Routledge, 2018. — 290 p. This book, like the volume on "Society and Politics in Ancient Rome," deals with the life of the common people, with their language and literature, their occupations and amusements, and with their social, political, and economic conditions. We are interested in the common people of Rome because they made the Roman Empire what it was. They carried the...
Routledge, 2001. — 202 p. The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire. Yet few people have questioned just how the Romans - both military and civilians - travelled, or examined their geographical understanding in an era which offered a greatly increased potential for moving around,...
Routledge, 2001. — 202 p. The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire. Yet few people have questioned just how the Romans - both military and civilians - travelled, or examined their geographical understanding in an era which offered a greatly increased potential for moving around, and...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 346 p. The papyri of Egypt offer a rich and complex picture of this important Roman province and provide an unparalleled insight into how a Roman province actually worked. They also afford a valuable window into ancient economic behaviour and everyday life. This study is the first systematic treatment of the role of land transport within the...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 346 p. The papyri of Egypt offer a rich and complex picture of this important Roman province and provide an unparalleled insight into how a Roman province actually worked. They also afford a valuable window into ancient economic behaviour and everyday life. This study is the first systematic treatment of the role of land transport within the...
University of Texas Press, 2011. — 284 p. With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centred on the ways in which ancient Roman historians consciously or unconsciously denigrated non-Romans. Similarly, contemporary scholars have downplayed...
Teaching Company Press, 2019. — 276 p. In 31 BCE, on an otherwise unremarkable afternoon in the Mediterranean, the Roman general Octavian surveyed the aftermath of the ferocious Battle of Actium, where he’d defeated his rival Mark Antony in a war for control of Rome. This moment, in which a military leader rests and reflects on his next move toward becoming the sole leader of...
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. — 509 S. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien 31). Vorwort Das Heer im sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Gefüge des Imperium Romanum Lukas de Blois: Army and Society in the Late Roman Republic: Professionalism and the Role of the Military Middle Cadre Géza Alfoldy: Das Heer in der Sozialstruktur des Römischen...
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...
De Gruyter, 1995. —360 p. — (Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte 45). In der 1968 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bände weisen eine große Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder gattungsgeschichtlichen philologischen Untersuchungen...
Papers in Honour of Professor Sir Fergus Millar FBA. — Brepols Publishers, 2007. — 244 p. — (Studia Antiqua Australiensia 3). This is the first of two volumes of papers by scholars actively engaged in the study of the Roman East in honour of Professor Fergus Millar FBA, formerly Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford and the leading scholar of Roman...
Routledge, 1995. — 272 p. The province of Egypt provides unique archaeological and documentary evidence for the study of the Roman army. In this fascinating social history Richard Alston examines the economic, cultural, social and legal aspects of a military career, illuminating the life and role of the individual soldier in the army.Soldier and Society in Roman Eygpt provides a...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. — 176 p. Law is a particularly fruitful means by which to investigate the relationship between religion and state. It is the mechanism by which the Roman state and its European successors have regulated religion, in the twin actions of constraining religious institutions to particular social spaces and of releasing control over such spaces to those...
University of California Press, 2000. — 520 p. The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical...
University of California Press, 2000. — 520 p. The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 232 S. — (Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 68). At the end of the 2nd century AD the urban network of the Roman Empire was subject to weakness and crisis. We know this on one hand through decrees from the Flavian era, comments of Pliny the Younger on the financial problems of some cities and on the other hand through notices in the...
Goldmann Verlag, 2014. — 384 p. — ISBN 978-3-641-13411-2. Wie liebten die alten Römer? Küssten die Leute damals genauso wie wir? Wie verführten Römer und Römerinnen einander vor 2000 Jahren? Und was passierte unter der Bettdecke, wenn zwei Menschen im Alten Rom verliebt waren? Gab es Verhütungsmittel? Reizwäsche? Und wie versuchte man, den Partner zu binden? Wie stand es um...
Goldmann Verlag, 2014. — 384 S. — ISBN 978-3-641-13411-2. Wie liebten die alten Römer? Küssten die Leute damals genauso wie wir? Wie verführten Römer und Römerinnen einander vor 2000 Jahren? Und was passierte unter der Bettdecke, wenn zwei Menschen im Alten Rom verliebt waren? Gab es Verhütungsmittel? Reizwäsche? Und wie versuchte man, den Partner zu binden? Wie stand es um...
Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013. — 412 p. In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by its size, stretching from Scotland to Kuwait, from the Sahara to the North Sea. What was life...
Golden House Publications, 2004. — 198 p. Accompanying an exhibition held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from September 2004 to May 2005, this volume contains more than one hundred objects which reflect the earliest episode of Egyptomania. Sally-Ann Ashton explores the Egyptian objects that were taken to and received in Italy and how this spawned a tradition of copying...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 242 p. If poor individuals have always been with us, societies have not always seen the poor as a distinct social group. But within the Roman world, from at least the Late Republic onwards, the poor were an important force in social and political life and how to treat the poor was a topic of philosophical as well as political discussion. This...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 412 p. Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds, while its uniquely fertile lands helped to feed the imperial capitals at Rome and then Constantinople. The cultural and religious landscape of Egypt today owes much to...
London – New York: Routledge, 2000. – 544 p. ISBN: 0-415-11376-8 (Print Edition) ISBN: 0-203-02322-6 Master e-book ISBN: ISBN: 0-203-14202-0 (Glassbook Format) In this lavishly illustrated and arresting study, Warwick Ball presents the story of Romeʼs overwhelming fascination with the East through a coverage of the historical, architectural and archaeological evidence...
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 culture...
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...
Routledge, 2001. – 544 p. In this lavishly illustrated and arresting study, Warwick Ball presents the story of Romeʼs overwhelming fascination with the East through a coverage of the historical, architectural and archaeological evidence unparalleled in both breadth and detail. This was a fascination of the new world for the old, and of the mundane for the exotic – a love affair...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 594 p. This new edition of Rome in the East expands on the seminal work of the first edition, and examines the lasting impact of the near Eastern influence on Rome on our understanding of the development of European culture. Warwick Ball explores modern issues as well as ancient, and overturns conventional ideas about the spread of European...
Pen & Sword Military, 2017. — 214 p. This book gives an account of the Roman relationship with Persia and how it was shaped by the actions of Alexander the Great long before the events. Numerous Roman emperors led armies eastward against the Persians, seeking to emulate or exceed the glorious conquests of Alexander. Some achieved successes but more often the result was ignominious...
Routledge, 2022. — 224 p. Ancient society was founded on slavery. And it is an ill-sounding word. It brings with it the jangle of chains and the crack of the whip and the scream of victims not only from the ancient world of the Mediterranean. It calls forth impassioned declarations upon the tyranny of empire, and the exploitation of the native, eloquent perorations on liberty...
Pen & Sword History, 2023. — 208 p. Roman Emperors is a concise chronological guide to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire. It covers the period from the establishment of the Empire by Augustus in 27 BCE to the abdication of Romulus Augustus in 476 CE, an event that marks the official end of the existence of the Roman Empire as a political entity in Western Europe. After a...
Pen & Sword History, 2023. — 208 p. Roman Emperors is a concise chronological guide to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire. It covers the period from the establishment of the Empire by Augustus in 27 BCE to the abdication of Romulus Augustus in 476 CE, an event that marks the official end of the existence of the Roman Empire as a political entity in Western Europe. After a...
Mohr Siebeck, 2001. — 384 p. The religious history of Palestine has not yet been studied as that of an ordinary, Roman province. Until now, scholars have mainly highlighted the two, monotheistic religions, Judaism and Christianism. If Palestinian uniqueness comes actually from them, pagan Palestine little differed from the rest of the Roman - especially eastern - world and was...
Mohr Siebeck, 2001. — 384 p. The religious history of Palestine has not yet been studied as that of an ordinary, Roman province. Until now, scholars have mainly highlighted the two, monotheistic religions, Judaism and Christianism. If Palestinian uniqueness comes actually from them, pagan Palestine little differed from the rest of the Roman - especially eastern - world and was...
Tubingen, 1898. — VII, 594 s.
Diese hervorragende und umfassende populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung (der 2. Auflage, Tübingen 1893) des römischen Lebens im Altertum widerspiegelt in 11 Kapiteln, durch zahlreiche Tafeln und Textabbildungen unterstützt, alle sozialen und sittlichen Verhältnisse des Imperium Romanum. Da der Autor auf primäre Quellen zurückgreift, erhält der...
London: Batsford, 1985. — 196 p. As perceived by the average Roman citizen, the early rites and behavior of Christians laid them open to charges of cannibalism, immorality, and the practice of magic and conspiring and fomenting rebellion against the state. The early church fathers rejected these accusations and portrayed pagans as victims of misinformation or perpetrators of...
Brill Academic, 2012. — 211 p. — (Impact of Empire 16). 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...
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, 2024. — xiv, 342 p. — (Impact of Empire 50). This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were...
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...
Oxbow Books, 2012. — 384 p. This volume presents a collection of more than 30 papers in honor of one of Europe's leading scholars on Roman pottery, Brenda Dickinson. Divided into thematic sections, papers are mostly concerned with her principal area of study, samian, but also touch on Brenda's other interests, with investigations into, for instance, the likely species of...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. – 546 p. ISBN 0-19-925237-8 978-0-19-925237-4 The Roman Government of Britain is a completely rewritten version of Professor Birley's Fasti of Roman Britain (1981), with biographical entries for all higher officials from AD 43 to 409. Several new governors, legionary legates, tribunes, procurators, and fleet prefects are included, and...
J.C. Gieben, 2001. — 282 p. — (Impact of Empire 1). The title of this volume is 'Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire'. The papers contained in this volume focus on all three of these themes, within the context of the impact of the Roman empire upon the regions it dominated. The papers contained in the first part of the volume concentrate...
J.C. Gieben, 2003. — 582 p. — (Impact of Empire 3). From the days of the emperor Augustus (27 B.C. - C.E. 14) the emperor and his court had a quintessential position within the Roman Empire. It is therefore clear that when the Impact of the Roman Empire is analysed, the impact of the emperor and those surrounding him is a central issue. The study of the representation and...
J.C. Gieben, 2002. — 288 p. — (Impact of Empire 2). Did a Roman imperial economy exist under the Late Republic, the Roman Principate and the Later Roman Empire? And if so, what type of economy was it? Another equally important question is: did the Roman Empire, by specific actions, the creation of infrastructures, or its very existence, trigger a transformation of economic life...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 455 p. Between the Roman annexation of Egypt and the Arab period, the Nile Delta went from consisting of seven branches to two, namely the current Rosetta and Damietta branches. For historians, this may look like a slow process, but on a geomorphological scale, it is a rather fast one. How did it happen? How did human action contribute to the...
Brill, 2021. — 635 p. — (Impact of Empire 39). Dialogangebote. Die Anrede des Kaisers jenseits der offiziellen Titulatur bietet eine Analyse 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...
London: Future Publishing, 2019. — 132 p. — (Part of the All about History: Special Issue). The fighting had stopped. Years of civil war, death and betrayal had ended, and one man emerged victorious from the fray. The adopted son of the once-great Julius Caesar was bestowed the title of Augustus by the Senate, and he ushered in a new era of rule: the Roman Empire. In All About...
Harvard University Press, 1983. — 224 p. The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, northwest Saudi Arabia, and the Negev. Mr. Bowersock's book is the first authoritative history of the region from the fourth century B.C. to the age of Constantine. The book opens with the arrival of...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 172 p. This ground-breaking book is the first to show how the institution of slavery, one of the most characteristic and enduring features of Roman imperial society, was maintained over time and how, at the practical level, the lives of slaves in the Roman world were directly controlled by their masters. The author demonstrates, first, how the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 397 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 177). Panthée presents a collective reflection relating to the changes that affected the Graeco-Roman Empire and over the long term altered its religious landscapes. Fifty years after the foundation of the series EPRO, the volume aims to avoid the division between the supposedly "Roman" or...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 360 p. - The first volume to provide a sustained and comprehensive treatment of women and the Roman army - Employs archaeological and textual evidence and incorporates work by a range of scholars to provide a variety of perspectives - Significantly advances discussion of women and the Roman army by examining social roles rather than simply...
Routledge, 1996. — 368 p. The Roman Remains of Southern France is the only specialist guidebook to this region available. It is the result of the most up-to-date research. Comprehensive in coverage, it provides depth and context while evoking the distinctive atmosphere of the place. The book is easy to use, with a large number of maps, site plans and photographs and it will...
Oxford Clarendon Press, 2001. — 551 p. The Roman empire, unlike the British, evoked no national resistance except from the Jews. This collection of essays by eminent historian professor P.A. Brunt critically examines various aspects of Roman history, from Roman aspirations to world dominion to Rome's success in winning the loyalty and acquiescence of its subjects. Two...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — xiv + 349 p. What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields through three avenues. First, it argues that the literatures...
Oxford University Press, 2023. What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields through three avenues. First, it argues that the literatures produced by elite...
Chelsea House Publications, 2009. - 159 pages. - (Great Empires of the Past).
The influence of the Roman Empire has been widespread and profound, perhaps more so than that of any other empire or civilization. Rome laid the foundation for many of the institutions and ideas in the modern Western world, including the common political and legal systems. Roman ruins can still be...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 481 p. — (Cincinnati Classical Studies. New Series 9). The Neokoroi, or 'temple-wardens,' were Hellenized cities of the eastern Roman empire who received that title for possessing their provinces' temples to the living emperor. This work collects and analyzes all the evidence for the neokoroi, including their coins and inscriptions,...
Brill, 2019. — 121 p. — (Brill Research Perspectives in Ancient History). 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.
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. — 258 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 237). Studien zur Rolle der Kaiserinnen der Spätantike konzentrierten sich lange auf einige wenige Einzelfiguren, die aufgrund eines außergewöhnlichen Lebenslaufs oder der Quellenlage besonderes Interesse auf sich zogen wie etwa Galla Placidia. Die spätere Forschung versuchte, die spezifische Rolle der Kaiserinnen...
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...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. — 613 S. — (Historia – Einzelschriften 262). La praefectura fabrum era una posizione istituzionale affidata su base fiduciaria dai magistrati cum imperio, figure apicali della politica romana. Indipendentemente dalle mansioni dei prefetti, definite dai loro deleganti, l'incarico dimostrava l'esistenza di vincoli di lealtà personale e politica fra...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2019. — 388 p. — (Impact of Empire 32). 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...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2019. — 388 p. — (Impact of Empire 32). 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...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1968. — IV+74 p. L' Egitto, come a tutti è ben noto, divenne "provincia romana con la conquista di Alessandria il .primo agosto dell' anno 30 av. Cr. e cotesto anno, ultimo del regno di Cleopatra, fu il primo della nuova dinastia che succedeva a quella dei Lagidi (9. Augusto, il nuovo re, mantenne intatto nelle sue linee fondamentali, 1' ordinamento...
BAR Publishing, 2010. — 310 p. This book has attempted to collect evidence of the lively trade in the Atlantic from the 1st century BC up to 1st century CE, when the Romans decided to conquer the territories of the Atlantic littoral. The papers here cover the commercial phenomena detected from the Strait of Gibraltar up to the Galician coasts of the NW Iberian Peninsula, which...
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 landscapes,...
Abingdon Press, 2006. — 160 p. An indispensable introduction to Roman society, culture, law, politics, religion, and daily life as they relate to the study of the New Testament.The Roman Empire formed the central context in which the New Testament was written. Anyone who wishes to understand the New Testament texts must become familiar with the political, economic, societal,...
Edipuglia, 2000. — 380 p. An in-depth study of the distinctive characteristics of Roman administration and bureaucracy built around its rulers. Based largely on literary and epigraphic evidence, chapters focus on imperial finance, expenditure, tribute and taxes and their relationship to other parts of the economy and to other parts of the Empire. Italian text.
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,...
HarperCollins, 2025. — 320 p. From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire.”The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us. To tell the reasons, the things and the stories, thanks to...
HarperCollins, 2025. — 320 p. From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire.”The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us. To tell the reasons, the things and the stories, thanks to...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2018. — 54 p. The Gallic Wars, the series of campaigns waged by Caesar on behalf of the Roman Senate between 58-50 BCE, were among the defining conflicts of the Roman era. Not only was the expansion of the Republic’s domains unprecedented (especially when considering it was undertaken under the auspices of a single general), it had a...
Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2003. — 456 p. François Baratte , Lumière et vie: une plaque de ceinture byzantine cruciforme à Korbous (Tunisie) Bruno Bleckmann , Gallus, César de l’Orient? Hartwin Brandt , Die Rede περί βασιλείας des Synesios von Kyrene - Ein ungewöhnlicher Fürstenspiegel Jean-Michel Carrié , Nihil Habens praeter quod ipso die vestiebatur. Comment définir le...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 128 p. As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98–117), Hadrian (117–138), Antoninus Pius (138–161) and Marcus Aurelius (161–180) were largely civilized and civilizing. The bad, on the other hand, were sometimes nothing less than monsters, exhibiting varying degrees of corruption, cruelty, depravity...
Amsterdam University Press, 2019. — 257 p. This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix. These four medical writers, whose translation into Latin of precious Greek texts has been hailed as ‘the...
Dorset Press, 1985. — 216 p. For centuries Britain’s Roman past has been a source of continuing fascination for ordinary people as well as for historians, antiquarians, and archaeologists. In modern times knowledge of and interest in Roman Britain have increased enormously; new discoveries of sites and objects are constantly being made, which adds to the excitement of a subject...
Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2000. — 229 p. F. E. Consolino , Premessa M. Labate , Poesia per i grandi, poesia per la comunità: il compromesso augusteo A. Fraschetti , Come elogiare ‘trasversalmente’ il principe C. Schneider , Littérature et propagande au IVe siècle de notte ère dans le recueil des grandes déclamations pseudo-quintiliennes: l’exemple du miles marianus...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. — 192 p. — (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 52). This book analyses the procedures, ideas and realities that allowed the people from the Greek East to become a part of the Roman Empire, while both preserving and redeveloping their cultural identity. The volume assesses this complex process both in the traditional Greek cities of the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 374 p. In der literarischen Diskussion nach ihrem Tod erscheinen Nero und Domitian als größenwahnsinnige Tyrannen, in der Panegyrik zu ihren Lebzeiten werden sie überschwänglich gepriesen. Angesichts dieser Diskrepanz hat man in den Übersteigerungen des Herrscherlobs versteckte Kritik am Kaiser vermutet. Der Band betrachtet das disparate Bild mit...
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, 2022. — 284 p. — (Impact of Empire 43). For more than fifty years the standard debates about Roman Imperialism were written more or less entirely in terms of male agency, male competition, and male participation. Not only have women been marginalized in these narratives as just so much collateral damage but there has been little engagement with gender history more...
Brill, 2022. — 284 p. — (Impact of Empire 43). For more than fifty years the standard debates about Roman Imperialism were written more or less entirely in terms of male agency, male competition, and male participation. Not only have women been marginalized in these narratives as just so much collateral damage but there has been little engagement with gender history more...
Capstone Press, 2011. — 43 p. The Bloody, Rotten Roman Empire - The Disgusting Details about Life in Ancient Rome by James A. Corrick presents a picture of Ancient Rome that very few authors have dared to venture into. From garbage-filled streets and spoiled food to bloody gladiator fights and deadly punishments, daily life in Rome was really rotten. Get ready to explore the...
Capstone Press, 2011. — 43 p. The Bloody, Rotten Roman Empire - The Disgusting Details about Life in Ancient Rome by James A. Corrick presents a picture of Ancient Rome that very few authors have dared to venture into. From garbage-filled streets and spoiled food to bloody gladiator fights and deadly punishments, daily life in Rome was really rotten. Get ready to explore the...
Capstone Press, 2011. — 43 p. The Bloody, Rotten Roman Empire - The Disgusting Details about Life in Ancient Rome by James A. Corrick presents a picture of Ancient Rome that very few authors have dared to venture into. From garbage-filled streets and spoiled food to bloody gladiator fights and deadly punishments, daily life in Rome was really rotten. Get ready to explore the...
Capstone Press, 2011. — 43 p. The Bloody, Rotten Roman Empire - The Disgusting Details about Life in Ancient Rome by James A. Corrick presents a picture of Ancient Rome that very few authors have dared to venture into. From garbage-filled streets and spoiled food to bloody gladiator fights and deadly punishments, daily life in Rome was really rotten. Get ready to explore the...
Brill, 2017. — 221 p. — (Impact of Empire 25). 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...
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 bureaucracy...
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 bureaucracy...
New York: Arno Press, 1975. — xi + 197 p. Introduction The Republican Background The Senatorial Committee Amici principis From Augustus to Trajan Hadrian From Antoninus Pius to Severus Alexander The Third Century and Diocletian Organization The Influence of Imperial Councils Appendix I: Participation of Augustus and Tiberius in Senatorial Debates Appendix II: The ‘Acts of the...
München: Oldenbourg, 1989. — 307 S. Vorwort Darstellung Augustus: Der Monarch bemächtigt sich der Republik Die Macht der Tradition - Die Grundlagen der augusteischen Restaurationspolitik - Das Bündnis mit der Republik Die Monarchie: Ihre Ausgestaltung und ihre Funktion Die rechtlichen und politischen Formen der Herrschaft - Die sozialen Grundlagen - Die sakrale Weihe - Die...
Routledge, 2002. — 343 p. Empire of Pleasures presents an evocative survey of the sensory culture of the Roman Empire, showing how the Romans themselves depicted their food, wine and entertainments in literature and in art. This fascinating journey envelops the reader in a world devoted to the titillation and fulfilment of the senses, allowing them to recapture the Empire as it...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2012. — 608 p. The complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force, by an award-winning historian. In this landmark publication, Stephen Dando-Collins does what no other author has ever attempted to do: provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion. Based on thirty years of meticulous research, he covers...
Peeters Publishers, 1997. — 408 p. The Flavian Dynasty is perhaps best known for its vast construction program on the city of Rome, intended to restore the capital from the damage it had suffered during the Great Fire of 64, and the civil war of 69. Vespasian added the temple of Peace and the temple to the deified Claudius. In 75, a colossal statue of Apollo, begun under Nero...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 432 p. The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity. By analysing these two periods, which are usually treated separately in studies of the Roman court, it considers continuities, changes, and connections in the six...
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.
Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Lille, June 23–25, 2011). — Brill, 2013. — 302 p. — (Impact of Empire 17). 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...
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C. - A.D. 476), Leiden, June 25-28, 2003). — Brill, 2004. — 466 p. — (Impact of Empire 4). List of Abbreviations Instruments of imperial rule W. Eck, Lateinisch, Griechisch, Germanisch... ? Wie sprach Rom mit seinen Untertanen? R. Talbert, Rome's provinces as framework for...
BAR Publishing, 2011. — 179 p. In 2006 and 2007, the editors of this volume organized sessions at the annual meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists (Cracow, Poland and Zadar, Croatia) entitled "The Roman Empire and Beyond" in response to the increasing amount of archaeological work being conducted in Central and Eastern Europe, areas where the Roman Empire met...
AC Black, 2013. — 144 p. Leisured Resistance examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as a political and literary tool. While for some the villas were retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, others adapted this same tradition of cultured otium (or deliberate retirement from...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 144 p. Leisured Resistance examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as a political and literary tool. While for some the villas were retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, others adapted this same tradition of cultured otium (or deliberate...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 144 p. Leisured Resistance examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as a political and literary tool. While for some the villas were retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, others adapted this same tradition of cultured otium (or deliberate...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021. — 222 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 63). — ISBN-13 978-1789694024. 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...
Routledge, 2015. — 288 p. Imperial policy on the western frontier of the Roman Empire was the means by which the government controlled the frontier residents. This book takes a topical approach to this study of the frontier: subjects covered include the army, farming, commerce, manufacturing, religion and Romanization.
Campus Verlag, 2024. — 250 p. Despite Roman claims to have brought peace, unrest was widespread in the Roman empire. Revolts, protests and piracy were common occurrences. How did contemporaries relate to and make sense of such phenomena? This volume gathers eleven contributions by specialists in the various literatures and modes of thinking that flourished in the empire between...
Campus Verlag, 2024. — 250 p. Despite Roman claims to have brought peace, unrest was widespread in the Roman empire. Revolts, protests and piracy were common occurrences. How did contemporaries relate to and make sense of such phenomena? This volume gathers eleven contributions by specialists in the various literatures and modes of thinking that flourished in the empire between...
Campus Verlag, 2024. — 250 p. Despite Roman claims to have brought peace, unrest was widespread in the Roman empire. Revolts, protests and piracy were common occurrences. How did contemporaries relate to and make sense of such phenomena? This volume gathers eleven contributions by specialists in the various literatures and modes of thinking that flourished in the empire between...
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...
Köln: Rheinland-Verlag, 1985. — 295 p. — (Epigraphische Studien 14). Dieses Buch ist wesentlich durch äußere Umstände angeregt worden. Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Direktor am Römisch-Germanischen Museum in Köln, lud den Verfasser ein, im März 1984 aus Anlaß des 35-jährigen Bestehens der Archäologischen Gesellschaft in Köln sowie der zehnjährigen Wiederkehr der Eröffnung des Museums...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 356 p. Wer im römischen Reich einen Verein gründen wollte, hatte auf den ersten Blick keinen leichten Stand. Wiederholt erließen Senat und Kaiser Gesetze, die alle Vereine pauschal verboten; mit Beginn des Prinzipats entstand zudem ein System, das die offizielle Genehmigung von Vereinen an ihre Nützlichkeit für das Gemeinwohl band. Und doch entstanden auf...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. — 364 p. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES) 57). Die Frage der Integration verschiedener ethnischer Gruppen in ein wachsendes Europa unter Bewahrung lokaler Interessen ist eine der zentralen Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Umso wichtiger ist es, historische Vergleichsmomente zu analysieren, um zu...
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 2017. — 290 p. — (Palingenesia 108). Die Epoche zwischen Mark Aurel und Konstantin gilt gemeinhin als eine Zeit krisenhaften Umbruchs und tiefgreifender Veränderungen in politischer, sozio-ökonomischer und religiöser Hinsicht. Auch in Literatur, Philosophie und Kunst richtet sich der Blick oft auf Abbrüche und Neuanfänge. Die Beiträge dieses...
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...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. — 184 p. Early one morning in 80 CE, the Colosseum roared to life with the deafening cheers of tens of thousands of spectators as the emperor, Titus, inaugurated the new amphitheater with one hundred days of bloody spectacles. These games were much anticipated, for the new amphitheater had been under construction for a decade. Home to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 192 p. In the mid-3rd century AD Roman Britain's regional fleet, the Classis Britannica, disappeared. It was never to return. Soon the North Sea and English Channel were over-run by Germanic pirates preying upon the east and south coast of Britain, and the continental coast up to the Rhine Delta. The western augustus (senior emperor) Maximian...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 192 p. In the mid-3rd century AD Roman Britain's regional fleet, the Classis Britannica, disappeared. It was never to return. Soon the North Sea and English Channel were over-run by Germanic pirates preying upon the east and south coast of Britain, and the continental coast up to the Rhine Delta. The western augustus (senior emperor) Maximian...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 240 p. The Roman Conquests series seeks to explain when and how the Romans were able to conquer a vast empire stretching from the foothills of the Scottish Highlands to the Sahara Desert, from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. How did their armies adapt to and overcome the challenges of widely varied enemies and terrain? In this volume, Dr Simon...
The History Press, 2016. — 224 p. The Roman war machine comprised land and naval forces. Although the former has been studied extensively, less has been written and understood about the naval forces of the Roman empire and, in particular, the regional navies which actively participated in most military operations and policed the seas and rivers of the Empire. Until the...
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1996. — ix, 150 p. : ill., maps. With its succinct analysis of the overriding issues and detailed case-studies based on the latest archaeological research, this social and economic study of Roman Imperial frontiers is essential reading. Too often the frontier has been represented as a simple linear boundary. The reality, argues Dr. Elton, was rather a...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 304 p. Defined by borders both physical and conceptual, the Roman city stood apart as a concentration of life and activity that was legally, economically, and ritually divided from its rural surroundings. Death was a key area of control, and tombs were relegated outside city walls from the Republican period through Late Antiquity. Given this...
University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 264 p. In the second century A.D., Corinth was the largest city in Roman Greece. A center of learning, culture, and commerce, it served as the capital of the senatorial province of Achaea and was the focus of apostle Paul's missionary activity. Donald Engels's important revisionist study of this ancient urban area is at once a detailed...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 646 p. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome offers thirty-one original essays by leading historians, classicists and archaeologist on the largest metropolis of the Roman Empire. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are famous features of the Roman capital, Rome is addressed in this volume primarily as a city in which many...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 380 p. Paul Erdkamp illustrates how entitlement to food in Roman society was dependent on relations with the emperor, his representatives and the landowning aristocracy, and local rulers controlling the towns and hinterlands. He assesses the response of the Roman authorities to weaknesses in the grain market and looks at the implications of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 208 p. Debates and documents on Ancient History is a series of a short books on central topic in Greek and Roman history. The works in the series are written by expert academics and provide up-to-day and accessible accounts of the historical issues and problems raised by each topic. They also contain the important evidence on which the...
Cambridge – New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. – 306 p. – (Greek Culture in the Roman World). ISBN: 978-1-107-02638-4 This book examines the role of social networks in the formation of identity among sophists, philosophers, and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Membership in each category was established and evaluated socially as well as discursively. From clashes...
Routledge, 2008. — 171 p. Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees, and for its surrounding people the Convenae. The book opens with the creation of the Convenae by Pompey the Great in the first century B.C. and runs down to the great Frankish siege in...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 219 p. — (BAR International Series 2686). This volume is the result of five years of research about the juridical Latinization policy developed by Rome in the West, focusing on the integration –under the protection of the Latinity– of a set of Hispanian communities, promoted –in the Republican era– to colonial status and –during the Roman Empire– to the...
Head of Zeus, 2014. — 343 p. SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus. A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world. Do you know to what use the Romans put the excrement of the kingfisher? Or why a dinner party invitation from the emperor Domitian was such a terrifying prospect? Or why Roman women smelt so odd? The answers to these...
Random House, 2012. — 512 р. — ISBN: 978-1400066636. From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the...
The History Press, 2013. — 224 p. The artists of ancient Rome portrayed the barbarian enemies of the Empire in sculpture, reliefs, metalwork and jewellery. This study of these images tells the reader much about the barbarians, about Roman art and about the Romans' view of themselves. Ferris examines the literary and historical background to these works, exposing the deep-seated...
Silvana Editoriale, 2020. — 370 p. — (CENIM 24). Dans cet ouvrage, la mort fait l’objet d’une étude englobant de multiples aspects. Sont abordés les données démographiques, les attitudes et gestes quotidiens face à la mort, les croyances relatives à l’au-delà, mais aussi les pratiques administratives et juridiques suscitées par un décès. L’étude est menée à partir de...
Ashgate Publishing, 2017. — 332 p. The studies included in this volume supplement the work already published by the author on the imperial cult in the Roman West, focussing on the monuments of two cities in Roman Spain, Augusta Emerita (now Meridda) and Tarraco (now Tarragona). The introduction gives the general background and context of the four following studies and argues in...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — xiv + 277 p. The inspiration for this volume comes from the work of its dedicatee, Brent D. Shaw, who is one of the most original and wide-ranging historians of the ancient world of the last half-century and continues to open up exciting new fields for exploration. Each of the distinguished contributors has produced a cutting-edge exploration...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 210 p. — (Geographica Historica 34). The Peutinger map and the Antonine itinerary represent two of the most important documents on travelling in the Roman world. With a focus on the three provinces Pannonia, Dacia and Moesia, Florin-Gheorghe Fodorean analyzes and compares the distances registered in these documents of ancient geography. By...
De Gruyter, 1996. — 308 p. — (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 79). The present study of virtues and terms of praise in Italian honorary inscriptions and tabulae patronatus of the early Empire offers a unique and valuable body of evidence for the understanding of Roman virtues. By analyzing the Roman vocabulary for virtue outside the more traditional contexts of literature, imperial...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 273 p. The last several decades have seen a dramatic increase in interest in the Roman period on the island of Crete. Ongoing and some long-standing excavations and investigations of Roman sites and buildings, intensive archaeological survey of Roman areas, and intensive research on artifacts, history, and inscriptions of the island now provide abundant...
Batoche Books, 2003. — 194 p. The People of Rome and Latium Rome Dominates Latium Rome Creates a Confederation Rome Dominates Central Italy The Foreign Policy of the Young Democracy and its Consequences Rome as an Imperial Democracy The Federation Put to the Test Sentimental Politics The Consequences of Sentimental Politics Reaction Toward Practical Politics Protectorate or...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 239 S. — (Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 30). Religion spielte im Imperium Romanum eine wichtige Rolle für die Identitätsbildung sozialer Eliten und war in hohem Maße statusrelevant. Dieser Band zeigt die Bedeutung der Religion im Kontext der kaiserzeitlichen Bildungskultur und ihrer Institutionen. Dabei nehmen die Autoren zum einen...
WBG Academic, 2017. — 289 p. Helmut Freis Sammlung historischer Inschriften ist für die Hand der Geschichtsstudierenden bestimmt, die sich durch mangelnde Kenntnisse der alten Sprachen und die Eigenart der Inschriften nicht an die historische Auswertung herantrauen. Daher werden die Inschriften nur in deutscher Übersetzung geboten; bei umstrittenen Stellen und Ergänzungen wird...
BAR Publishing, 1989. — 362 p. — (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 11, BAR International Series 553.1). Soundings at Seh Qubba, a Roman frontier station on the Tigris in Iraq - W. Ball The Nabataean army - J. Bowsher Coping with the Caucasus: Roman responses to local conditions in Colchis - D. Braund Juvenal and the East: satire as an historical source -...
BAR Publishing, 1989. — 328 p. — (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 11, BAR International Series 553.1). Soundings at Seh Qubba, a Roman frontier station on the Tigris in Iraq - W. Ball The Nabataean army - J. Bowsher Coping with the Caucasus: Roman responses to local conditions in Colchis - D. Braund Juvenal and the East: satire as an historical source -...
BAR Publishing, 1989. — 296 p. — (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 11, BAR International Series 553.2). High and low level routes across the Taurus and Antitaurus - T. Mitford The events of 351‐352 in Palestine ‐ the last revolt against Rome? - M. Mor The fourth century garrison of Arabia: strategic implications for the south‐eastern frontier - S.T. Parker...
BAR Publishing, 1989. — 296 p. — (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 11, BAR International Series 553.2). High and low level routes across the Taurus and Antitaurus - T. Mitford The events of 351‐352 in Palestine ‐ the last revolt against Rome? - M. Mor The fourth century garrison of Arabia: strategic implications for the south‐eastern frontier - S.T. Parker...
British İnstitute of Ankara, 2012. List of Numbered Milestones. Conspectus of Designated Roads and Numbered Milestones (with Maps 5.1.1-2). Epigraphic Conventions. Texts. In Asiam. In Pontum et Bithyniam. Per Cappadociam in Pontum et Bithyniam. In Cappadociam. Galatia. De Lycia et Pamphylia in Galatiam. In Ciliciam, Isauriam et Lycaoniam. Per Pontum et Bithyniam, Galatiam,...
Wipf and Stock, 1952. — 386 p. This work is a development of a thesis written immediately before the Second World War, on ‘The Social and Economic Background of Early Christianity in North Africa down to C.E. 430, with special reference to the Donatist Controversy’. The author had studied St. Augustine as his special subject in the Modern History School at Oxford, and had been...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 421 p. What and how do people remember? Who controls the process of what we call cultural or social memory? What is forgotten and why? People's memories are not the same as history written in retrospect; they are malleable and an ongoing process of construction and reconstruction. Ancient Rome provided much of the cultural framework for early...
Routledge, 2019. — 218 p. This book demonstrates and analyzes patterns in the response of the Imperial Roman state to local resistance, focusing on decisions made within military and administrative organizations during the Principate. Through a thorough investigation of the official Roman approach towards local revolt, author Gil Gambash answers significant questions that,...
Brill, 2022. — 442 p. — (Impact of Empire 42). "This anthology provides valuable new insights into discussions about the virtues, qualities, and position of the emperor in the Roman world (especially with regard to the perception of imperial dominion in the eastern provinces) by systematically focusing on documentary sources, i.e. inscriptions in particular. In addition, the...
Crítica, 1991. — 262 p. Historia no convencional sobre el imperio Romano en su momento de MAXIMA expansion que trata aspectos tales como la unidad domestica y la familia, la religion, las clases sociales, la ideologia de la clase dominante, las relaciones personales o los efectos de la dominacion romana en las provincias.
Brill, 2020. — xxiv + 241 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 437; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 437). 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,...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 378 p. This volume contains a series of articles that examine the Roman family in Italy and the empire using a wide range of evidence and considering a number of critical issues. Its focus on regional differences in family structure, forms of marriage, and kinship patterns make it the first publication to include targeted study of the family in the...
Mondadori Education, 2017. — 608 p. Il volume costituisce la versione non solo maggiorata, ma in molte parti ripensata e riorganizzata, del fortunato manuale di Storia romana giunto ormai alla sua Quarta Edizione. Il libro ripercorre la storia romana dalle prime attestazioni dei più antichi popoli italici alla caduta dell’Impero romano d’Occidente, senza rinunciare a seguire le...
Bison Books, 1985. — 264 p. For nearly two centuries, Edward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” has been considered the paradigm of classical history. This monumental work, originally published in six volumes over a period of twelve years from 1776 to 1788, was greeted with general acclaim from the time the first volume came off the press....
Yale University Press, 2016. — 490 p. Adrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empire—including high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keegan— and here he offers a new perspective on the Empire by focusing on its greatest generals, including Scipio Africanus, Marius, Pompey, Caesar, and Titus. Each chapter...
Phoenix, 2004. — 416 p. Adrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empire—including high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keegan— and here he offers a new perspective on the Empire by focusing on its greatest generals, including Scipio Africanus, Marius, Pompey, Caesar, and Titus. Each chapter paints a...
DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1987. — 364 p. The period between the accession of Marcus Aurelius in CE 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...
Duckworth, 1985. — 240 p. Studies the inter-relation of literature and everyday human life in the Augustan poets. The works of Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid are characterized by a brilliant polish and a dazzling repertoire of devices for stylizing events and emotion; yet they remain convincing as a direct response to experience. Theories which deny that directness are...
Princeton University Press, 1998. — 244 p. This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the...
Schnell & Steiner, 2020. — 384 s. Mauern sind stumm. Antworten suchen die Historiker Nikolas Hächler und Beat Näf sowie der Archäologe Peter-Andrew Schwarz deshalb in Textzeugnissen aus dem Altertum. Was überliefern sie z.B. über die Aufgaben und die Verwendung dieser Anlagen? Lassen sich die Absichten benennen, welche zu ihrem Bau geführt haben? Wozu dienten die...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. — 356 p. — (Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium 25). Tränen stellen zweifelsohne eine besonders intensive menschliche Ausdrucksform dar. Aufgrund ihres expressiven Charakters fungieren sie in der Regel als Geste, die – unwillkürlich oder willkürlich ausgeführt – spezifische Emotionen an ein Gegenüber vermittelt. Judith Hagen setzt sich anhand...
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1979. — 236 p. — (Hypomnemata 58). Die Beschäftigung mit den römischen Reichsbeamten und Offizieren unter dem Gesichtspunkt ihrer geographischen Herkunft wurde bereits von der auf Th. Mommsen folgenden Generation aufgenommen, als sich dank des inzwischen gut gesammelten inschriftlichen Materials die prosopographische Forschung auf eine ausreichende...
The History Press, 2013. — 288 p. The Parisi were a tribe located somewhere within the present day East Riding of Yorkshire, known from a brief reference by Ptolemy. They were originally immigrants from Gaul and share their name with the tribe that occupied modern day France. Fairly obvious from their name, they gave the French capital its name. The investigation of the Parisi...
Princeton University Press, 1984. — xx + 422 p. Judith Hallett illuminates a paradox of elite Roman society of the classical period: its members extolled female domesticity and imposed numerous formal constraints on women's public activity, but many women in Rome's leading families wielded substantial political and social influence.
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 824 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). This handbook provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Greek cities in the Roman Empire. The poleis are studied here both as urban forms, with a specific organization of space and specific public buildings, and as socio-political entities, with specific institutions and social hierarchies. The contributions...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 325 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World). How did the cities of Ionia construct and express a distinct sense of Ionian identity under Roman rule? With the creation of the Roman province of Asia and the ever-growing incorporation of the Greeks into the Roman Empire, issues of identity gained new relevance and urgency for the Greek...
Warszawa : Instytut Wydawniczy Pax, 1990. — 338 s. Życie codzienne pierwszych chrześcijan - Alberta G. Hammana to książka będąca kompilacją dzieł autorów z II wieku naszej ery. Już samo to czyni ją ciekawą ,pasjonująca lekturą. Autor korzysta między innymi z Roczników - Tacyta, Listów - Pliniusza Młodszego, Pliniusza Starszego, z Historii Kościelnej-Euzebiusza z Cezarei, pism...
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.
Walter de Gruyter, 2013. — 334 p. — (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 40). Im August 2010 jährte sich zum 1600. Mal die Plünderung Roms durch den Gothen Alarich. Dieses Ereignis wurde von Paganen und Christen gleichermassen zu einem Weltereignis stilisiert und fand ein vielfältiges Echo in zeitgenössischer und späterer Literatur. Dieser Sammelband analysiert die...
Brill, 1965. — 157 p. What are the reasons behind the contamination of oriental cults in Roman Britain? What circumstances led to this spiritual upheaval, the results of which contributed to the triumph of Christianity? This problem, which is fundamental to the history of religions and for the identification of the origins of Western civilization, is at the centre of this...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 370 p. The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most enduring in world history. In his new book, distinguished historian W. V. Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual waning of Roman imperial power, together with the Roman community's internal power structures (political power, social...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — xxi + 357 p. The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most enduring in world history. In his new book, distinguished historian William V. Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual waning of Roman imperial power, together with the Roman community's internal power structures (political...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 384 p. Imperial Rome has a name for wealth and luxury, but was the economy of the Roman Empire as a whole a success, by the standards of pre-modern economies? In this volume W. V. Harris brings together eleven previously published papers on this much-argued subject, with additional comments to bring them up to date. A new study of poverty and...
University of Michigan Press, 2024. — 368 p. Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome presents the Danube frontier of the Roman empire as the central stage for many of the most important political and military events of Roman history, from Trajan’s invasion of Dacia and the Marcomannic Wars, to the humbling of the Roman state power at the hands of the Goths and Huns. Hart delves...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. — 714 S. — (Geographica historica 46). Die Arbeit verfolgt die politische, soziale, ökonomische und kulturelle Geschichte der Markomannen. In der unruhigen, von Gefolgschaften durchzogenen Germania magna der Kaiserzeit stellte der suebische Stamm an der Mitteldonau für das Imperium außergewöhnlich stabile und stark romanisierte foederati dar. Trotz...
Hackett Publishing, 2016. — 296 p. "One really must admire Harvey’s achievement in this sourcebook. With just 350 passages (more than half of them consisting of Latin inscriptions, from all over Rome’s empire), Harvey manages to give his readers a real sense of Roman private values and behaviors. His translations of the original texts are superb - both accurate and elegant. And he...
Routledge, 2025. — 716 p. This reference work provides detailed lists of the names and titles of Roman emperors from Augustus to Severus Alexander, as well as a chronology of significant historical events and a brief overview of imperial portraiture for each of these emperors. The names, titles, and portraits of the emperor appeared in a wide variety of public contexts, making...
Routledge, 2025. — 716 p. This reference work provides detailed lists of the names and titles of Roman emperors from Augustus to Severus Alexander, as well as a chronology of significant historical events and a brief overview of imperial portraiture for each of these emperors. The names, titles, and portraits of the emperor appeared in a wide variety of public contexts, making...
Translated by J. Szczepański. — Poznań: Dom Wydawniczy Rebis, 2010. — 768 s. Kiedy w dalekim palestyńskim miasteczku rodził się Chrystus, Europa była podzielona na dwa krańcowo różne światy. Krąg śródziemnomorskich wybrzeży, zjednoczony pod rzymskim panowaniem, był światem filozofii, ponadczasowej literatury, zawodowej armii, olśniewającej architektury i sprawnej kanalizacji....
Translated by J. Szczepański. — Poznań: Dom Wydawniczy Rebis, 2007. — 640 s. Dlaczego imperium rzymskie upadło? Od czasów Zmierzchu Cesarstwa Rzymskiego Edwarda Gibbona odpowiedzi na to pytanie pojawiało się wiele. W 1984 pewien niemiecki uczony obliczył, że wskazano ponad dwieście przyczyn: od impotencji spowodowanej przez systematyczne zatruwanie ołowiem do rabunkowej...
Brill Academic Pub, 2011. — 391 p. — (Impact of Empire 13).
This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network ‘Impact of Empire’, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire and brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and specialists on Roman law from some thirty European, North American and Australian...
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Heidelberg, July 5-7, 2007). — Brill, 2009. — 393 p. — (Impact of Empire 9). 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,...
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Gent, June 21-24, 2017). — Brill, 2019. — 246 p. — (Impact of Empire 34). The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire discusses ways in which notions, practice and the ideology of justice impacted on the functioning of the Roman Empire. The papers assembled in this volume follow from the...
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Gent, June 21-24, 2017). — Brill, 2019. — 246 p. — (Impact of Empire 34). The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire discusses ways in which notions, practice and the ideology of justice impacted on the functioning of the Roman Empire. The papers assembled in this volume follow from the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 348 p. For centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed, what exactly he had to do, or how the succession was organised. Everyone knew, however, that the emperor held ultimate power over the empire. There were also...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 348 p. For centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed, what exactly he had to do, or how the succession was organised. Everyone knew, however, that the emperor held ultimate power over the empire. There were also...
Brill, 2017. — 537 p. — (Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy 8). 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,...
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...
Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2013. — 431 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplements. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 360). Roman Cities, as conventionally studied, seem to be dominated by men. Yet as the contributions to this volume—which deals with the Roman cities of Italy and the western provinces in the late Republic and early Empire—show, women occupied a wide range of civic...
Routledge, 1995. — 294 p. Apart from Christianity and the Oriental Cults, religion in Roman Britain is often discussed as though it remained basically Celtic in belief and practice, under a thin veneer of Roman influence. Using a wide range of archaeological evidence, Dr Henig shows that the Roman element in religion was of much greater significance and that the natural Roman...
The University of Alberta Press, 1982. — 280 p. Gustav Hermansen provides a basis for constructive debate on the social and economic life of the Roman ancient city of Ostia. Ostia unveils ancient social history, architecture, city planning, and community life, and is complete with extensive floor plans, photographs, and line drawings.
Archaeopress, 2015. — 166 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 11). Como religión de Estado, el culto imperial fue uno de los agentes que intervinieron en el proceso de aculturación propiciado por el contacto entre Roma y las poblaciones bajo su dominio. Al ser indisociable de la comunidad donde se implanta, ésta condiciona su evolución como culto público. Este libro...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022. — 495 p. — (Geographica Historica 44). Gab es in der Antike ein aktives Handeln gegenüber Naturrisiken? Jasmin Hettinger widmet sich den Vorsorgepraktiken, die sich im Laufe der Zeit in unterschiedlichen Regionen des Römischen Reichs herausbildeten, um sich vor Flusshochwasser zu schützen. Dazu untersucht sie anhand von literarischen, epigraphischen,...
University of Michigan Press, 2012. — 246 p. The "glorious house" of the senatorial family of the Flavii Apiones is the best documented economic entity of the Roman Empire during the fifth through seventh centuries, that critical period of transition between the classical world and the Middle Ages. For decades, the rich but fragmentary manuscript evidence that this large...
Routledge, 2000. — 241 p. This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence. This distortion of the facts became accepted truth and its legacy is still felt in archaeology today. While tracing the development of these ideas, the author also gives the...
University of Michigan Press, 2008. — 352 p. It was not until the third century BCE that geopolitical realities beyond Italy forced Rome to recognize the importance of the sea to its own fate. Two centuries later, following the fall of Egypt in 30 BCE, Rome emerged as the dominant maritime power. Once in place, Rome's dominance of the sea became an important component of its...
Wiley-Blackwel, 2018. — 800 p. A Companion to the City of Rome provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its legendary foundations as a settlement on the banks of the Tiber up until circa 600 AD. Featuring original contributions from a wide range of scholars at the forefront of new developments in their...
Puttenham Press Ltd., 2022. — 308 p. It was the fall before the fall.The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the third century”. Long before the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, in the years between AD 235-275, barbarian invasions, civil war and plague devastated ancient Rome. Out of this ordeal, a revolutionary new order arose. Nick Holmes...
Brill, 2024. — xiv, 488 p. — (East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, vol. 90). At present, there is no scholarly consensus on the ecclesiastical organization in the Roman province of Scythia (4th-7th centuries). This volume proposes a new interpretation of some of the historical evidence concerning the evolution of the see of Tomi: a great metropolis,...
Cambridge University Press, 1978. — 292 p. The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book, Keith Hopkins, who is both classicist and sociologist, uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain new insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans...
Königstein/Ts.: Hain, 1984. — 135 S. — (Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 159). Die Theorie vom spätrömischen 'Zwangsstaat'. Das munus primipili in der kaiserzeitlichen Finanzverwaltung . Fragestellung. Die angebliche Steuererhebung der Primipile im 3. Jahrhundert. Die Besoldungstätigkeit der Primipile nach dem Zeugnis der Ecloga Basilicorum. Die kommunale Steuererhebung nach...
Brill, 2012. — 416 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 81). The Roman empire extended over three continents, and all its lands came to share a common culture, bequeathing a legacy vigorous even today. A Companion to Roman Imperialism , written by a distinguished body of scholars, explores the extraordinary phenomenon of Rome’s rise to empire to reveal the impact which this had on...
Bloomsbury Publishing / I.B.Tauris, 2019. — 256 p. Rome - Urbs Roma : city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face...
Bloomsbury Publishing / I.B.Tauris, 2019. — 256 p. Rome - Urbs Roma : city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 288 p. Much of Constantine I’s claim to lasting fame rests upon his sponsorship of Christianity, and many works have been published assessing whether his apparent conversion was a real religious experience or a cynical political maneuver. However his path to sole rule of the Roman Empire depended more upon the ruthless application of military...
Routledge, 2000. — 400 p. Unique in their broad-based coverage the twelve essays in this book provide a fresh look at some central aspects of Roman culture and society. Janet Huskinson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at The Open University, UK.
Routledge, 2000. — 400 p. Unique in their broad-based coverage the twelve essays in this book provide a fresh look at some central aspects of Roman culture and society. Janet Huskinson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at The Open University, UK.
University of Oulu Press, 1974. — 206 p. Social class in ancient Rome was hierarchical, with multiple and overlapping social hierarchies. An individual's relative position in one might be higher or lower than in another, which complicated the social composition of Rome. The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity, property, wealth, citizenship and freedom. The...
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...
Routledge, 2019. — 232 p. The establishment of large-scale water infrastructure is a defining aspect of the process of urbanisation. In places like Britain, the Roman period represents the first introduction of features that can be recognised and paralleled to our modern water networks. Writers have regularly cast these innovations as markers of a uniform Roman identity...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. — 534 p. — ISBN: 0-19-814952-2. For more than seven centuries most of the Near East was part of the Roman Empire. Yet no work exists which explores the means by which an ancient power originating in the western Mediterranean could control such a vast and distant region. What was the impact of the army presence on the population of the provinces?...
Brill, 1997. — 554 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 177). 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...
Routledge, 2020. — 399 p. — (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies). Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The volume critically explores the gender constructs and sexual behaviours in the provinces and frontiers in light of recent studies of Roman erotic experience and flux gender...
Routledge, 2021. — 240 p. This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its hinterland from the first century AD using modern supply chain modelling 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 modelling techniques. The subject matter delves into the wider supply of goods, such as wood and building products, to add further perspective to the breadth of the system managed by the...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 397 p. The papers collected in this volume provide invaluable insights into the results of different interactions between of Romans and Others. Articles dealing with cultural changes within and outside the borders of Roman Empire highlight the idea that those very changes had different results and outcomes depending on various social,...
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...
Routledge, 2015. — 422 p. — (Routledge Revivals). The legacy of Rome is still very much with us in Europe. It forms part of our cultural backdrop, and is enshrined in the European mind, whether through classical literature, education and jurisprudence, or spectacular ruins. In Rome and Its Empire , first published in 1989, Stephen Johnson examines our understanding of the...
Routledge, 2015. — 422 p. — (Routledge Revivals). The legacy of Rome is still very much with us in Europe. It forms part of our cultural backdrop, and is enshrined in the European mind, whether through classical literature, education and jurisprudence, or spectacular ruins. In Rome and Its Empire, first published in 1989, Stephen Johnson examines our understanding of the...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 432 p. Histories of ancient Rome have long emphasized the ways in which the empire assimilated the societies it conquered, bringing civilization to the supposed barbarians. Yet interpretations of this “Romanization” of Western Europe tend to erase local identities and traditions from the historical picture, leaving us with an incomplete...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 576 p. This book traces the diffusion of the Greek city as a political institution throughout the lands of the Roman Empire bordering the Eastern Mediterranean over a period extending from Alexander's conquest of the East to the sixth century. Arranged in order of annexation, the regions are dealt with individually. The study examines to what...
London; New York: Longman, 1994. — viii, 414 p. — ISBN10: 0582483093. This celebrated account of the decline of the ancient world describes the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the emergence of the new medieval European order. The Sources. Background: The Principate. Diocletian. Constantine. The House of Constantine. The House of Valentinian. The House of...
Barnes and Noble, 1968. — 243 p. The Imperium of Augustus. The censorial powers of Augustus. The elections under Augustus. 'I appeal unto Caesar. Imperial and senatorial jurisdiction in the early Principate. The aerarium and the fiscus. Procurators and prefects in the early Principate. The dediticii and the Constitutio Antoniniana. 'In eo solo dominivm popvli Romani est vel...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. — 622 S. — (Historia – Einzelschriften 175). Keine andere Provinz des Imperium Romanum kennen wir genauer als Ägypten, nirgends blieb reicheres Material über die Verwaltungstätigkeit eines römischen Statthalters erhalten als dort. Dennoch hat man den griechischen Papyri zumeist nur geringe Aussagekraft für die Provinzverwaltung im allgemeinen...
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...
Reckless Books, 2011. — 258 p. Originally published in a single-edition hardback in 2005, few books before have explored the exploits, achievements, and notorious antics of ancient Rome's imperial dynasties in such readable detail. This title sets out to describe in a highly readable narrative text the lives of every man (and a few women) who aspired to the purple, from...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 164 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from drizzle-soaked northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all...
Liverpool University Press, 2023. — 232 p. The Financial Markets of Roman Egypt analyses some 4,367 financial transactions, leases, sales and loans, recorded on papyri in Roman Egypt in the period AD 1 to 350. The analysis of this remarkable body of information, the ancient equivalent of modern-day 'Big Data', helps us understand how ordinary people thought about some of the...
Routledge, 2013. — 300 p. The Roman Near East has been a source of fascination and exasperation - an immense area, a rich archaeological heritage as well as documents in several local languages, a region with a great depth of urbanisation and development... yet relatively neglected by modern researchers and difficult to work on and in. Local archaeologists are often...
Routledge, 2013. — 300 p. The Roman Near East has been a source of fascination and exasperation - an immense area, a rich archaeological heritage as well as documents in several local languages, a region with a great depth of urbanisation and development... yet relatively neglected by modern researchers and difficult to work on and in. Local archaeologists are often...
Routledge, 2013. — 300 p. The Roman Near East has been a source of fascination and exasperation - an immense area, a rich archaeological heritage as well as documents in several local languages, a region with a great depth of urbanisation and development... yet relatively neglected by modern researchers and difficult to work on and in. Local archaeologists are often...
Council for British Research in the Levant, 2004. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0953910210, ISBN13: 9780953910212 (eng). This is an updated and revised second edition of a handbook originally prepared for the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies in Amman, Jordan in 2000 - a reflection of the growing importance of Roman studies in Jordan in recent years. In Part A,...
Amber Books Ltd, 2012. — 303 p. Assassination, incest, intrigue, corruption … For all its unrivalled achievements and surpassing splendour, there was an infinitely darker side to ancient Rome. Nowhere were the stakes higher, the passions fiercer or the politicking more murderous than they were at the very top, in the imperial court.
Robinson, 2019. — 592 p. History is written by the victors, and in the case of Rome the victors also had some extremely eloquent historians. Rome's history, as written by the Romans, follows a remarkable trajectory from its origins as a tiny village of refugees from a conflict zone, to a dominant superpower, before being transformed into the Medieval and Byzantine worlds. But...
Robinson, 2019. — 592 p. History is written by the victors, and in the case of Rome the victors also had some extremely eloquent historians. Rome's history, as written by the Romans, follows a remarkable trajectory from its origins as a tiny village of refugees from a conflict zone, to a dominant superpower, before being transformed into the Medieval and Byzantine worlds. But...
Robinson Publishing, 2013. — 480 p. In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's "Satires" to recent archaeological finds. He examines extraordinary personalities such as Caligula and Nero and seismic events such as the...
Pegasus Books, 2020. — 508 p. History is written by the victors, and Rome had some very eloquent historians. Those the Romans regarded as barbarians left few records of their own, but they had a tremendous impact on the Roman imagination. Resisting from outside Rome’s borders or rebelling from within, they emerge vividly in Rome’s historical tradition, and left a significant...
Barnes & Noble, 2003. — 615 p. Romans’ penchant for domination can be found both on the battlefront and in the bedroom. An anthropological masterpiece, Sexual Life in Ancient Rome satisfies all your curiosities about sexual practices in ancient Rome. From the eroticism of gladiator matches to the sexuality of empresses, Kiefer binds sex with power and considers whether the...
Routledge, 2000. — 615 p. Romans’ penchant for domination can be found both on the battlefront and in the bedroom. An anthropological masterpiece, Sexual Life in Ancient Rome satisfies all your curiosities about sexual practices in ancient Rome. From the eroticism of gladiator matches to the sexuality of empresses, Kiefer binds sex with power and considers whether the Empire’s...
Translator: Markus Bockmuehl — Baylor University Press, 2021. — 180 p. For centuries into the Common Era, Christians faced social ostracism and suspicion from neighbors and authorities alike. At times, this antipathy erupted into violence. Following Christ was a risky allegiance: to be a Christian in the Roman Empire carried with it the implicit risk of being branded a traitor...
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...
Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2009. — 460 s. — ISBN 978-83-226-1795-3 Książka opowiada o odzwierciedleniu rzymskiej idei panowania nad światem w mennictwie władców rzymskich „złotego wieku Antoninów” (96–192) oraz „kryzysu III wieku” (235–284). Zgodnie z przyjętymi założeniami badawczymi kluczem do poznania owej idei imperialnej stają się ikonografia i legendy...
Liberty University, 2022. — 140 p. The imperial Roman advance to and entrenchment along the Danube from the times of Augustus to Aurelian, mirrored by the slow development of various Germanic peoples beyond the 1,700-mile river’s northern bank, set the stage for a series of climactic engagements between the late Roman Empire and their various barbarous neighbors along what had...
Hungarian National Museum, 2008. — 384 p. Proceedings of the 15th International Roman Military Equipment Conference, Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian National Museum 1st to 4th September 2005. The Roman Military Equipment Conference (ROMEC) was held in Hungary for the first time between September 1–4, 2005, in the Hungarian National Museum. ROMEC was an initiative of British, Dutch...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. — 514 p. The cultic worship of the Roman Emperor and his family by the province's population was not only a religious but as well a political matter. It further involves relevant aspects in the field of media, social and economic history. With new epigraphic and numismatic sources, the papers in this volume illuminate the imperial cult in the...
Resource Publications (CA), 2023. — 344 p.: ill. — ISBN-10 1666739200, ISBN-13 978-1666739206. The Roman practice of crucifixion was so abhorrent that even the Romans didn't talk about it. Yet their government practiced crucifixion for centuries. What drew the crowds to the killing fields to watch people die such torturous deaths? What enabled those elite soldiers in the Roman...
Resource Publications (CA), 2023. — 344 p.: ill. — ISBN-10 1666739200, ISBN-13 978-1666739206. The Roman practice of crucifixion was so abhorrent that even the Romans didn't talk about it. Yet their government practiced crucifixion for centuries. What drew the crowds to the killing fields to watch people die such torturous deaths? What enabled those elite soldiers in the Roman...
Brill, 2017. — 382 p. — (Impact of Empire 24). 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...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 237 p. Although Roman centurions appear at crucial stages in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the significance of the centurion’s office for the development of Luke’s story has not been adequately researched. To fill in that void, this study engages the relevant Greco-Roman and Jewish sources that reflect on the image of the Roman military...
Amsterdam University Press, 2015. — 257 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 remains invisible in many...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 448 p. From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 bc) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years―an impressive number by any standard, and fully one-fifth of all recorded history. In fact, the decline and final collapse of the Roman Empire took longer than most other empires even existed. Any historian...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 448 p. From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 bc) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years―an impressive number by any standard, and fully one-fifth of all recorded history. In fact, the decline and final collapse of the Roman Empire took longer than most other empires even existed. Any historian...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 448 p. From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 bc) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years―an impressive number by any standard, and fully one-fifth of all recorded history. In fact, the decline and final collapse of the Roman Empire took longer than most other empires even existed. Any historian...
Routledge, 2017. — 390 p. Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World" explores what it meant to be a child in the Roman world - what were children’s concerns, interests and beliefs - and whether we can find traces of children’s own cultures. By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which...
BAR Publishing, 1984. — 400 p. — (BAR International Series 206). The Petrified Frontier (c. A.D. 50-138). The System Under Stress (138-196). The Severan Renewal (193-235). Collapse and Reconstruction (235-337). The Last Frontier (337-410).
Routledge, 1998. — 218 p. This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from archaeology, classical studies and ancient history to...
Continuum, 2010. — 261 p. Immerse yourself in the sensual delights of Rome in all their guises. Ray Laurence brings an eye-opening and engaging approach to the Roman emperors and their subjects. What's not to like about a guidebook through the consumerist wonderland of ancient Rome, a breezy tour of conspicuous living, lavish dining, mass spectacle, and, of course, sex? The...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 304 p. This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of...
The History Press, 2008. — 256 p. At its height a complex and wealthy state, by the end of the 4th and beginning of the 5th centuries Roman Britain was at the point of collapse. It was soon replaced by Anglo-Saxon culture which migrated across the North Sea. This absorbing study explores the tensions and conflicts between the various tribal groupings that made up Roman Britain...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 240 p. The Roman empire of classical antiquity was a great power without any serious rivals. By contrast, the Roman empire of late antiquity faced another great power to the east, as well as increasingly troublesome barbarian tribes to the north. The ability of the empire to cope with these changed circumstances was affected in part by its...
Macquarie University, 2023. — 87 p. Rather than emphasising the effect of the Roman Empire’s trade with Africa, Arabia, and India on the Roman core itself, this thesis will focus on cities within its periphery. Previously, the Eurocentrism of Rome’s eastern trade has overshadowed the developments that these cities made. As a result, they are often studied as passive...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. — 333 p. — ISBN: 0-19-815079-2. J. E. Lendon offers a new interpretation of how the Roman empire worked in the first four centuries AD. A despotism rooted in force and fear enjoyed widespread support among the ruling classes of the provinces on the basis of an aristocratic culture of honour shared by rulers and ruled. The competitive Roman and...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 328 p. How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire. The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They...
University of Glasgow, 2013. — 75 p. This thesis examines how the Roman political concept of imperium changed as a result of the tumultuous events of the fourth and fifth centuries, from its original meaning as a specifically Roman and pagan concept prior to Constantine, to a specifically Christian concept which found justification in the teachings of the Bible and which could...
Routledge, 2001. — 313 p. This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration of the empire, using the evidence of contemporary writers and historians. Specifically designed for...
Routledge, 2013. — 216 p. In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the world-wide power of the pagan Romans and later on the emergence of Christianity as an Empire-wide religion. How they coped with these dramatic changes and how they influenced the new...
Papers in Honour of Professor Sir Fergus Millar FBA. — Brepols Publishers, 2016. — 284 p. — (Studia Antiqua Australiensia 7). This is the second of two volumes of papers in honour of Professor Fergus Millar FBA, formerly Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford and the leading scholar of Roman History of his generation. This second volume contains papers...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 210 p. — (BAR International Series 3041). Questo libro intende fornire una nuova interpretazione della città romana di Volterra contribuendo a far emergere l’importanza delle élite locali per l’integrazione della comunità nel mondo Romano. Integrando dati letterari, archeologici, epigrafici, toponomastici, questo libro vuole ricostruire le strategie...
Routledge, 1993. — 280 p. The Roman Empire at its height encompassed the majority of the world known to the Romans. This important synthesis of recent findings and scholarship demonstrates how the Romans acquired, kept and controlled their Empire. Lintott goes beyond the preconceptions formed in the period of British Imperial rule and provides a contemporary post-imperial approach...
Papers, proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Rome, June 17-19, 2015). — Brill, 2016. — 265 p. — (Impact of Empire 22). 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...
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...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. — xiv + 277 p. Civic Patronage in the Roman World Precedents for Roman Monumental Civic Fountains Greek Fountains Republican Fountains Augustan Civic Fountains Early Imperial Domestic Fountains Innovative Designs: The Flavian Fountains in Rome Meta Sudans: The Umbilicus of Flavian Rome?: Archaeological Remains — Augustan Symbolism in...
St. Martin’s Press, 1972. — 292 p. Following in the tradition of his eminently popular earlier works, Professor Paul MacKendrick combines archaeology and history in an exploration of the influence of Rome on the civilization and culture of France. Gaul was one of Rome’s richest provinces for almost five hundred years, and the Emperors lavished on it some of their most splendid...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 414 p. Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A.D. 50 and 450. Here, for example, the author applies statistical analysis to broad groups of people on matters ranging from justice through...
Harvard University Press, 1966. — 370 p. In order to achieve its various successes, the Roman Empire required a consensus from its subjects regarding social norms, ethics and even aesthetics. At the same time, there were any number of people whose acts and attitudes were rejections of the norm. This comprehensive treatment of patterns of deviation examines a cross-section of...
Brepols, 2023. — 304 p. — (The Archaeology of Northern Europe 2). Roman bathhouses are considered to be prime markers when studying romanization in the provinces of the Empire, as these very specific - and archaeologically recognizable - buildings, together with their associated ideas about the body and personal health, introduced a decidely Roman habit into regions that had...
Independently Publishers, 2020. — 255 p. In recent decades, studies on the relations of the Greco-Roman world with China have been paid more attention. The studies are mainly relied on the written sources from the Mediterranean world about the Far East and those sources from China about the Far West. Following this tradition, the book will focus on the image of the Roman...
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,...
St. Martin’s Press, 2025. — 435 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-37305-2 The Roman Empire's brilliance is far from ancient history. The Roman Empire Got It Right is your passport to the past that built the future—from engineering marvels like aqueducts, concrete, and sewer systems to groundbreaking advances in health care, law, language, and even your favorite guilty pleasures (street food...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 512 p. Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire. Uncommonly expansive in its chronological scope, this unique two-volume text explores the time period encompassing Julius Caesar’s death in 44 BCE to the end of Justinian’s reign six centuries later. Internationally-recognized author...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 512 p. Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire. Uncommonly expansive in its chronological scope, this unique two-volume text explores the time period encompassing Julius Caesar’s death in 44 BCE to the end of Justinian’s reign six centuries later. Internationally-recognized author...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 576 p. Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume II: Select Anthology is a compendium of texts that trace the main historical changes of the empire over six hundred years, from the death of Julius Caesar to the late Middle Ages. This anthology balances literary texts with other documentary, legal,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 576 p. Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume II: Select Anthology is a compendium of texts that trace the main historical changes of the empire over six hundred years, from the death of Julius Caesar to the late Middle Ages. This anthology balances literary texts with other documentary, legal,...
Classical Press of Wales, 2010. — 350 p. The fifteen papers in this volume discuss issues of Roman social, cultural and political history from the foundation of the Principate to the age of barbarian settlements of the west. Working imaginatively from within the diverse evidence, they show the institutional continuity of the Roman empire between its early and later periods, and...
Duckworth, 1989. — 617 p. John Matthews' brilliant analysis of Ammianus and his world is foundational for the study of the Roman Empire in the fourth century CE. Matthews' Ammianus is a man very much in touch with his times, engaged in many of the exciting events that he describes, and a commentator motivated by a passionate devotion to justice. The empire that he depicts in...
Oxbow Books, 1997. — 200 p. This work collects multiple articles / chapters from various scholars to address the question of Roman Imperialism. The introduction by Mattingly lays out the direction studies of Roman imperialism have taken and are currently taking in the 21st century. Mattingly also lays out briefly the course of the book. The common difficulty with collections of...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 365 p. Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman Empire and to hold a generally favorable view of Rome's impact on its subject peoples. Imperialism, Power, and Identity boldly...
Batsford Ltd., 1995. — 487 p. "Lepcis Magna", one of the greatest of the Roman cities of North Africa and one of the most famous archaeological sites in the Mediterranean, was situated in the region of Tripolitania. Birthplace of the Emperor Septimius Severus, the city has yielded many well-preserved monuments from its Roman past. Mattingly presents valuable information on the...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 620 p. Part of the Penguin History of Britain series, An Imperial Possession is the first major narrative history of Roman Britain for a generation. David Mattingly draws on a wealth of new findings and knowledge to cut through the myths and misunderstandings that so commonly surround our beliefs about this period. From the rebellious chiefs and druids...
Thames and Hudson, 2009. — 208 p. An insider's guide: how to join the Roman legions, wield a gladius, storm cities, and conquer the world. Your emperor needs you for the Roman army! The year is AD 100 and Rome stands supreme and unconquerable from the desert sands of Mesopotamia to the misty highlands of Caledonia. Yet the might of Rome rests completely on the armored shoulders of...
Oneworld Publications, 2014. — 224 p. No other political entity has shaped the modern world like the Roman Empire. Encompassing close to 60 million people and 3 million square kilometers of land, it represented an incredibly diverse and dynamic collection of nations, states, and tribes, all bound to Rome and the ideal of the Roman identity. In the lively and engaging style that...
Greenwood Press, 2002. — 264 p. What was it like to be a typical ancient Roman? Well, author Matz tells you in this gem. Whether by amusement or tidbit, Matz takes a different approach in writing this reference book. Matz takes you through short passages to make his points, and that he successfully does. So, if you want to read about the Roman Empire and don't want to get bored,...
Laterza, 2014. — 275 p.
«L'Impero romano, lungi dall'essere la roccaforte della conservazione, è piuttosto l'immagine della disgregazione di un mondo, la storia della classicità che si disfa e muore: il fatto sociologico più rilevante nella storia della nostra cultura.» In quest'opera, Santo Mazzarino affronta i grandi temi della civiltà occidentale, dal saeculum augustum alla...
Laterza, 2014. — 275 p.
«L'Impero romano, lungi dall'essere la roccaforte della conservazione, è piuttosto l'immagine della disgregazione di un mondo, la storia della classicità che si disfa e muore: il fatto sociologico più rilevante nella storia della nostra cultura.» In quest'opera, Santo Mazzarino affronta i grandi temi della civiltà occidentale, dal saeculum augustum alla...
Laterza, 2015. — 325 p.
«L'Impero romano, lungi dall'essere la roccaforte della conservazione, è piuttosto l'immagine della disgregazione di un mondo, la storia della classicità che si disfa e muore: il fatto sociologico più rilevante nella storia della nostra cultura.» In quest'opera, Santo Mazzarino affronta i grandi temi della civiltà occidentale, dal saeculum Augustum alla...
Laterza, 2015. — 325 p.
«L'Impero romano, lungi dall'essere la roccaforte della conservazione, è piuttosto l'immagine della disgregazione di un mondo, la storia della classicità che si disfa e muore: il fatto sociologico più rilevante nella storia della nostra cultura.» In quest'opera, Santo Mazzarino affronta i grandi temi della civiltà occidentale, dal saeculum Augustum alla...
Pen and Sword, Great Britain, 2016. — 290 p. — ISBN: 978-1-47383-374-6. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran). It explores Roman dealings with the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan) and laid claim to the Indus...
Continuum, 2010. — 256 p. In ancient times there were several major trade routes that connected the Roman Empire to exotic lands in the distant East. Ancient sources reveal that after the Augustan conquest of Egypt, valued commodities from India, Arabia and China became increasingly available to Roman society. These sources describe how Roman traders went far beyond the frontiers...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 272 p. The ancient evidence suggests that international commerce supplied Roman government with up to a third of the revenues that sustained their empire. In ancient times large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 297 p. This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little attention paid to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy of note have...
Second edition. — Clarendon Press, 1973. — xx + 622 p., 40 plates, 1 plan. Meiggs' study of ancient Ostia was first published in 1960. The book was so unanimously praised that already six years later this original edition was out of print. Now we have the second edition, which in reality is rather a reprint: as the author states (pag. xi), economic considerations ruled out a...
Routledge, 2004. — 192 p. This fresh and engaging book looks at each of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar in 44 BC to Romulus Augustulus in AD 476, illuminating not only the manner of their deaths but what their final days tell us about their lives. We also hear how the most powerful position in the history of the Western world held a permanent appeal, despite its perils,...
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,...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 430 p. Untersuchungen zu Statusmerkmalen und Selbstverständnis spätrömischer senatorischer Eliten verzeichnen Konjunktur. Ebenso rückten im Zuge einer kulturhistorischen Wende Medien und Praktiken des kulturellen Gedächtnisses in den Fokus der Forschung. Blickt man hingegen auf die Folgefrage nach Vergangenheitsbezug, Elitenkommunikation und...
Peeters Publishers, 2019. — 259 p. This book presents the proceedings of a conference held by the 'Alexandru Ioan Cuza' University of Iasi in November 2017. Scholars from Iasi, Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca gathered to present not only the recent results of their work, but to discuss in which ways the river frontier has influenced economic, social and religious interchange. Roman...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. — 436 p. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 123). The Roman province of Moesia inferior (the actual northern Bulgaria and south-eastern Romania) was integrated gradually in the Roman Empire and the territory occupation was done in different ways both chronologically and spatially. The role of soldiers and veterans was decisive...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 338 p. — (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 73). Pervading Empire addresses the issue of diversity within the Roman Empire and promotes interpretations that go beyond general and often abstract theoretical framings. The baseline of the volume is the notion that reality is created by the endless and multi-directional relations of...
Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned....
Ed. by H. M. Cotton and G. M. Rogers. Chapel Hill – London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. — 505 p. ISBN: 0-8078-2852-1 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN: 0-8078-5520-0 (pbk.: alk. paper) Fergus Millar, Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford emeritus, is one of the most influential ancient historians of the twentieth century. Since the publication of...
Classical Press of Wales, 2005. — 350 p. Asia Minor under Rome was one of the wealthiest and most developed parts of the Empire, but there have been few modern studies of its economics. The twelve papers in this book, by an international team of scholars, work from literary texts, inscriptions, coinage and archaeology. They study the direct impact of Roman rule; 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...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 584 p. The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire extended from northern Syria to the western Caucasus, across a remote and desolate region 800 miles from the Aegean. It followed the great Euphrates valley to penetrate the harsh mountains of Armenia Minor and south of the Black Sea, along the Pontic coast to the finally reach the foothills of the...
London - New York: Pluto Press, 2010. – 171 p. ISBN: 978-0-7453-2870-6 (hardback) ISBN: 978-0-7453-2869-0 (paperback) This series highlights the relevance of past empires for our contemporary world. It is concerned primarily with the political nature of connections between the past and the present. The approach is radical in that it directs the reader to a recognition of how...
Iguana Books, 2014. — 224 p. It has been fashionable to view the Classical past as a thing dead and frozen, scarcely accessible and certainly of no relevance to current international affairs. It has also been fashionable to over-sensationalize the past, and draw conclusions that are hard to justify in the light of the available evidence. The essays in this book explore aspects...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 512 pages. — ISBN: 9780199214648
The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of 'empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and...
University of California Press, 2025. — 282 p. At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperial powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East were Rome and Parthia. In this book, Jake Nabel analyzes Roman-Parthian interstate politics by focusing on a group of princes from the Arsacid family - the ruling dynasty of Parthia - who were sent to live at the Roman...
University of California Press, 2025. — 282 p. At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperial powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East were Rome and Parthia. In this book, Jake Nabel analyzes Roman-Parthian interstate politics by focusing on a group of princes from the Arsacid family - the ruling dynasty of Parthia - who were sent to live at the Roman...
Alpha Books, 2002. — 409 p. Did you ever stop and notice how much your daily life is influenced by the contributions of the Romans? Satire, tax shelters, the interstate highway system, the sports stadium, the health club, and the real biggie and the reason you have the ground under your feet: Manifest Destiny.The CIG to the Roman Empire you get: -- Why Rome wasn't built in a day:...
Routledge, 1994. — 303 p. The Economy of Roman Palestine presents a description of the economy of the province of Judea-Palestina in the Roman era (AD 70 to AD 400) on the basis of a broad selection of primary rabbinic sources and a considerable volume of archaeological findings. The period studied is characterised by demographic growth and corresponding economic development. 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...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 224 p. This is a bold reassessment of one of the pivotal points in British history. P.J. O’Gorman analyses the sources for the period from Julius Caesar’s first forays into these islands to the invasion under the Emperor Claudius and the conclusions he reaches are nothing short of radical and call into question much of the accepted narrative of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 224 p. This is a bold reassessment of one of the pivotal points in British history. P.J. O’Gorman analyses the sources for the period from Julius Caesar’s first forays into these islands to the invasion under the Emperor Claudius and the conclusions he reaches are nothing short of radical and call into question much of the accepted narrative of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 224 p. This is a bold reassessment of one of the pivotal points in British history. P.J. O’Gorman analyses the sources for the period from Julius Caesar’s first forays into these islands to the invasion under the Emperor Claudius and the conclusions he reaches are nothing short of radical and call into question much of the accepted narrative of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 304 p. Foreword. Contents. Juno in Archaic Italy. Adherence to the Aventine Canon and the Lex Tiburtina. The Gods of the Grove Albunea. Saturn and the Saturnian Verse. On Mutinus Titinus a Study in Etrusco-Roman Religion and Topography. Key to the Illustrations. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 234 p. — (Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages 10). 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...
American Schools of Oriental Research, 1986 — 270 p. — (American Schools of Oriental Research. Dissertations Series 6). South of the Euphrates the imperial frontier extended along the edge of the Syrian Desert to the Red Sea. This southeastern frontier, despite some surveys by scholars many years ago, was until recently little known. Yet few frontiers have had greater impact...
American Schools of Oriental Research, 1986 — 248 p. — (American Schools of Oriental Research. Dissertations Series 6). South of the Euphrates the imperial frontier extended along the edge of the Syrian Desert to the Red Sea. This southeastern frontier, despite some surveys by scholars many years ago, was until recently little known. Yet few frontiers have had greater impact...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2006. — 496 p. Until the 1980s, the Roman frontier in modern Jordan was among the least studied of the empire's far-flung border regions. From 1980 until 1989, the Limes Arabicus Project investigated the frontier east of the Dead Sea. Excavation focused on the late Roman legionary fortress of el-Lejjun as well as soundings of four...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2006. - 558 p. Until the 1980s, the Roman frontier in modern Jordan was among the least studied of the empire's far-flung border regions. From 1980 until 1989, the Limes Arabicus Project investigated the frontier east of the Dead Sea. Excavation focused on the late Roman legionary fortress of el-Lejjun as well as soundings of four...
B.A.R., 1987. — 405 p. — (BAR international series 340(i)). Report on the work done by the Limes Arabicus project from 1980-1985, a surveying project, designed to collect and record information on the material remains of Roman Arabia. These two volumes contain the results of the survey of the Limes zone, a detailed examination of the legionary fortress of El-Lejju'n,...
B.A.R., 1987. — 426 p. — (BAR international series 340(ii)). Report on the work done by the Limes Arabicus project from 1980-1985, a surveying project, designed to collect and record information on the material remains of Roman Arabia. These two volumes contain the results of the survey of the Limes zone, a detailed examination of the legionary fortress of El-Lejju'n,...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2009. — 288 p. La historia de Roma es tan apasionante como compleja, llena de conspiraciones, campañas bélicas y estratagemas políticas. Los dos volúmenes en que Bárbara Pastor nos presenta la historia de este imperio, son indispensables para manejarse con soltura por esta telaraña de intereses políticos y militares. Breve Historia de la antigua Roma. El...
Brill Academic, 2019. — 343 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 426; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 426). 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 376 p. Is music just matter of hearing and producing notes? And is it of interest just to musicians? By exploring different authors and philosophical trends of the Roman Empire, from Philo of Alexandria to Alexander of Aphrodisias, from the rebirth of Platonism with Plutarch to the last Neoplatonists, this book sheds light on different ways...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 304 p. Spanning over a thousand years and an immense geographical area, the Roman Empire was the greatest in world history. At its most powerful, the Empire cast a shadow across the known world, and its legacy continues to influence politics, art and culture around the world today. Rome's power was won on the battlefield, and the greatness of the Empire...
University of California Press, 1976. — 362 p. The Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman Peace") is a roughly 200-year-long timespan of Roman ancient history which is identified as a period and golden age of increased as well as sustained Roman imperialism, order, prosperous stability, hegemonial power and expansion, despite a number of revolts, wars and continuing competition with...
Paris: Éditions L'Harmattan, 1981. — 458 p. Castellum Dimmidi Nouvelle inscription sur la carrière de Suétone l’historien Inscriptions de la Tripolitaine romaine Deux carrières équestres d’Hippone Borne de Ksar Mahidjiba Deux carrières équestres de Lambèse et de Zana, (Diana Veteranorum) Trois inscriptions mutilées de la région de Constantine Remarques sur l’onomastique de...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 318 p. Sicily has been the fulcrum of the Mediterranean throughout history. The island’s central geographical position and its status as ancient Rome’s first overseas province make it key to understanding the development of the Roman Empire. Yet Sicily’s crucial role in the empire has been largely overlooked by scholars of classical antiquity,...
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. — 691 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history). — ISBN: 978-0-631-22644-4. A Companion to the Roman Empire provides readers with a guide both to Roman imperial history and to the field of Roman studies, taking account of the most recent discoveries. This Companion brings together thirty original essays guiding readers through...
Quercus Publishing, 2016. — 336 p. The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the maniac Commodus and beyond. Interwoven with these are vivid descriptions of sports and art,...
London: Quercus, 2007. — 255 p. — ISBN-13 978-1847240101. 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....
Clarendon Press, 1990. — 461 p. The Sybylline Oracles that provide narratives of Roman history are our best sources for popular understanding of contemporary events, since they were written by those with no obvious connection with the government. The Thirteenth Oracle is particularly interesting as it remains the only first-hand narrative of the critical years of the mid-third...
Harvard University Press, 1994. - 281 p. - (Revealing Antiquity). To the practical modern mind, the idea of divine prophecy is more ludicrous than sublime. Yet to our cultural forebears in ancient Greece and Rome, prophecy was anything but marginal; it was in fact the basic medium for recalling significant past events and expressing hopes for the future, and it offered...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 424 p. The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 424 p. The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 421 p. Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome’s significance within comparative studies. Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis...
Franz Steiner, 2001. — xi, 381 S. — (Historia Einzelschriften 153). Die Beiträge dieser Auswahl um die Themenkreise Constantin – Trier – Römer und Germanen – Bilder – Münzen erschienen in rund 45 Jahren in zahlreichen Publikationen. Ausgehend von den Münzen blickt Maria R.-Alföldi hier auf die übergeordneten Zusammenhänge und die wesentlichen historischen Fragen. Gloria...
Amsterdam University Press, 2019. — 328 p. This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references to the past play a significant role....
Fortress Press, 2013. — 271 p. A selection of the most important sources for the cultural and political context of the early Roman Empire and the New Testament writings, Roman Imperial Texts includes freshly translated public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled protest from the Empire's subject peoples all introduced by Mark Reasoner.
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 144 p. This book examines the question of identity in the Roman provinces of the western empire. It takes an innovative approach in looking at the wider discourses or ideologies through which an individual sense of self was learnt and expressed. This wide-ranging survey considers ethnic identity, status, gender and age. Rather than constructing a paradigm...
Ecole Française de Rome, 2003. — 610 p. Aborde l'histoire de la délation criminelle et politique dans l'Empire romain, un instrument visant au maintien de l'ordre et à la sûreté de l'Etat. La délation constituait donc un outil privilégié dans cette volonté de tout connaître et de tout savoir de la part du prince, une qualité indispensable à l'exercice du pouvoir de...
Athens: Scuola archeologica italiana di Atene, 2008. — 310 p. — (Tripodes 6). This volume collects the papers presented at the international Workshop Pathways to Power: Civic Elites in the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire, which was held at the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, 19th December 2005. The idea of organizing a new colloquium focused on civic elites in the...
New York: Metro Books, 2008. — 511 p. — ISBN-13 978-1435104556. A complete history of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, chronicling the story of the most important and influential civilization the world has ever known.
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 393 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 355; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 355). 'Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain' offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the...
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.
Narr Francke Attempto / UTB, 2019. — 214 p. This volume brings together a large number of sources with which to illustrate the problem of religious violence in relation to the history of Christianity in the Roman Empire and post-Roman world. The sources are presented in both the original languages and in new English translation and are accompanied by introductions, comments,...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 314 p. Dynastic Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian Period examines the production of Julio-Claudian dynastic imagery from ca. 31 B.C. to 68 C.E., charting the varying perceptions of the first Imperial family in both Rome and the provinces. During this time, Roman power began to be linked to and defined as a...
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972. — 230 p. This excellent book is the first systematic study of Egyptian and Egyptianizing monuments discovered in Rome and its neighbourhood (Tivoli, Ostia). The Catalogue Raisonné forms the major part of the book (55-147) in which the author gives as accurately as possible, all the scientific data of each document, namely the provenance, the present...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 288 p. Tokens are underutilised artefacts from the ancient world, but as everyday objects they were key in mediating human interactions. This book provides an accessible introduction to tokens from Roman Italy. It explores their role in the creation of imperial imagery, as well as what they can reveal about the numerous identities that...
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.
Macquarie University, 2022. — 260 p. In 106 CE the former kingdom of Nabataea was incorporated into the Roman Empire as the Province of Arabia. In 132 CE Babatha and Salome Komaïse, Jewish women who had been inhabitants of the Province, fled to a cave near the Dead Sea where their archives of legal documents were later discovered. Those archives include documents from the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 337 p. The history of Roman imperial religion is of fundamental importance to the history of religion in Europe. Emerging from a decade of research, From Jupiter to Christ demonstrates that the decisive change within the Roman imperial period was not a growing number of religions or changes in their ranking and success, but a modification...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 348 p. Images relating to imperial power were produced all over the Roman Empire at every social level, and even images created at the centre were constantly remade as they were reproduced, reappropriated, and reinterpreted across the empire. This book employs the language of social dynamics, drawn from economics, sociology, and psychology,...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 348 p. Images relating to imperial power were produced all over the Roman Empire at every social level, and even images created at the centre were constantly remade as they were reproduced, reappropriated, and reinterpreted across the empire. This book employs the language of social dynamics, drawn from economics, sociology, and psychology,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 472 p. The use of stone in vast quantities is a ubiquitous and defining feature of the material culture of the Roman world. In this volume, Russell provides a new and wide-ranging examination of the production, distribution, and use of carved stone objects throughout the Roman world, including how enormous quantities of high-quality white and...
The History Press, 2011. — 288 p. When we think of Roman Britain we tend to think of a land of togas and richly decorated palaces with Britons happily going about their much improved daily business under the benign gaze of Rome. This image is to a great extent a fiction. In fact, Britons were some of the least enthusiastic members of the Roman Empire. A few adopted Roman ways...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — xiv, 546 p. Warfare was the single biggest preoccupation of historians in antiquity. In recent decades fresh textual interpretations, numerous new archaeological discoveries and a much broader analytical focus emphasising social, economic, political and cultural approaches have transformed our understanding of ancient warfare. This two-volume...
Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992. — 179 p. Introduction Note on Testamentary Adoptions during the Republic Adoptive Nomenclature during the Republic and the early Empire Adoptive Nomenclature during the Empire. The Sources Catalogue of Adoptions Notes on the Catalogue of Adoptions Notes on Non-adoptive Nomenclature Conclusion Appendix. Further Notes on Some Names
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...
Paris, 2018. — 561 p. La présente recherche sous la direction de J.-M. Carrié, a porté sur les fédérés (foederati), ces combattants barbares servant dans leurs contingents ethnico-tactiques sous commandement de leurs chefs ethniques. Les fédérés étaient fournis par des groupes ethniques alliés de l’Empire dans le cadre de traités (foedus/foedera, spondê/spondai,...
Paris, 2018. — 560 p. La présente recherche sous la direction de J.-M. Carrié, a porté sur les fédérés (foederati), ces combattants barbares servant dans leurs contingents ethnico-tactiques sous commandement de leurs chefs ethniques. Les fédérés étaient fournis par des groupes ethniques alliés de l’Empire dans le cadre de traités (foedus/foedera, spondê/spondai,...
Paris, 2018. — 1882 p. La présente recherche sous la direction de J.-M. Carrié, a porté sur les fédérés (foederati), ces combattants barbares servant dans leurs contingents ethnico-tactiques sous commandement de leurs chefs ethniques. Les fédérés étaient fournis par des groupes ethniques alliés de l’Empire dans le cadre de traités (foedus/foedera, spondê/spondai,...
Elknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2006. — 688 p. The ancient Middle East was the theater of passionate interaction between Phoenicians, Aramaeans, Arabs, Jews, Greeks, and Romans. At the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and the Arabian peninsula, the area dominated by what the Romans called Syria was at times a scene of violent confrontation,...
Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2016. — 257 s. — ISBN: 978-83-232-2976-6 Książka poświęcona jest kwestii sukcesji władzy cesarskiej w okresie rządów pierwszej dynastii cesarskiej. Pomimo że pryncypat nie był formalnie dziedziczną monarchią, to jednak w praktyce obserwujemy wyraźną tendencję do przekazywania władzy cesarskiej w obrębie rodziny panującej. August i jego kolejni...
London: Thames and Hadson Ltd, 1995. — 244 p. — ISBN: 0-500-05077-5. What do we know of the lives and personalities of the 80 emperors who reiged from Augustus to the fall of Rome? «Chronicle of the Roman Emperors» is the first book to focus on the succession of rulers of imperial Rome, using timelines and other visual aids throughout. Now no one need be in any doubt as to who...
De Gruyter, 2005. — 360 S. — (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 50). The most important source for the situation on the Upper Rhine in Late Classical Antiquity is to be found in the Notitia Dignitatum, a register of all the offices and honours of the Late Roman Empire. The present book deals with one office in the Notitia, the Dux Mogontiacensis,...
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012. - 458p. Пособие по экономической истории Древнего Рима "The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy offers readers a comprehensive and innovative introduction to the economy of the Roman Empire. Focusing on the principal determinants, features, and consequences of Roman economic development and integrating additional web-based...
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...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 360 p. - Provides a comprehensive reassessment of the legal aspects of the colonate - Adopts an innovative approach to the Theodosian and Justinian Codes as valuable historical sources assessed within their original contexts - Presents all ancient sources in translation The fourth and fifth centuries AD gave rise to a particular phenomenon in...
Brill, 2016. — 274 p. — (Impact of Empire 21). — ISBN 978-90-04-32561-6 ; ISBN 978-90-04-32675-0. Subjects: ancient history, classical studies, social history, archaeology, art & architecture, classical studies. This volume offers an expansive approach to interactions between Romans and those beyond the borders of Rome. The range of papers included here is wide, both in terms...
William Collins, 2024. — 304 p. A superb and illuminating history of Imperial Rome's most important women – dispelling the myths and misogyny that have distorted their reputations for over 2000 years. Writer, activist and journalist Joan Smith has worked for years to raise awareness of violence against women and girls, and has been instrumental in bringing the innate misogyny...
Pen and Sword History, 2024. — 208 p. This book provides a unique take on the history of Roman Britain from Julius Caesar’s first invasion to the end of Roman authority. In 55 BC, on a stretch of beach near Deal in East Kent, the Romans’ first invasion was in great danger of being pushed back into the sea by a host of Britons defending the beach. The eagle bearer of the Tenth...
Kraków: Avalon, 2008. — 395 s. Książka opowiada o procesie ponownego zjednoczenia państwa rzymskiego za rządów Aureliana. Cesarz po pokonaniu wywodzącej się z Palmyry Zenobii oraz Tetricusa ponownie zunifikował państwo rzymskie.
Bonn: R. Habelt, 1971. — 112 p. — (Antiquitas Reihe IV - Beiträge zur Historia-Augusta-Forschung, Serie 1 Band 8). The Historia Augusta is a garden of delights, with abundant refreshment, beteuert Sir Ronald Syme und vermittelt unter diesem Aspekt all’ denen, die bei dem “Gebrauch des ebenso gefährlichen wie unentbehrlichen Buches in stetiger Verlegenheit und Unsicherheit”...
Clarendon Press, 1971. — 316 p. The bogus names. Ipse ille patriarcha. Ignotus, the good biographer. The secondary Vitae. The nomen Antoninorum. The fame of Trajan. More about Marius Maximus. The careers of Maximus and Dio. The reign of Severus Alexander. Gordianus, Pupienus, Balbinus. The emperor Maximinus. Emperors from Illyricum. From Decius to Diocletian. Illyricum in the...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 336 p. This volume offers an innovative analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies. Its main contention is that, during the period in which Italy was subject to single rule, political culture took on a specific form, being the product of the continued existence of two...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 336 p. This volume offers an innovative analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies. Its main contention is that, during the period in which Italy was subject to single rule, political culture took on a specific form, being the product of the continued existence of two...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 336 p. This volume offers an innovative analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies. Its main contention is that, during the period in which Italy was subject to single rule, political culture took on a specific form, being the product of the continued existence of two...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1995. — 253 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 124). 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...
UCL Press, 2024. — 354 p. Materialising the Roman Empire edited by Jeremy Tanner and Andrew Gardner is a fresh approach to Roman archaeology that elucidates the impact of material culture in shaping imperial life, from technological innovations to social structures. This book defines an innovative research agenda for Roman archaeology, highlighting the diverse ways in which the...
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 of...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 395 p. Andre Tchernia is one of the leading experts on amphorae as a source of economic history, a pioneer of maritime archaeology, and author of a wealth of articles on Roman trade, notably the wine trade. This book brings together the author's previously published essays, updated and revised, with recent notes and prefaced with an entirely new...
Princeton University Press, 2012. - 320 р. - (Princeton Economic History of the Western World ) The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the...
Princeton University Press, 2012. - 320 р. - (Princeton Economic History of the Western World ) The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the...
Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1985. — XI, 339 S., 80 Tf. — ISBN 3-8053-0774-8. Die Probleme des römischen Imports im Freien Germanien sind seit Beginn der archäologisch-historischen Forschungen in Mitteleuropa eines der zentralen Themen. Untersuchungen zur Chronologie, zur Wirtschafts- und Handelsgeschichte, zur Sozialstruktur der germanischen Stämme und auch zur...
Brill, 2013. — 262 p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 37). Ancient Roman trade was severely hampered by slow transportation and by the absence of a state that helped traders enforce their contracts. In Trading Communities in the Roman World: A Micro-Economic and Institutional Perspective Taco Terpstra offers a new explanation of how traders in the Roman Empire...
London : Egypt Exploration Society, 1924. — Texts (2065-2156). The Oxyrhynchus Papyri is an ongoing series of publications of (and about) a large set of ancient manuscripts found near Oxyrynchus (mostly from Roman Times) in Egypt.
Edited with translations and notes by Arthur S. Hunt. — London : Egypt Exploration Society, 1927. — Texts (2157-2207). The Oxyrhynchus Papyri is an ongoing series of publications of (and about) a large set of ancient manuscripts found near Oxyrynchus (mostly from Roman Times) in Egypt.
Edited with translations and notes by E. Lobel. — London : Egypt Exploration Society, 1941. — Texts (2208-2244). The Oxyrhynchus Papyri is an ongoing series of publications of (and about) a large set of ancient manuscripts found near Oxyrynchus (mostly from Roman Times) in Egypt.
Edited with translations and notes by E. Lobel [and others]. — London : Egypt Exploration Society, 1948. — Texts (2245-2287). The Oxyrhynchus Papyri is an ongoing series of publications of (and about) a large set of ancient manuscripts found near Oxyrynchus (mostly from Roman Times) in Egypt.
Oxon – New York: Routledge, 2007. – 264 p. ISBN: 0-203-96803-4 Master e-book ISBN: ISBN10: 0-415-40999-3 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-96803-4 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-40999-5 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-96803-1 (ebk) The first book to ever examine ancient Roman traffic, this well-illustrated volume looks in detail at the construction of Roman road, and studies the myriad of road users of the...
Profile Books, 2022. — 298 p. Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative. Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia (or Turkey as we know it), past the already ancient Luxor monuments in Roman Egypt, and by...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. — (Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs). 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....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. — (Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs). 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....
Pen & Sword History, 2023. — 240 p. Between 27 BCE and 476 CE a series of men became Roman Emperor, ruling a domain that stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Some of them did this rather well, expanding Rome’s territories further, installing just laws and maintaining order within the city. Others, however, were distinctly less successful at the job. Ancient...
Pen & Sword History, 2023. — 240 p. Between 27 BCE and 476 CE a series of men became Roman Emperor, ruling a domain that stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Some of them did this rather well, expanding Rome’s territories further, installing just laws and maintaining order within the city. Others, however, were distinctly less successful at the job. Ancient...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018. — 668 p. — (Geographica Historica 40). This study assesses the environmental, social and economic consequences of the Roman incorporation of the North African province of Mauretania Tingitana through the lens of marine resource exploitation. A new methodology is applied to analyse archaeological and descriptive data from the mid-1st to late 3rd...
Routledge, 2007. — 300 p. Drawing on unusually broad range of sources for this study of Imperial period philosophical thought, Michael Trapp examines the central issues of personal morality, political theory, and social organization: philosophy as the pursuit of self-improvement and happiness; the conceptualization and management of emotion; attitudes and obligations to others;...
Unter Mitarbeit von Ursula Schnegg. — Wien; Köln; Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2006. — 432 S. — ISBN: 3-205-77509-6, ISBN: 978-3-205-77509-6. This volume is an outcome of the FWF project P14853 "Ethnographie - Gender-Perspektive - Antikerezeption". The research project intended to connect ancient ethnography, gender studies and the running methodological debate. For this purpose the...
Routledge, 2016. — 1295 p. First published in 2001. Coinage and History of the Roman Empire, an invaluable study in the fields of Roman history and numismatics, is destined to be a classic. Current scholarship is used throughout the biographies and catalog listings to set straight the historical record. Hundreds of significant updates in chronology, historical perspective and...
Academica Press, 2020. — 120 p. The story of Rome and its people draws on ancient legends passed down from generation to generation. Circulating throughout the Mediterranean world in the centuries after Rome’s legendary founding, they were later enshrined in the words of the poets and historians of the great Augustan age and have been studied ever since. Before it was a mighty...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 154 p. — (BAR International Series 3000). The Resilience of the Roman Empire discusses the relationship between population and regional development in the Roman world from the perspective of archaeology. By adapting a comparative approach, the focus of the volume lies on exploring the various ways in which regional communities actively responded to...
Brill, 1997. — 322 p. — (Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology 17). This study examines the mentalité of craftsmen and traders in the Greek cities of the Roman empire through the epigraphic evidence for their membership of private associations based on shared profession. It places these associations firmly in the context of the civic world of the cities in which...
Routledge, 2017. — 236 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 multicultural...
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...
Routledge, 2019. — 214 p. Presenting a new and revealing overview of the ruling classes of the Roman Empire, this volume explores aspects of the relations between the official state structures of Rome and local provincial elites. The central objective of the volume is to present as complex a picture as possible of the provincial leaderships and their many and varied responses...
Brill Academic Pub, 2002. — 529 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 144). This archaeological study investigates the meaning of the Egyptian and egyptianising artefacts that have been preserved from the Roman world in different ways. Its point of departure is a detailed study on the so-called Nilotic scenes or Nilotic landscapes. The book presents a comprehensive and...
Biblioteca Universitate Rizzoli, 2009. — 778 p. "La Grecia conquistata conquistò il suo feroce vincitore portando nel Lazio contadino le sue arti": recitano i versi di Orazio. Vi sono alcuni fondamentali motivi, secondo Paul Veyne, studioso francese del mondo classico, perché l'impero di Roma assuma finalmente il nome di greco-romano, riconoscendo così apertamente il contributo...
Warszawa, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1993. — 346 s. Joseph Vogt (1895-1986),wybitny niemiecki historyk starożytności, wychowanek i wieloletni profesor uniwersytetu w Tybindze, debiutował w roku 1924 rozprawą o monetach aleksandryjskich. W licznych późniejszych publikacjach zajmował się przede wszystkim historią starożytnego Rzymu. Do najważniejszych jego książek należą:...
Second Edition — Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 186 p. Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. — 263 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 173). Weiss' detailed study, a thesis, of the public role of slaves in the cities of the Roman empire is based on an extensive catalogue of inscriptions which are presented in Latin or Greek. This is preceded by an annotated discussion of Roman civil servants, the public duties of the personal servants of...
Gonnelli, 2006. — 200 p. The strategi and royal scribes were the chief administrative officials of the nomes of Roman Egypt. The presence of named individuals with known terms of office is therefore often significant in the dating of documentary papyri. Updating Volume XV of the Papyrologica Florentina series (1987), this volume takes account of the relevant texts in nearly 150...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. — 360 p. Социально-экономический анализ пограничной зоны Римской империи. Although the Roman empire was one of the longest lasting in history, it was never ideologically conceived by its rulers or inhabitants as a territory within fixed limits. Yet Roman armies clearly reached certain points—which today we call frontiers—where they simply...
London UK: Routledge, 2004. — x, 246 p : ill., maps. Do the Romans have anything to teach us about the way that they saw the world, and the way they ran their empire? How did they deal with questions of frontiers and migration, so often in the news today? This collection of ten important essays by C. R. Whittaker, engages with debates and controversies about the Roman frontiers...
Routledge, 2014. — 234 p. There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity. Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to describe a range of...
Routledge, 1992. — 231 p. Historians have formulated an endless number of theories to explain the role of gladiatorial games in Roman culture. In Emperors and Gladiators, Thomas Wiedemann examines the role of public ceremonies in the context of competition within the class of Roman elites: these games served as public demonstrations of the power of the Roman community or sometimes...
Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1980. — 225 s. — ISBN 83-04-00349-x. Książka “Główny szlak bursztynowy w czasach Cesarstwa Rzymskiego” autorstwa Jerzego Wielowiejskiego, wydana w 1980 roku, to obszerny zbiór artykułów naukowych poświęconych jednej z najważniejszych dróg handlowych starożytności - szlakowi bursztynowemu. Książka ta stanowi wyczerpujące źródło wiedzy...
St. Martin’s Press, 1997. — 342 p. The Roman Empire was one of the most powerful forces in history. However, few people realize that this vast empire was guarded by one frontier, a series of natural and man-made barriers, including Hadrian's Wall. It is impossible to have a true understanding of the Roman Empire without first investigating the scope of this amazing frontier....
St. Martin’s Press, 1997. — 342 p. The Roman Empire was one of the most powerful forces in history. However, few people realize that this vast empire was guarded by one frontier, a series of natural and man-made barriers, including Hadrian's Wall. It is impossible to have a true understanding of the Roman Empire without first investigating the scope of this amazing frontier....
Gorgias Press, 2019. — 51 p. In this piece Mary Gilmore Williams uses literary and epigraphic evidence to reconstruct a portrait of two key women of the second century AD, Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus and mother of Cara-calla, and her niece Julia Mamaea.
Oxford University Press, 2018. — xxii + 656 p. — (Oxford studies on the Roman economy). This volume presents eighteen papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discussing trade in the Roman Empire during the period c.100 BC to AD 350. It focuses especially on the role of the Roman state in shaping the institutional framework for trade within and outside the empire,...
University of California Press, 1997. — 388 p. The names of early Germanic warrior-tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends, and the real story of the part they played in transforming the ancient world is no less gripping. Herwig Wolfram’s panoramic history spans the great migrations of the Germanic peoples and the rise and fall of their kingdoms between the third and...
Verlag C.H. Beck, 2006. — 131 p. Als die Römer frech geworden, zogen sie nach Deutschlands Norden. Unübersehbare Zeugnisse der sprichwörtlich gewordenen antik-römischen Expansion begegnen uns auch heute noch allenthalben in baulichen Überresten wie dem Limes und in zahlreichen Einzelfunden. Aber der Kontakt zwischen den Römern und den germanischen Stämmen gestaltete sich weit...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 380 p. Luke-Acts contains a wealth of material that is relevant to politics, and the relationship between Jesus and his followers and the Roman Empire becomes an issue at a number of points. The author's fundamental attitude toward Rome is hard to discern, however. The complexity of Luke's task as both a creative writer and a mediator of received tradition,...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 396 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 121). Prosopographical Catalogue, Part 1: Roman Military Tribunes (tribuni militum in exercitu) and in the Garrison of the Roman Capital (tribuni militum in praetorio) Roman Military Tribunes is a historical and prosopographical study of the men who served in that rank between the first century BC and the third...
СПб.: Амфора, 2008. — 451 с. — (ВВС) — ISBN: 978-5-367-00673-5. В книге "Древний Рим. Взлёт и падение империи" рассказывается о величайшей из всех существовавших в мире империй. Рассматривая шесть важнейших поворотных пунктов, во многом определивших историю Рима, автор строит своё захватывающее повествование о взлётах и падениях первой в мировой истории сверхдержавы –...
СПб.: Амфора, 2008. – 451 с. — (ВВС). — ISBN 978-5-367-00673-5. В книге "Древний Рим. Взлёт и падение империи" рассказывается о величайшей из всех существовавших в мире империй. Рассматривая шесть важнейших поворотных пунктов, во многом определивших историю Рима, автор строит своё захватывающее повествование о взлётах и падениях первой в мировой истории сверхдержавы –...
Год: 2007.
Автор: Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins / Берд М., Хопкинс К.
Переводчик: Николаев А.
Серия: Биографии чудес света.
Язык: Русский.
Количество страниц: 192.
Это грандиозное сооружение олицетворяет собой имперское величие и могущество Древнего Рима. Его мгновенно узнаваемый силуэт с течением времени стал эмблемой Вечного города, подобно Эйфелевой башне для Парижа или...
Перевод: Николаев А. — М.: Эксмо; СПб.: Мидгард, 2007. — 192 с. — (Биографии чудес света). Это грандиозное сооружение олицетворяет собой имперское величие и могущество Древнего Рима. Его мгновенно узнаваемый силуэт с течением времени стал эмблемой Вечного города, подобно Эйфелевой башне для Парижа или Кремлю для Москвы. Колизей был свидетелем множества знаменательных событий,...
Перевод: Николаев А. — М.: Эксмо; СПб.: Мидгард, 2007. — 192 с. — (Биографии чудес света). Это грандиозное сооружение олицетворяет собой имперское величие и могущество Древнего Рима. Его мгновенно узнаваемый силуэт с течением времени стал эмблемой Вечного города, подобно Эйфелевой башне для Парижа или Кремлю для Москвы. Колизей был свидетелем множества знаменательных событий,...
Перевод: Николаев А. — М.: Эксмо; СПб.: Мидгард, 2007. — 192 с. — (Биографии чудес света). Это грандиозное сооружение олицетворяет собой имперское величие и могущество Древнего Рима. Его мгновенно узнаваемый силуэт с течением времени стал эмблемой Вечного города, подобно Эйфелевой башне для Парижа или Кремлю для Москвы. Колизей был свидетелем множества знаменательных событий,...
М.: Альпина Паблишер, 2017. — 696 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91671-639-9. Мы встречаемся с образами и историей Древнего Рима в науке, литературе, искусстве. Но насколько близки к реальности наши представления об эпохе, на которую опирается вся западная цивилизация? Ведущий мировой специалист по древней истории Мэри Бирд в своей книге «SPQR: История Древнего Рима» объясняет, почему нам...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2017. — 696 с. Древний Рим — тема всеобщего интереса, опыты знакомства с его образами и историей сопровождают нас в науках, литературе, искусстве. Но насколько близки к реальности наши представления о той эпохе? Книга Мэри Бирд, одного из ведущих мировых специалистов по древней истории, неизбежно изменит многие из них. Сенат и народ, Цицерон и Катилина,...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 437 с. «Император Рима» - это не типичный хронологический рассказ о римских правителях, один император за другим: безумный Калигула, чудовище Нерон, философ Марк Аврелий. Вместо этого Бирд задает другие, зачастую более масштабные и глубокие вопросы: Какой властью обладали императоры?...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 437 с. «Император Рима» - это не типичный хронологический рассказ о римских правителях, один император за другим: безумный Калигула, чудовище Нерон, философ Марк Аврелий. Вместо этого Бирд задает другие, зачастую более масштабные и глубокие вопросы: Какой властью обладали императоры?...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 437 с. «Император Рима» - это не типичный хронологический рассказ о римских правителях, один император за другим: безумный Калигула, чудовище Нерон, философ Марк Аврелий. Вместо этого Бирд задает другие, зачастую более масштабные и глубокие вопросы: Какой властью обладали императоры?...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 437 с. «Император Рима» - это не типичный хронологический рассказ о римских правителях, один император за другим: безумный Калигула, чудовище Нерон, философ Марк Аврелий. Вместо этого Бирд задает другие, зачастую более масштабные и глубокие вопросы: Какой властью обладали императоры?...
София: Издателство на Отечествения фронт, 1981. — 363 с. В книгата са представени кратки биографични портрети на владетели и пълководци от римската история.
София: Лик, 2001. — 199 с. — ISBN 954-607-412-8. От майчината утроба до завещанието. Брак. Робите. Домакинството и неговите освободени роби. Частен и обществен живот. Работа и свободно време. Имущество. Цензури и утопии. Удоволствия и крайности. Успокоения.
София: Лик, 2001. — 199 с. — ISBN 954-607-412-8. От майчината утроба до завещанието. Брак. Робите. Домакинството и неговите освободени роби. Частен и обществен живот. Работа и свободно време. Имущество. Цензури и утопии. Удоволствия и крайности. Успокоения.
Государственное издательство, 1923. - 443 с.
Предлагаемые "Очерки" возникли из курса лекций, несколько раз читавшегося в Московском университете с 1899 г. Главной целью курса было объяснить социальные условия возникновения римской империи, описать общество, устремившееся в движение империализма, и затем показать, каким образом факт создания колониальной державы в свою очередь...
М.: Государственное издательство, 1923. - 434 с.
Предлагаемые "Очерки" возникли из курса лекций, несколько раз читавшегося в Московском университете с 1899 г. Главной целью курса было объяснить социальные условия возникновения римской империи, описать общество, устремившееся в движение империализма, и затем показать, каким образом факт создания колониальной державы в свою...
София: Университетско издателство Св. Климент Охридски, 2015. — 418 с. Монографията представлява опит за обобщено преставяне и анализ на информацията за култовите обекти в Тракия. Акцентът пада върху многобройните селски светилища, но те не изчерпват темата на книгата. В изложението е проследено развитието на култовите места от началото на римската епоха (средата на I в.) до...
СПб.: Типография М. М. Стасюлевича, 1899. — XXIII, 651 с.
Книга представляет собой труды по истории римского землевладения, средневековых культуры и быта.
Пер. В. Кайдалова. — Москва: Центрполиграф, 2021. — 446 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-9524-5167-4. Уильям Стернс Дэвис, американский просветитель, историк, профессор Университета Миннесоты, посвятил свою книгу Древнему Риму в ту пору, когда этот великий город достиг вершины своего могущества. Опираясь на сведения, почерпнутые у Горация, Сенеки, Петрония, Ювенала,...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2020. — 492 с. — (Новая античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN: 978-5-906823-36-6. Ф.Ф.Зелинский - выдающийся русский ученый и популяризатор классического наследия, профессор в Санкт-Петербурге (1887-1920). в Варшаве (1921-1935), член многих Академий наук (Баварской. Британской, Парижской и пр.), почетный доктор Оксфорда, Афин, автор более 800 работ на...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2020. — 492 с. — (Новая античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN: 978-5-906823-36-6. Ф.Ф.Зелинский - выдающийся русский ученый и популяризатор классического наследия, профессор в Санкт-Петербурге (1887-1920). в Варшаве (1921-1935), член многих Академий наук (Баварской. Британской, Парижской и пр.), почетный доктор Оксфорда, Афин, автор более 800 работ на...
Пер., комм., указ. Н.Н. Болгова. — Белгород: Издательство Белгородского государственного университета, 2010. — 344 с.
Публикуется первый в отечественной науке полный перевод на русский язык исторического сочинения позднеантичного автора Зосима, комита и экс-адвоката фиска в Константинополе в конце V в. В шести книгах "Новой истории" излагаются события от установления Римской...
Монография. — М.: Вузовская книга, 2012. — 176 с. Государство может использовать искусство в своих целях. Государство может оказывать искусству поддержку и покровительство. Художественные нормы могут становиться правовыми, искусство – формой политики, а политика – формой искусства. Деятели искусства могут быть презираемы, а могут входить в элиту общества. Архетипы этих...
М.: Иностранная литература, 1954. — 457 стр.
Описание: Из Предисловия:
"Неоспоримые достоинства работы - привлечение огромного числа источников и обширной литературы, сведение воедино серьезного и обильного фактического материала, ясность и простота изложения - все это делает ее особо ценной для читателя. Книга Луццатто - не единственная работа по экономической истории Италии....
М.: Наука, 2001. — 412 с. — ISBN: 5-02-026815-1.
Вниманию читателей предлагается книга одного из выдающихся исследователей античности в отечественной и мировой науке Михаила Ивановича Ростовцева (1870-1952), крупнейшего специалиста в области экономики эллинистическо-римского периода, деятельность которого была связана как с Петербургской alma mater, так и со многими...
М: Наука, 2001. — 412 с. ISBN: 5-02-026815-1. Вниманию читателей предлагается книга одного из выдающихся исследователей античности в отечественной и мировой науке Михаила Ивановича Ростовцева (1870-1952), крупнейшего специалиста в области экономики эллинистическо-римского периода, деятельность которого была связана как с Петербургской alma mater, так и со многими университетами...
Москва.: Наука, 2001. — 412 с. Вниманию читателей предлагается книга одного из выдающихся исследователей античности в отечественной и мировой науке Михаила Ивановича Ростовцева (1870-1952), крупнейшего специалиста в области экономики эллинистическо-римского периода, деятельность которого была связана как с Петербургской alma mater, так и со многими университетами Европы и...
СПб.: Наука, 2000. — 400 с. Вниманию читателей предлагается книга одного из выдающихся исследователей античности в отечественной и мировой науке Михаила Ивановича Ростовцева (1870-1952), крупнейшего специалиста в области экономики эллинистическо-римского периода, деятельность которого была связана как с Петербургской alma mater, так и со многими университетами Европы и Америки. На...
СПб.: Наука, 2000. — 400 с. — ISBN: 5-02-026813-5. Вниманию читателей предлагается книга одного из выдающихся исследователей античности в отечественной и мировой науке Михаила Ивановича Ростовцева (1870-1952), крупнейшего специалиста в области экономики эллинистическо-римского периода, деятельность которого была связана как с Петербургской alma mater, так и со многими...
СПб.: Наука, 2000. — 400 с. — ISBN: 5-02-026813-5.
Вниманию читателей предлагается книга одного из выдающихся исследователей античности в отечественной и мировой науке Михаила Ивановича Ростовцева (1870-1952), крупнейшего специалиста в области экономики эллинистическо-римского периода, деятельность которого была связана как с Петербургской alma mater, так и со многими...
СПб.: Наука, 2001. — 412 с. — ISBN: 5-02-026815-1. Вниманию читателей предлагается книга одного из выдающихся исследователей античности в отечественной и мировой науке Михаила Ивановича Ростовцева (1870-1952), крупнейшего специалиста в области экономики эллинистическо-римского периода, деятельность которого была связана как с Петербургской alma mater, так и со многими...
С. -Петербург, 1900. — 22 с.
Язык: Русский дореформенный
Ростовцев М. И. Римскіе гарнизоны на Таврическомъ полуострове и Ай-Тодорская крепость / Римские гарнизоны на Таврическом полуострове и Ай-Тодорская крепость
Небольшой очерк патриарха российского антиковедения.
Велико Търново: Faber, 2021. — 240 с. — ISBN 978-619-00-1245-0. Съвременната дунавска граница на България по различно време в периода от началото на І в. до последната четвърт на VII в. е съставлявала интегрална част от северната граница на Римската империя – т. нар. Дунавски лимес. Въпреки значителните разминавания със свидетелствата на античната писмена и епиграфска традиция,...
М.: Издательство Московского университета, 1979. — 462 с., 244 илл. — (Университетская библиотека).
Книга о людях Римской империи дополняет курс истории древнего Рима, античной литературы и искусства.
Тема этой книги — люди императорского Рима, как они выглядели и что собой представляли: римский скульптурный портрет дан в соединении с тем повествовательным материалом, который...
Ростов-на-Дону: Феникс, 1998. — 352 с. — (Исторические силуэты)
Тема этой книги — люди императорского Рима, как они выглядели и что собой представляли: римский скульптурный портрет дан в соединении с тем повествовательным материалом, который содержится в произведениях античных писателей и в надписях; таким образом, искусство скульптуры и искусство слова взаимно дополняют друг...
Ростов н/Д: Феникс, 1998. — 352 с.
Тема этой книги - люди императорского Рима, как они выглядели и что собой представляли: римский скульптурный портрет дан в соединении с тем повествовательным материалом, который содержится в произведениях античных писателей и в надписях; таким образом, искусство скульптуры и искусство слова взаимно дополняют друг друга. Римский скульптурный...
Изд. 2-е, испр. и доп. — Смоленск: Инга, 1995. — 416 с. — ISBN: 5-87993-0017. Отсканированные страницы + слой распознанного текста. Тема этой книги - люди императорского Рима, как они выглядели и что собой представляли: римский скульптурный портрет дан в соединении с тем повествовательным материалом, который содержится в произведениях античных писателей и в надписях; таким...
Издание второе, исправленное и дополненное — Смоленск: Инга, 1995. — 416 с. — ISBN: 5-87993-0017 Книга о людях Римской империи дополняет курс истории древнего Рима, античной литературы и искусства. Тема этой книги — люди императорского Рима, как они выглядели и что собой представляли: римский скульптурный портрет дан в соединении с тем повествовательным материалом, который...
М.: Издательство Московского университета, 1979. — 462 с., 244 илл. — (Университетская библиотека).
Книга о людях Римской империи дополняет курс истории древнего Рима, античной литературы и искусства.
Тема этой книги — люди императорского Рима, как они выглядели и что собой представляли: римский скульптурный портрет дан в соединении с тем повествовательным материалом, который...
М.: Изд-во МГУ, 1990. — 366 с. ISBN: 5-211-01936-9 Книга о людях Римской империи дополняет курс истории Древнего Рима, античной литературы и искусства. Для широкого круга читателей. Содержание От автора Введение Простые люди императорского рима Императоры и их близкие Юлий Цезарь. — Октавиан Август. — Октавия Младшая. — Агриппа. — Юлия Старшая. — Агриппа Постум. — Ливия. —...
М.: АСТ, 2016. — 512 с. — (Cтраны, города и люди). — ISBN: 978-5-17-091449-4. Супруги древнеримских императоров, дочери, матери, сестры – их имена, многие из которых стали нарицательными, овеяны для нас легендами, иногда красивыми, порой – скандальными, а порой и просто пугающими. Образами римских царственных красавиц пестрят исторические романы, фильмы и сериалы – и каждый...
София: Академично издателство Проф. Марин Дринов, 1997. — 415 с. — ISBN 954-430-492-4. В книгата са представени биографиите на римските императори и техните роднини от времето на Юлий Цезар до времето на последният император на Западната Римска империя, Ромул Августул.
София: Академично издателство Проф. Марин Дринов, 1997. — 415 с. — ISBN 954-430-492-4. В книгата са представени биографиите на римските императори и техните роднини от времето на Юлий Цезар до времето на последният император на Западната Римска империя, Ромул Августул.
М.: Красанд, 2011. — 224 с. (Академия фундаментальных исследований: история). — ISBN 978-5-396-00295-1 Вниманию читателей предлагается один из главных трудов выдающегося французского историка Н. Д. Фюстель де Куланжа (1830-1889), посвященный исследованию римского института колоната и происхождению феодализма. Автор называет колонат одним из главных звеньев, объединяющих римский...
Пер. с фр. И. М. Гревса. Под ред. и с предисл. И. М. Гревса. Изд. 2-е. – М.: Красанд, 2011. – 221 с. – (Академия фундаментальных исследований: история). ISBN 978-5-396-00295-1 Вниманию читателей предлагается один из главных трудов выдающегося французского историка Н. Д. Фюстель де Куланжа (1830–1889), посвящённый исследованию римского института колоната и происхождению...
София: Unicart, 2016. — 360 с. Увод Паметниците проговарят. Епиграфски, литературни и нумизматични данни за дейността на римските императори в Тракия Как са пътували императорите? Образът на римския и ранновизантийски император Октавиан Август и завладяването на тракийските земи Нерон и военният път през Хемус Веспасиан - военната кариера на един император започнала в Мизия...
СПб.: Изд-во РГПУ им. А. И. Герцена, 2018. — 464 с., ил. — (Историческая библиотека). В двухтомном труде Ю. Б. Циркина империя рассматривается и как период древней истории Рима, и как тип государства, политическая система, чьи характеристики до сих пор составляют предмет споров. В первом томе исследована эволюция политического устройства Древнего Рима от крушения республики до...
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В богатой литературе, посвященной истории римской культуры в ее различных аспектах, мы почти не встречаем исследований, затрагивающих идеологию широких масс — свободной трудящейся бедноты, отпущенников, рабов — в период Римской империи. Лишь попутно иногда приводятся некоторые ставшие общепринятыми положения, справедливость которых, как правило, не...
М.: АН СССР, 1961. — 324 с.
В богатой литературе, посвященной истории римской культуры в ее различных аспектах, мы почти не встречаем исследований, затрагивающих идеологию широких масс — свободной трудящейся бедноты, отпущенников, рабов — в период Римской империи. Лишь попутно иногда приводятся некоторые ставшие общепринятыми положения, справедливость которых, как правило, не...
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Как...
М.: Харвест, АСТ, 2014. – 512 с.
Современная история и культура западных стран тесно связана с Римской империей. Римляне оставили нам в наследство искусство мостить дороги и строить освещаемые туннели, фонтаны и канализацию, античную мифологию и праздничные церемонии, римское право, ораторское искусство и латынь, язык ученых и богословов с древних времен и до наших дней.
Как...
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