Rome category: 2065 books
by Aurelius Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
"Rome having been stormed and sacked by the Goths under Alaric
their king,[1] the worshippers of false gods, or pagans, as we
commonly call them, made an attempt to attribute this calamity to
the Christian religion, and began to blaspheme the true God with
even more than their wonted bitterness...
Baetica Felix
People and Prosperity in Southern Spain from Caesar to Septimius Severus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Baetica, the present-day region of Andalusia in southern Spain, was the wealthiest province of the Roman Empire. Its society was dynamic and marked by upward social and economic mobility, as the imperial peace allowed the emergence of a substantial middle social and economic stratum. Indeed, so mutually...
Barbarian Tides
The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walter...
Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul
Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the...
by Isabel Lovell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Stories in Stone from the Roman Forum is an interesting description of many of the famous buildings in Rome.
Slavery
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French concept of "liberté, égalité, fraternityé"; and both ideas incarnate a notion...
Pannonia and Upper Moesia (Routledge Revivals)
A History of the Middle Danube Provinces of the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In Pannonia and Upper Moesia, first published1974, András Mócsy surveys the Middle Danube Provinces from the latest pre-Roman Iron Age up to the beginning of the Great Migrations. His primary concern is to develop a general synthesis of the archaeological and historical researches in the Danube...
Reliving Pompeii
The Adventures of an Archaeologist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Reliving Pompeii tells the story of a unique archaeological adventure experienced by an archaeologist at the beginning of her career "forced" by circumstances to move from Rome to Pompeii, where she lived and worked for many years. The author lived in the ancient city of Pompeii and worked...
Gladiator
Fighting for Life, Glory and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
“When everyone had had plenty to eat and drink they called for the gladiators. The moment anyone’s throat was cut, they clapped their hands in pleasure. And it sometimes even turned out that someone had specified in their will that the most beautiful women he had purchased were to fight each other….”...
by John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
The story of Rome's greatest general. As told by one of Britain's greatest story-tellers. Caesar was the most daring and successful of Roman generals, and one of its finest statesman. ‘He performed the greatest constructive task ever achieved by human hands," writes John Buchan...
Dress and the Roman Woman
Self-Presentation and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men.
This engaging book collects and examines...
Medusa's Gaze
The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The Tazza Farnese is one of the most admired objects from classical antiquity. A libation bowl carved from banded agate, it features Medusa's head on its outside and, inside, an assembly of Egyptian gods. For more than two millennia, these radiant figures have mesmerized emperors and artists, popes...
The Romans and their World
A Short Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected scholar and teacher, presents a fascinating and wide-ranging...
by Peter Temin
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
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 Pax Romana were...