Princeton University Press, 2021. — 538 p. Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Jews and Their Roman Rivals shows how the Roman Empire posed a unique challenge to Jewish thinkers such as Philo, Josephus, and the Palestinian rabbis, who both resisted and internalized...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 268 p. A mosquito-infested and swampy plain lying north of the city walls, Rome's Campus Martius, or Field of Mars, was used for much of the period of the Republic as a military training ground and as a site for celebratory rituals and occasional political assemblies. Initially punctuated with temples vowed by victorious generals, during the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. — 668 p. In Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome, Sandra R. Joshel examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the first and second centuries A.D. to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves, and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities. The inscriptions indicate the significance of work-as a source of...
Rosen Education Service, 2010. — 232 p. Echoes of ancient Roman concepts of governance, law, and society still ring throughout the world today. A stranger to neither war nor wealth, ancient Rome was shaped as much by strife as it was by prosperity. The expansion of the Roman Empire was buoyed by this culture s tendency to embrace traditions of its newly assimilated peoples,...
InterVarsity Press, 2019. — 220 p. In first-century Rome, following Jesus comes at a tremendous social cost. An urbane Roman landowner and merchant is intrigued by the Christian faith - but is he willing to give up his status and lifestyle to join the church? Meanwhile his young client, a catechumen in the church at Rome, is beginning to see just how much his newfound faith...
Einaudi, 2018. — 507 p. Pur focalizzandosi principalmente su Roma, "Pantheon" integra le molte tradizioni religiose riscontrabili in tutta l'area mediterranea, per raccontare la storia di un mutamento epocale, quando da un mondo dove si praticavano rituali religiosi si passò a un mondo dove si appartiene a una religione. Il volume, ampiamente illustrato, sottolinea con...
Translated and with a foreward by Clifford Ando. — University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 200 p. — (First published in French 2013). Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its...
Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1998. — 512 p. Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. The selections, all in fresh English translations prepared by the author, are drawn from a wide array of documents - letters, manuals, recipes,...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 314 p. Under the emperors' rule, the cultural lives of all Rome's subjects were utterly transformed. This book is a study of this process – conventionally termed 'Romanization' - through an investigation of the experience of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire. Beginning with a rejection of the concept of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. — 312 p. In this amazing edition of Ancient Rome, author Paul A. Zoch presents the history and mythology of Rome, from its legendary progenitor Aeneas to the death of the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius in 180 c.e. Zoch guides readers through the military campaigns and political developments that shaped Rome’s rise from a small Italian...
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