Roman History & Culture

Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities. This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the important phenomenon of benefaction and public patronage in Roman Italy...

In A History of Earliest Italy, first published in 1984, Professor Pallottino illumines the wide variety of peoples, languages, and traditions of culture and trade that constituted the pre-Roman Italic world. In telling the story of the early stages of the eternal dialogue between national vocation ..

First published in 1904, this volume begins with a short socioeconomic history, followed by an exploration of Roman history from Scipio Aemilianus and the Gracchi brothers until the second election of Marius to the consulship...

A full and detailed transcript of Mommsen's famous lectures - made by two of his students - has been edited to provide an authoritative reconstruction. Includes detailed notes and references, and an introduction by Thomas Wiedemann...

This book breaks new ground in enabling us to visualise the changes in town and countryside brought by Roman military and civilian needs...

This book breaks new ground in enabling us to visualise the changes in town and countryside brought by Roman military and civilian needs...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Adults and Children in the Roman Empire describes a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period, identifying three areas where greater individuality was assigned to children: through political office-holding; through education; and, for Christians, through membership of the Church in..

Adults and Children in the Roman Empire describes a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period, identifying three areas where greater individuality was assigned to children: through political office-holding; through education; and, for Christians, through membership of the Church in..

_x000D_ Aemilius Paullus: Conqueror of Greece, first published in 1988, aims to construct an accurate picture of this reknowned soldier and politician by scrutiny of the main sources – Livy, Plutarch and Polybius (the last of whom worked under the direct patronage of Paullus). The author shows how e..

_x005F_x000D_ Aemilius Paullus: Conqueror of Greece, first published in 1988, aims to construct an accurate picture of this reknowned soldier and politician by scrutiny of the main sources – Livy, Plutarch and Polybius (the last of whom worked under the direct patronage of Paullus). The author shows..

In this second edition, Lynda Garland and Matthew Dillon present an extensive range of material from the early Republic to the death of Augustus. Providing a comprehensive coverage of important documents pertaining to the Roman Republic and the Augustan age, Ancient Rome includes:_x000D_ _x000D_ _x0..