of associated letters and their rich array of information about the author's social, political, and legal life and times.
Second edition. — London; New York: Taylor & Francis, 2004. — 161 p. From renowned and respected author David Shotter, this updated and expanded edition of Roman Britain offers a concise introduction to this period, drawing on the wealth of recent scholarship to explain the progress of the Romans and their objectives in conquering Britain. Key topics discussed include: the...
Praeger Publishing, 2001. — 216 p. Sicker sheds new light on the political circumstances surrounding the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. He places the 300-year history of Judaea from the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba, 167 B.C.E. — 135 C.E. in the context of Roman history and Judaea's geostrategic role in Rome's geopolitics in the Middle East. However, because of the...
The Catholic University of America Press, 2001. — 177 p. Among the voices that come across the centuries from early Christianity, few speak with sharper accents, or in more highly colored tones, than that of Tertullian. First in the Latin-speaking West to leave a major corpus of writings, Tertullian is also the first in the West to address in both treatise and tract the issues...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 202 p. The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armour available at that time. This is the story...
Leiden: Brill, 1976. — 613 p. It is remarkable that Judaism could develop given the domination by Rome in Palestine over the centuries. Smallwood traces Judaism's constantly shifting political, religious, and geographical boundaries under Roman rule from Pompey to Diocletian, that is, from the first century BCE through the third century CE. From a long-standing nationalistic...
London - New York: Routledge, 2004. – 413 p. ISBN 0-203-45159-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-45721-8 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-23943-5 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-23944-3 (pbk) Illustrations Introduction and acknowledgements The third century: the nature of the problem Sources of evidence Through a glass darkly: limitations of the evidence Emperors and usurpers: 180–260 Empire...
Routledge, 2013. — 184 p. This is the first ever study to assess Emperor Domitian from a psychological point of view and covers his entire career from the early years and the civil war AD through the imperial rule to the dark years and the psychology of suspicion. Pat Southern strips away hyperbole and sensationalism from the literary record, revealing an individual who caused...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2014. — xx + 378 p. The first Emperor of Rome holds a perennial fascination for anyone with an interest in the Romans and their Empire. Augustus was a truly remarkable man who brought peace after many years of civil wars and laid the foundations of an Empire that lasted for nearly five centuries. Even today the Roman world still underpins modern...
Pegasus Books, 2019. — 274 p. Sister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty - and of Rome itself, at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless, and political zenith. In her own time, she was recognized as a woman of unparalleled power. Beautiful and...
Simon & Schuster, 2019. — 432 p. Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople. Barry Strauss , professor of history and classics at...
Franz Steiner, 1993. In einem breiten Bild zeitgenössischer Quellen, mentaler Strukturen und historischer Ereignisse werden wesentliche Aspekte eines von traditionellen Epochen- und Verständnismustern gelösten Zugangs zum sog. 3. Jahrhundert skizziert.
Reissue. — Oxford University Press, 2002. — xiii + 568 p. The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 368 p. Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any Roman Emperor. Many ancient historians were very hostile and Edward Gibbon later dubbed him ‘the common enemy of mankind’. Yet his reign was considered by at least one Roman author to be the apogee of the Roman Empire. Guilty of many murders and massacres (including his own brother, ex-wife and...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 368 p. Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any Roman Emperor. Many ancient historians were very hostile and Edward Gibbon later dubbed him ‘the common enemy of mankind’. Yet his reign was considered by at least one Roman author to be the apogee of the Roman Empire. Guilty of many murders and massacres (including his own brother, ex-wife and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 256 p. This is the only fully illustrated military life of the Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268). Considered the most blatantly military man of all of the soldier emperors of the third century, Gallienus is the emperor in Harry Sidebottom’s best-selling Warrior of Rome novels. Gallienus faced more simultaneous usurpations and...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 317 p. While the importance of migration in contemporary society is universally acknowledged, historical analyses of migration put contemporary issues into perspective. Migration is a phenomenon of all times, but it can take many different forms. The Roman case is of real interest as it presents a situation in which the volume of migration was...
Princeton University Press, 1984. — xvii + 588 p. Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the period, this great council has not previously received such scholarly treatment. Offering a fresh approach to major ancient authors (Pliny and Tacitus...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. Es geht um die These, da das Volk von Rom politische Macht ausueben konnte, indem es durch die Demonstration von Zustimmung, Sympathie und Loyalit t fuer einen Kaiser einen herrschaftslegitimierenden Einflu nahm; durch die erfolgte ffentliche Meinungsbildung zugunsten eines Kaisers trug es zu dessen Machtsicherung bei. Umgekehrt war es der Plebs...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 326 p. The bleak steppe and rolling highlands of inner Anatolia were one of the most remote and underdeveloped parts of the Roman empire. Still today, for most historians of the Roman world, ancient Phrygia largely remains terra incognita. Yet thanks to a startling abundance of Greek and Latin inscriptions on stone, the cultural history of...
Overlook, 2014. — 192 p. Marcus Sidonius Falx is an average Roman citizen. Born of a relatively well-off noble family, he lives on a palatial estate in Campania, dines with senators and generals, and, like all of his ancestors before him, owns countless slaves. Having spent most of his life managing his servants — many of them prisoners from Rome’s military conquests — he...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 144 p. The Roman emperor Commodus wanted to kill a rhinoceros with a bow and arrow, and he wanted to do it in the Colosseum. Commodus’s passion for hunting animals was so fervent that he dreamt of shooting a tiger, an elephant, and a hippopotamus; his prowess was such that people claimed he never missed when hurling his javelin or firing...
Oxford University Press, 1991. — xv + 578 p. Marriage, a fundamental institution in human societies, takes varying forms. This book explores the practicalities, the cultural assumptions, and the affective possibilities of marriage during the later Republic and the Principate (c. 100 BC - AD 235). It takes a fresh view of the interaction of law and reality within Roman marriage,...
ACLS Humanities E-Book, 2008. — 220 p. Godfrey Turton sums up why anybody would be interested in the era of the Syrian Princesses (a.k.a. the Severan Dynasty) by talking about how it would make for a great movie (of made-for cable miniseries). At this point, the Roman Empire was effectively ruled by women, largely the mothers of the young emperors themselves. Much of this book...
Routledge, 2017. — 200 p. In Juvenal’s Global Awareness Osman Umurhan applies theories of globalization to an investigation of Juvenal’s articulation and understanding of empire, imperialism and identity. Umurhan explains how the increased interconnectivity between different localities, ethnic and political, shapes Juvenal’s view of Rome as in constant flux and motion....
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2004. – 472 p. – (Monumenta Graeca et Romana. Vol. 10). ISSN: 0169-8850. ISBN: 90-04-13577-4 Developments, Implications, and Precedents Caligula, Milonia Caesonia and Julia Drusilla Nero and Poppaea Other Julio-Claudians Julia Maior Agrippa Postumus Julia Minor Agrippina Maior Nero and Drusus Caesar Sejanus Livilla Valeria Messalina Agrippina Minor...
University of California Press, 2015. — 344 p. — (Transformation of the Classical Heritage). The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes,...
Basic Books, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0465093817, ISBN13: 978-0465093816. A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and...
Routledge, 1993. — 200 p. The Roman Conquest of Britain in AD 43 was one of the most important turning points in the history of the British Isles. It left a legacy still discernible today in the form of archaeological remain, road networks, land divisions and even language.In his much-acclaimed trilogy, now up-dated and revised, Dr Webster builds up a fascinating and lively...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. — 400 p. This classic work of scholarship scrutinizes all aspects of Roman military forces throughout the Roman Empire, in Europe, North Africa, and the Near and Middle East. Graham Webster describes the Roman army’s composition, frontier systems, camps and forts, activities in the field (including battle tactics, signaling, and medical...
Revised ed. — London, New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis e-Library), 2003. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-203-46284-X; ISBN: 0-203-77108-7 (Adobe eReader Format); ISBN: 0-415-21828-4. Gives the background of Britain before the Roman invasion of 43 AD and goes on to describe the Roman forces, the personalities involved, the actual invasion - including the crucial battle on the Medway -...
Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1930. — 331 p. Arthur Weigall chronicles the life and reign of the Roman Emperor Nero (37 - 68 CE.), who in character was a strange mix of paradoxes; artistic, sporting, brutal, weak, sensual, erratic, extravagant, sadistic, bisexual-and later in life almost certainly deranged. One of history's more intriguing stories.
Routledge, 2014. — iii + 311 p. — (Routledge Revivals). The Spaniards in Rome: From Marius to Domitian , first published in 1990, examines the expansion and revitalisation of the Roman aristocracy in the later Republic and early Empire, focusing specifically on the political careers of men from the provinces of the Iberian Peninsula. The indigenous peoples of Spain were...
London - New York: Routledge, 2000. – 267 p. – (Roman Imperial Biographies). ISBN 0-203-46899-6 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-77723-9 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-410-23228-7 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-232620-7 (pbk) «.unfolds with masterly skill the tale of the conflict and intrigue of this critical time of transition from the Julio-Claudians to the Flavian Emperors.The excellent and...
Princetown University Press, 2001. — 347 p. The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. — 272 p. ISBN: 0393326438 Language: English Description:The previously untold story of the watershed battle that changed the course of Western history. In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. In der r mischen Kaiserzeit waren privat motivierte Ortswechsel wesentlich h ufiger, als es allgemeinhin angenommen wird. Die vorliegende Edition dokumentiert dies durch mehr als 670 Inschriften mit Hinweis auf Personen, die entweder in eine der vier gallischen Provinzen zugewandert sind bzw. innerhalb dieser einen Ortswechsel vorgenommen haben, oder...
St Martins Press, 1999. — 238 p. From 27 B.C. to A.D. 117, the Roman dreams of boundless empire began to falter. The very size of their conquests made them hard to manage, and the caesars also had to accept the scale of intractability of the problems posed by the barbarians. The period covered by the book is one of great change and the opening of a new era. For the once mighty...
San Diego: ReferencePoint Press, Inc., 2014. — 96 p. — (History’s great structures). — ISBN: 978-1-60152-540-6 The Roman Colosseum is the most remarkable remnant of the mighty Roman Empire, which remains one of the greatest realms in world history. Completed in 80 AD, the Colosseum was the site of countless spectacular performances, most famously the bloody games that pitted...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 175 p. Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material. Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the creation of new histories in the Roman West...
Harvard University Press, 1998. - 251 p. Pompeii's tragedy is our windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illustrated book conducts us through the captured wonders of Pompeii, evoking at every turn the life of the city as it was 2,000 years ago. When Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. its lava preserved not...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 624 p. A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural nuances of Rome’s second Imperial dynasty. The Flavian Age, while lasting only 27 years (69–96 CE), was a crucial phase in the evolution of the Roman Empire. In addition to addressing the social and...
Cambridge - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. – 206 p. – (Greek Culture of the Roman World). ISBN13: 978-0-511-51791-4 eBook (NetLibrary) ISBN13: 978-0-521-51930-4 hardback In the flrst two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces experienced a proliferation of elite public generosity unmatched in their previous or later history. In this study, Arjan Zuiderhoek...
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