Milano: Mondadori, 2012. — ISBN: 8804613923. Questo è un libro di storia e d'amore. Ci fa immergere in un mondo lontano e affascinante, condotti dal filo della nostra curiosità. Cerca di rispondere alle domande più frequenti e insolite sull'amore e il sesso al tempo dei romani. "Amore e sesso nell'antica Roma" unisce il piacere di lettura di un romanzo all'accuratezza di un...
Routledge, 1994. — 244 p. Roland Auguet examines the Roman taste for blood and considers what the games, that strange combination of Cruelty and Civilization, reveal about the Roman mentality. He shows how the great spectacles became a part of city life - they were awaited with impatience, everyone discussed them, some applauded the action in the arena, while others booed...
Da Capo Press, 2008. — 235 p. Condemned and yet feared by emperors, almost certain to be slaughtered and yet adored by the masses, the gladiator was the superstar of his day. His existence was invariably short and violent, improved only faintly by the prospect of honor, wealth, and public attention. Yet men gave up their freedom to become gladiators, noblewomen gave up their...
BBC Books, 2007. — 448 p. Ancient Rome is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Focusing on six turning points in Roman history, Simon Baker's absorbing narrative charts the rise and fall of a political machine unmatched in its brutality, genius, and lust for power. From the conquest of the Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC to the destruction of the empire...
Liveright, 2015. — 608 p. — ISBN10: 0871404230 ISBN13: 978-0871404237. A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil...
Liveright, 2015. — 608 p. A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an...
University of California Press, 2011. — 281 p. This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the late first century b.c.e. to the...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 318 p. Trade and Taboo addresses the legal, literary, social, and institutional creation of disrepute in ancient Roman society. Tracking the shifting application of stigmas of disrepute between the Republic and Late Antiquity, it follows particular groups of professionals—funeral workers, criers, tanners, mint workers, and even...
ABC-CLIO, 2020. — 238 p. This book shares little-known facts from and excerpts of primary source documents to correct popular misconceptions about Ancient Rome and to show how those misconceptions became widespread. Roman personalities and history have always had a larger-than-life profile in American popular culture, but most people think of this ancient civilization as merely...
Carocci, 2010. — 112 p. La storia romana è molto complessa e ricca di avvenimenti. Attraverso una selezione delle principali parole chiave che hanno definito la società romana, il testo vuole andare oltre la cronologia dei singoli eventi per evidenziare i concetti e la grammatica che definiscono la società romana antica, cioè le strutture di lunga durata e la dialettica...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 224 p. Examines the conduct of Roman long-distance trade in its social and legal context. - Employs a robust and innovative methodology drawing on maritime archaeological remains and textual, epigraphic and papyrological sources - Explores the relationship between Roman long-distance trade and the development of legal institutions - Includes...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. — 46 p. — ISBN-13 978-1724273666. In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great was on top of the world. Never a man to sit on his hands or rest upon his laurels, Alexander began planning his future campaigns, which may have included attempts to subdue the Arabian Peninsula or make another incursion into India. But fate had other plans for...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 312 p. The economy of ancient Rome, with its long-range trade, widespread moneylending, and companies of government contractors, was surprisingly modern. Yet Romans also exchanged goods and services within a traditional system of gifts and favors, which sustained the supportive relationships necessary for survival in the absence of extensive...
Armand Colin, 2012. — 312 p. Cet ouvrage étudie les différents aspects de l'armée Romaine (militaire, politique, administratif, économique et culturel) dans la longue durée. Il montre combien l'armée romaine était un univers à part entière dont l’implication dans la vie politique de l'Empire était croissante. Une attention particulière est prêtée au rôle des armées dans les...
Routledge, 2014. — 263 p. Spain in Roman times bristled with danger. The parched landscape of the Spanish interior was often as deadly as the Celts and the Iberians, people famed for their ferocity and accustomed to grisly human sacrifice. Little wonder that it took Roman armies more than two centuries to subdue the Iberian peninsula. In "Roman Spain", Leonard Curchin traces...
Turner Books, 2023. — 259 p. The Great Roman Empire was no stranger to rebellions, but who were the rebels behind these lost causes, and what fueled their brazen plights? Despite their many differences, the rebels of the Roman Empire had one thing in common: all were Romans, or one time Roman allies, who attempted to overthrow Roman rule within the bounds of the Roman Empire....
Paris, 2011. — 513 p. " Je propose d'évoquer ce qui me touche, m'étonne ou m'enchante dans l'Antiquité romaine. J'ai essayé, à partir des réalités pittoresques et des personnages hauts en couleur, de rendre intelligibles une culture, des splendeurs, des valeurs, des croyances, des comportements, une littérature... sans trop idéaliser, car la Rome antique fut raffinée mais...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 464 p. Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 464 p. Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own...
Abacus, 2024. — 480 p. A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world. Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through the words of Tacitus, Seneca, Martial, and a host of...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 408 p. Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of Roman Italy. This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitants. At the same time the traditional view that the last century of the...
Nomad Press, 2006. — 144 p. Dickinson gives due attention to architecture and engineering triumphs, to be sure, and includes full chapters on technology, the army, and forms of entertainment. But the larger part of the narrative conveys Rome's growth from city-state to regional power to multiethnic empire along with the shift from a fairly small independent people to a...
DK, 2023. — 400 p. Immerse yourself in the history of ancient Rome – from its origins as a small settlement on the Palatine Hill to its peak as an empire reigning over 90 million people, and its tumultuous decline. Covering more than 1,000 years of history, and an empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria, Ancient Rome - The Definitive Visual History by DK reveals in vivid...
Bloomsbury, 2019. — 272 p. The ancient city of Rome was the site of daily activities as well as famous historical events. It was not merely a backdrop, but rather an active part of the experiences of its inhabitants, shaping their actions and infusing them with meaning. During each period in Rome's imperial history, her emperors also used the city as a canvas to be painted on,...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. — 632 p. Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending from northern Britain to the...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 196 p. Gladiators and Beast hunts is a comprehensive survey of arena sports in ancient Rome, focusing upon gladiatorial combat and the beast-hunts (venationes). Whilst numerous books have already been written on arena spectacles in ancient Rome, they generally neglect the venationes, despite the fact that the beast-hunts, in which men were pitted in mortal...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 512 p. Investment in capital, both physical and financial, and innovation in its uses are often considered the linchpin of modern economic growth, while credit and credit markets now seem to determine the wealth - as well as the fate - of nations. Yet was it always thus? The Roman economy was large, complex, and sophisticated, but in terms of...
Routledge, 2014. — 290 p. J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the...
Routledge, 2008. — 400 p. The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation. However, in this compelling new study Neil Faulkner argues that in fact, it was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence. War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were killed or enslaved....
Nowtilus, 2019. — 304 p. Breve historia de la Legión romana es un recorrido apasionante por los campamentos militares romanos y sus habitantes. La obra explica su composición formal, la descripción de los entornos más idóneos donde establecer un contingente militar, los elementos defensivos y ofensivos, los espacios relativos a la administración y gestión de la legión que allí...
Garzanti, 2024. — 352 p. Nati da riti funebri antichissimi in onore degli uomini illustri, i giochi gladiatori si svilupparono come fenomeno di massa in grado di appassionare individui di ogni provenienza sociale. Tra il pubblico in delirio non mancavano senatori e imperatori, né donne dell'alta società disposte a elargire cifre cospicue pur di trascorrere una notte con i...
Routledge, 2021. — 728 p. This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1,400 years of Roman history, from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests. Drawing on a vast array of ancient texts written in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and Arabic, and relying on a...
Routledge, 2023. — 310 p. As it is today, the property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome. Its study demands a deep understanding of Roman society, of the normative frameworks and the notions of wealth, value, identity and status that shaped individual and collective mentalities. This book takes a multisided insight into real estate as the subject of...
Routledge, 2008. — 288 p. The legal situation of the women of ancient Rome was extremely complex, and - since there was no sharp distinction between free woman, freedwoman and slave - the definition of their legal position is often heard. Basing her lively analysis on detailed study of literary and epigraphic material, Jane F. Gardner explores the provisions of the Roman laws...
Mondadori Education, 2011. — 328 p. 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 prime fasi dei regni romano-barbarici e dell’Impero bizantino. La storia politica di Roma viene delineata seguendo la lunga parabola di una città che, dalle lotte per mantenere...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 428 p. Roman Frugality offers the first-ever systematic analysis of the variants of individual and collective self-restraint that shaped ancient Rome throughout its history and had significant repercussions in post-classical times. In particular, it tries to do the complexity of a phenomenon justice that is situated at the interface of ethics...
Cassell & Co., 2000. — 224 p. The Romans built perhaps the greatest empire of all time, forged with an unequaled skill in warfare. Accompany these unparalleled troops from the conquest of Italy thru to world conquest. Watch as defeated armies became allies & future Roman soldiers. Consider the irony of extreme brutality & repression leading to peace & prosperity. All the...
Routledge, 2024. — xviii + 99 p. This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West. With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011. — 366 p. In describing the triangular relationship among the Jews, the Romans and the Greeks, Michael Grant treats one of the most significant themes in world history. Unlike almost all the other subject nations of the Roman empire, the Jews have survived and have maintained a religious and cultural identity that is substantially unchanged. They...
Ulysses Press, 2024. — 558 p. — ISBN: 978-1-64604-733-8 Discover the wild and fascinating true stories of the Roman Empire that are rarely taught in history class with this ultimate collection of notorious emperors, scandalous love affairs, rebellion, and more! Whether you think about the Roman Empire every day or not, the legendary stories and fun facts in this book of ancient...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2018. — 305 p. This work will be comprised in six volumes. According to the plan which I have provisionally laid down, the second volume will cover the period from 104 to 70 B.C., ending with the first consulship of Pompeius and Crassus; the third, the period from 70 to 44 B.C., closing with the death of Caesar; the fourth volume will...
Routledge, 2002. — 384 p. Who's Who in the Roman World is a wide-ranging biographical survey of one of the greatest civilizations in history. Covering a period from the 5th century BC to CE 364, this is an authoritative and hugely enjoyable guide to an era which continues to fascinate today. The figures included come from all walks of Roman life and include some of history's...
Wiley-Blackwell, 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 CE. Featuring original contributions from a wide range of scholars at the forefront of new developments in their...
Routledge, 2014. — 446 p. Nothing is more interesting, in our eyes, than the study to which Professor Homo devotes himself of the causes which determined the long, slow development of Roman political institutions. He shows forcibly that in that constitutional work theory played a small part and only came in late. Among the Greeks, political speculation throve, and created a...
Amber Books, 2015. — 224 p. With their origins as blood rites staged at the funerals of rich aristocrats, gladiatorial combat is one of the defining images of ancient Rome. For more than 600 years, people flocked to arenas to watch these highly trained warriors participate in a blood-soaked spectacle that was part sport, part theatre and part cold-blooded murder. Gladiatorial...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. — eISBN: 978-0-307-70058-2.
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.
Starting on a...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 192 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198777786. In Revaluing Roman Cyprus, Ersin Hussein provides a study of local identity formation in Roman Cyprus addresses its traditional characterisation as a weary, uneventful, and insignificant province and champions it as a rich case study for investigations of the Roman Empire. Hussein collates well-known, overlooked,...
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...
Traduzione di Sabrina Placidi. — Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2013. — 725 p. Roma antica è qualcosa di più che un elenco da mandare a memoria di consoli, guerre, poeti e imperatori, e non è neppure soltanto una serie di versioni dal latino con cui combattere al liceo, confidando nell’aiuto di un pesante dizionario. La Roma classica è stata tantissime altre cose, nei suoi oltre...
Atlantic Books, 2016. — 416 p. The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us, from our calendar and coins to our language and laws, but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of this book which tells the remarkable, and often surprising, story of the Romans and the most enduring empire in history. Fusing a...
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...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 320 p. The Material Life of Roman Slaves is a major contribution to scholarly debates on the archaeology of Roman slavery. Rather than regarding slaves as irretrievable in archaeological remains, the book takes the archaeological record as a key form of evidence for reconstructing slaves' lives and experiences. Interweaving literature, law,...
Pen and Sword Historyq 2025. — 272 p. Explores Gallia Narbonensis' strategic importance, governance, and cultural legacy in the Roman Empire, blending history and travel. According to Pliny (admittedly a native of the province), Gallia Narbonensis was 'by the cultivation of its soil, the manners and civilization of its inhabitants and the extent of its wealth, surpassed by no...
St. Martin’s Press, 2023. — 438 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-79240-2 In 66 b.c., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia, a road stretching from Rome to Brindisi. To gain popularity with Roman citizens along the way, he borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. He eventually achieved greatness in Rome and the...
Reckless Books, 2013. — 362 p. — ISBN 1481137980. 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...
University of Michigan Press, 2017. — 232 p. The essays composing Ancient Law, Ancient Society examine the law in classical antiquity both as a product of the society in which it developed and as one of the most important forces shaping that society. Contributors to this volume consider the law via innovative methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives - in...
Akademie Verlag, 2014. — 279 S. Herrschaftsstrukturen und Herrschaftspraxis III. Akten der Tagung in Zürich 19.-20.10.2012 In the Roman Empire, the construction of roads, harbors, and aqueducts created an intersection of imperial and local interests that had political, administrative, and economic dimensions. The articles in this volume examine Roman administrative practice in...
University of California Press, 1995. — 172 p. Michael Koortbojian brings a novel approach to his study of the role of Greek mythology in Roman funerary art. He looks at two myths Aphrodite and Adonis and Selene and Endymion not only with respect to their appearance on Roman sarcophagi, but also with regard to the myths' significance in the greater fabric of Roman life. Moving...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 216 p. Insularity – the state or condition of being an island – has played a key role in shaping the identities of populations inhabiting islands of the Mediterranean. As entities surrounded by water and usually possessing different landscapes and ecosystems from those of the mainland, islands allow for the potential to study both the land and the sea....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 712 p. Through roughly 160 alphabetically arranged reference entries, this book surveys the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome. Ancient Rome was one of the great civilizations of antiquity. Honoring the contributions of their cultural forebearers-who included Etruscans, Asians, and Egyptians as well as Greeks-Roman artists,...
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...
Running Press, 2010. — 578 p. The great events of Roman history are represented here, from the Battle of Mylae to the triumph of the Barbarians, and Rome’s social, cultural, and religious life in all its sophistication, luxury, and depravity. Using memoirs, letters, and official reports, inscriptions, and household accounts, this new collection draws from life sketches of the...
Yesterday's Classics Books, 2006. — 612 p. A vivid account of the complete story of Ancient Rome from the earliest times to the death of Augustus, retold for students, chronicling the birth of a city and its growth through storm and struggle to become a great world empire. Gives short accounts of battles and campaigns, and of the men who expanded the borders of the Roman empire to...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. — 222 p. This sourcebook includes a rich and accessible selection of Roman original sources in translation ranging from the Etruscan period through Republican and Imperial Rome to the late Empire and the coming of Christianity. From Roman goddesses to mortal women, imperial women to slaves and prostitutes, the volume brings new perspectives to the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 368 p. Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World presents fourteen chapters from an interdisciplinary group of Roman numismatists, historians, and archaeologists, discussing coin hoarding in the Roman Empire from c. 30 BC to AD 400. The book illustrates the range of research themes being addressed by those connected with the Coin Hoards of the...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2007. — 256 p. Con un estilo que tiende más a la narrativa ágil que al tono grave del ensayo, Daniel P. Mannix nos mete de lleno en los ludi, escuelas en las que se enseñaba a prisioneros de guerra, fugitivos o delincuentes, las más sofisticadas artes de matar, para conseguir la gloria o la muerte. Pero no sólo se queda ahí sino que el autor también...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. — 426 p. - Draws on archaeology, art history, literary criticism, and continental philosophy - Emphasises individual agency and subjectivity in the study of Roman labor - Offers frameworks for thinking comparatively between many different kinds of work This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual...
Chartwell Books, 2005. — 240 p. The Age of the Gladiators explores many savage spectacles of Ancient Rome, many of which have become proverbial for their cruelty, bloodlust and glory. From Gladiator fights in grand amphitheaters to chariot racing at the Circus Maximus, Romans had their pick of extreme spectator sports. Rupert Matthews explores the development of these customs,...
2nd printing with a new preface by the author. — Princeton University Press, 2013. — 376 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...
Thames & Hudson, 2023. — 304 p. A vibrant portrait of a lost world, A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives reveals the mightiest civilization of antiquity through the eyes of one hundred of its citizens. The book gives a voice not just to Rome’s most famous generals and rulers, such as Caesar and Caligula, but also to its builders, sculptors, poets, historians, gladiators,...
Thames and Hudson, 2008. — 304 p. One hundred biographies reveal the mightiest civilization of the ancient world through the lives of its citizens. At its peak Rome's empire stretched across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, yet it started as a primitive encampment above a riverside marsh. This book spans the great chronological and geographical sweep of the Roman age and...
Michael O’Mara Books, 2017. — 258 p. Walk a day in a Roman's sandals. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities — one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide, historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to the people who lived and worked there. In each hour of the...
Thames and Hudson, 2009. — 296 p. This engrossing book looks at the growth and eventual demise of Rome from the viewpoint of the peoples who fought against it. Here is the reality behind such legends as Spartacus the gladiator, as well as the thrilling tales of Hannibal, the great Boudicca, the rebel leader and Mithridates, the connoisseur of poisons, among many others. Some...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 304 p. — (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). Rome's Capitoline Hill was the smallest of the Seven Hills of Rome. Yet in the long history of the Roman state it was the empire's holy mountain. The hill was the setting of many of Rome's most beloved stories, involving Aeneas, Romulus, Tarpeia, and Manlius. It also held significant monuments,...
Primus in Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2014. — 144 s. Was haben die Römer sich dabei gedacht, als sie zu Beginn des 2. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. ihre Welt buchstäblich mit Brettern vernagelten und ihr Weltreich, mit Türmen, Palisaden, Gräben und Mauern umfriedeten? War es die Angst vor den wilden Barbarenhorden, eine Beschäftigungstherapie für gelangweilte Soldaten in...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 378 p. - First volume of its kind devoted to Latinization - Contains comprehensive and interdisciplinary contributions from a set of leading international experts - Presents major advances in understanding life and languages in the Roman West - Questions assumptions about presumed factors in Latinization - This is an open access title available...
Ivy Press, 2014. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78240-163-6 You know that Rome wasn’t built in a day, but just how did a cluster of small hilltop villages expand to become one of the greatest empires in history? Why did Romulus kill his brother Remus? How was a legion organized? Did people really speak Latin? What entertainment could you see at the Colosseum? And what was daily life like...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2012. — 432 p. En esta obra, Miguel Ángel Novillo López, emprende la necesaria labor de resumir los quince siglos de la existencia de la cultura romana con fin de crear una obra altamente didáctica, amena y rigurosa. Usando infinidad de mapas, gráficos, fotografías y árboles genealógicos, el libro nos abre, en un estilo que se sitúa entre la complejidad del...
Routledge, 2008. — 192 p. 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 artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing,...
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...
Routledge, 2008. — 407 p. This Sourcebook contains a comprehensive collection of sources on the topic of the social history of the Roman world during the late Republic and the first two centuries CE. Designed to form the basis for courses in Roman social history, this excellent resource covers original translations from sources such as inscriptions, papyri, and legal texts....
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2008. — 288 p. Desde la creación de la ciudad a orillas del Tíber hasta la muerte de Julio César, la historia de Roma está plagada de leyendas, de literatura y de mitología. Breve Historia de la Antigua Roma. Monarquía y República nos ayudará a descubrir la verdad escondida de estas personalidades, el libro nos narra esta primera etapa de una cultura que se...
Combined Books, 1997. — 165 p. An examination of the Roman armies of the late Republic and early Empire which looks at the logistical and operational techniques which made the armies' successes possible. First published in 1994. John Peddie’s The Roman War Machine is a well researched and written account of the reasons behind the Roman military’s battlefield success during the...
Greenwood, 2022. — 404 p. Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome is an invaluable introduction to the lives of women in the late Roman Republic and first three centuries of the Roman Empire. Arranged chronologically and thematically, it examines how Roman women were born, educated, married, and active in economic, social, public, and religious life, as well as how they were...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 360 p. Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their homes to demonstrate control or social hierarchy? To answer these questions, Hannah Platts draws on a...
Profile Books, 2019. — 448 p. In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local republic to vast and powerful empire. At the beginning of the three dramatic centuries that make up this book's narrative, Rome had no emperor and limited global influence; by the...
Presses de l'Université Saint-Louis, 2019. — 360 p. La tradition qui va d'Évandre à Ancus Marcius est analysée en profondeur sous quatre aspects: historicité, composition, évolution, signification. Préoccupé par les problèmes de méthode et travaillant dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire (linguistique, religion, ethnologie, archéologie...), l'auteur remet en question beaucoup...
Smashwords Edition, 2014. — 101 p. If you believe the texts that survive to tell the story of Ancient Rome, then that fascinating civilisation was pretty much all about the men. Men went to war, men played politics, and men stabbed each other in the course of said politics. Even the great love stories of the era often turn out to be all about what the men saw, desired and...
Routledge, 2021. — 182 p. This volume uses the travels of Roman governors to explore how authority was defined in and by the public places of Greek cities. By demonstrating that the places where imperial officials and local notables met were integral to the strategies by which they communicated with one another, Greek Cities and Roman Governors sheds new light on the...
Nowtilus, 2011. — 256 p. No estaba en los planes de Roma conquistar Iberia para someterla, el objetivo principal era cortar la retaguardia de uno de sus mayores enemigos: Aníbal el cartaginés. Para ello los romanos tuvieron que vencer a no pocos enemigos. Breve Historia de Hispania recrea con todas sus luces y sus sombras los momentos más relevantes de la ocupación romana de la...
University of Michigan Press, 2024. — 272 p. Roman merchants, artisans, and service providers faced substantial prejudice. Contemporary authors labeled them greedy, while the Roman on the street accused merchants of lying and cheating. Legally and socially, merchants were kept at arm’s length from respectable society. Yet merchants were common figures in daily life, populating...
Collège de France, 2013. — 30 p. By opposing sectarian discourses with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology, in short, the entire arsenal of science and reason, the history of religions of the past enables us to deflate modern myths, and not only those of others but also our own. It allows us to identify the projection, in the imaginary past, of the...
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...
Princeton University Press, 2018. This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history. Walter Scheidel brings together leading historians, anthropologists, and geneticists at the cutting edge of their fields, who explore novel types of evidence that enable us to...
7th Edition. — Routledge, 2019. — 782 p. A History of the Roman People offers students a comprehensive, up-to-date, readable introduction to the whole span of Roman history. Richly illustrated, this fully updated volume takes readers through the mists of Roman prehistory and a survey of the peoples of pre-Roman Italy to a balanced, thoughtful account of the complexities of the...
Sleeping Bear Press, 2010. — 44 p. According to Roman legend, what famous twins were raised by a she-wolf? Who wrote the epic poem, The Aeneaid? What famous leader brought law and stability, yet was stabbed to death by a group of senators? Life in ancient Rome was certainly not for the faint of heart! In G is for Gladiator: An Ancient Rome Alphabet, readers are given an A-Z...
Amberley Publishing, 2013. — 304 p. When the Romans built the bath and temple complex of Bath in the late first century AD they called the place Aquae Sulis, the waters of Sulis, a British deity who was equated with the Roman godess Minerva. it was unlike any other town in Roman Britain, it had no specific town status, compared to nearby Cirencester, which was a chartered town set...
Abrams: 2021. — ISBN 978-164700-232-9, 978-141975-305-3. An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was...
Oneworld Publications, 2020. — 352 p. In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common – murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city; Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theatre, Claudius was poisoned at dinner and Galba was beheaded in the forum. In one fifty-year period, twenty-six emperors were murdered. But what did...
Oneworld Publications, 2023. — 416 p. We kick off with Romulus murdering his brother, go on to Brutus overthrowing Tarquin, bounce through an appallingly tedious list of battles and generals and consuls, before emerging into the political stab-fest of the late Republic. After ‘Et tu, Brute?’, it runs through all the emperors, occasionally nodding to a wife or mother to show how...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 208 p. “Are you not entertained?” shouts Russell Crowe, playing the part of General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the Oscar winning 2000 film Gladiator. The crowd, having witnessed Maximus defeating several gladiators, cheer in response. Film goers too were indeed entertained with the film grossing nearly half a billion dollars. This book covers the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 256 p. This book assesses a narrow but vital – and so far understudied – part of Roman women's lives: puberty, preparation for pregnancy, pregnancy and childbirth. Bringing together for the first time the material and textual sources for this key life stage, it describes the scientific, educational, medical and emotional aspects of the journey...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 395 p. André 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...
Profile Books, 2019. — 320 p. Ancient Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a scream in an alley. But was it as bad as all that? Join the historian Jerry Toner on a detective's hunt to discover the extent of Rome's crimes. From the sexual...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 156 p. Modern risk studies have viewed the inhabitants of the ancient world as being both dominated by fate and exposed to fewer risks, but this very readable and groundbreaking new book challenges these views. It shows that the Romans inhabited a world full of danger and also that they not only understood uncertainty but employed a variety...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 430 p. — ISBN-10 3031062809. — ISBN-13 978-3031062803. - Focuses on those features of the Roman economy that have remained largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship - Offers a more complete and balanced view of the Roman economic system - Analyses divergent views on emblematic economic spheres in the Roman economy This book focuses on those...
Wiley-Blackwell. 2019. — 664 p. With contributions from noted authorities in the field, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt offers a comprehensive resource that covers almost 1000 years of Egyptian history, starting with the liberation of Egypt from Persian rule by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and ending in AD 642, when Arab rule started in the Nile country. The...
Nomad Press, 2008. — 96 p. What was it like to live in ancient Rome? Are ancient Roman roads still used today? What did ancient Romans wear and eat and do for fun? Ancient Civilizations: Romans! With 25 Social Children Studies Projects for Kids investigates the fascinating civilization of ancient Rome through 25 hands-on projects, games, essential questions, links to online...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. — 301 p. The study is a fresh interpretation of the Roman foundation myth and one of the most important Roman festivals – the Lupercalia, an annual celebration of youth and sexuality by Roman men and women. Written with clarity and force the book spans the whole of Roman history and takes the Lupercalia back to its Indo-European roots by presenting...
Routledge, 2002. — 872 p. When originally published in 1987, this book was hailed as a landmark in the study of the Roman World. Now back in print with a new preface by the author, it is still the most comprehensive survey of the Roman World available. Ranging from the founding of Rome in the eighth century BC, and throughout the Empire and beyond this book will continue to be an...
Enthralling History. — 2021. — 253 p. Are you intrigued by ancient Rome’s myths, culture, and unimaginable rise to power? If so, this powerful history of ancient Rome will draw you in and keep you turning pages! Rome’s astonishing history now spans 28 centuries, growing from obscurity into a massive empire stretching from Britain to the Middle East and south to Africa. Rome’s...
London: Atlantic Books, 2019. — 192 p. — (Histories of the Unexpected). — ISBN: 978-1-786497-73-5. Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Romans have been understood in a straightforward way but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 368 p. - Offers the first book-length treatment of the application of formal modelling and simulation to the study of the Roman economy - Presents case studies in computational Roman Studies in non-technical language - Suggests innovative approaches to studying ancient economies - Addresses topics such as maritime travel, land transport,...
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...
2nd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 504 p. Rome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within Italy, then around the Mediterranean world and finally, at breakneck speed, deep into Europe, out to the Atlantic, along the edge of the Sahara and down the Red Sea. But there had...
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...
Пер. с англ. Ламанова Е. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2016. — 319 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5209-1. Профессор Оксфордского университета, член Британской академии, автор ряда исследований по древней истории Джон Перси Бэлсдон посвятил свою книгу женщинам Древнего Рима. История римских женщин – это многовековая история представительниц всех слоев римского общества. Женщины никогда не...
Москва: Эксмо, 2017. — 624 с. — (100 главных книг). — ISBN: 978-5-699-86798-1. Возрастные ограничения 16+ . Михаил Леонович Гаспаров - филолог-классик, литературовед, историк античной литературы и русской поэзии, переводчик античной, средневековой и новой поэзии и прозы. "Занимательная Греция. Рассказы о древнегреческой культуре" - своеобразная энциклопедия древнегреческой...
М.: АСТ. Транзиткнига, 2006. — 542 с. — (Историческая библиотека) — ISBN: 978-5-17-035706-2. Книга посвящена истории Рима и его пятнадцати великим полководцам, охватывает период от начала Второй Пунической войны до эпохи Юстиниана, когда Западная римская империя уже перестала существовать. Спицион Африканский и Гай Марий, Помпей Великий и Цезарь, Тит и Траян, Юлиан и Велизарий…...
Минск: Изд-во БГУ им. В.И.Ленина, 1972. — 272 c. Используя широкий круг литературных, археологических и других источников, автор книги анализирует причины распада первобытнообщинного строя и образования римского государства. Дается характеристика политической системы, сложившейся в римском государстве, а также освещается история сословноклассовой борьбы в период покорения Римом...
Монография. Пер. О. Шмелевой. — М.: Эксмо, 2008. — 296 с.: ил. — (Военная история человечества). — ISBN: 978-5-699-24680-9. Основные этапы военной истории Древнего Рима от Ромула до падения Империи. Величайшие войны и грандиозные сражения Сципиона, Ганнибала, Цезаря и Аттилы. Подробнейшее описание методов подготовки и тактики римских легионеров, германцев, кельтов, парфян и...
М. : РГГУ, 2004. — 270 с. — ISBN 5-7281-0515—7. Книга посвящена теме, которая не была предметом специального интереса в отечественной историографии, а в зарубежной - при кажущемся обилии работ, посвященных Симмаху и Кассиодору, - не решалась на междисциплинарном уровне, предложенном автором. В монографии используются достижения последних десятилетий, сделанные мировой...
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