Oxford University Press, 2024. — 240 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). Offers an in-depth narrative of one of history's most dysfunctional dynasties. Through the approachable history of the sons of Constantine, William Lewis offers an original reappraisal of fourth-century politics. Introduces several new arguments that will change the way Constantine's sons are...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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, 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 [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.
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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, 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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).
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. — 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...
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...
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...
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...
Journal of Roman Studies. — 1989. — № 79. — p. 11-25. If the Atintani were an Illyrian tribe, they lived north of the Via Egnatia; for they were not one of the Illyrian tribes south of that line which were listed by Strabo (326). If the Atintanes were an Epirotic tribe, they lived inland of the Epirote coast which was defined as extending from the Ceraunian Mountains to the...
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.
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. — 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brill, 2013. — 302 p. — (Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Lille, June 23–25, 2011). Integration in the empire under the political control of the city of Rome, her princeps, and the different authorities in the provinces and cities includes processes of inclusion and exclusion. These multifaceted processes take place at various...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
University of Exeter, 2009. — 254 p. Roman emperors, the details of their lives and reigns, their triumphs and failures and their representation in our sources are all subjects which have never failed to attract scholarly attention. Therefore, in view of the resurgence of scholarly interest in ancient magic in the last few decades, it is curious that there is to date no...
University of Michigan, 2015. — 263 p. In this dissertation, I investigate the multi-cultural community of soldiers and their families that comprised the Roman imperial institution of the Auxilia, military units recruited initially from non-citizen provincials, and how their everyday experiences shaped Roman ideas of soldier, “barbarian,” and Romanness. Many scholars believe...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
2002, Facts On File, Inc. N.Y., This guide covers the history of Ancient Rome from Augustus to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The book contains more than 3500 articles.
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,...
University of Nottingham, 2005. — 232 p. This study of legio XX Valeria Victrix combines a prosopographical and historical approach to the study of the legion as a whole. Epigraphic and historical evidence is presented for all those individuals known to have served with the Twentieth Legion in their various capacities. Sources are quoted, with translation, for each of these and...
University of Nottingham, 2005. — 336 p. This study of legio XX Valeria Victrix combines a prosopographical and historical approach to the study of the legion as a whole. Epigraphic and historical evidence is presented for all those individuals known to have served with the Twentieth Legion in their various capacities. Sources are quoted, with translation, for each of these and...
University of Oxford, 1980. — 451 p. In classical times the military value of the Semitic peoples was often called into doubt. A superficial examination does not support the charges of the classical writers. This thesis sets out to examine the military contribution made by the native population of the province of Syria to the non-citizen regiments of the Roman army....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bloomsbury, 2015. — 182 p. Despite his critical role in the western Roman Empire during the early fifth century AD, Bonifatius remains a neglected figure in the history of the late Empire. The Last of the Romans presents a new political and military biography of Bonifatius, analysing his rise through the higher echelons of imperial power and examining themes such as the role of...
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...
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...
University of British Columbia, 1997. — 290 p. The imperial praetorian guard was an elite unit of the Roman army, whose primary responsibility was to safeguard the emperor and his family. Adapted from a republican institution by Augustus, it in essence formed the personal army of the emperor. Yet, within a very short time, the praetorians became responsible for specialized...
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...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 352 p. This book analyses the physical, social, and cultural history of Rome in late antiquity. Between AD 270 and 535, the former capital of the Roman empire experienced a series of dramatic transformations in its size, appearance, political standing, and identity, as emperors moved to other cities and the Christian church slowly became its...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...