Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire
03 Oct 1994 12:02
A sub-set of classical antiquity as a whole.
Republican constitution. Oldest religious rites. The numina. The lictors and other colleges. Costs and benefits of the empire. Proto-industrialism and proto-capitalism. Architecture. Contacts with Africa, Asia. Perception by its contemporaries and successors.
- Recommended (inadequate):
- Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
- Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- James J. O'Donnell, The Ruin of the Roman Empire
- Tacitus
- The Histories
- The Annals
- To read:
- Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
- Jean Andreau, Banking and Business in the Roman World
- Shadi Bartsch, The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire
- Mary Beard, S.P.Q.R.: A History of Ancient Rome
- Mary T. Boatwright, Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire
- Steele Brand, Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War
- Peter Brown
- John R. Clarke, Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.--A.D. 315
- Anna Collar, Religious Networks in the Roman Empire: The Spread of New Ideas
- Anthony Corbeill, Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome
- Eve D'Ambra, Roman Women
- Janet Delaine, The Baths of Caracalla: A Study in the Design, Construction and Economics of Large-Scale Building in Imperial Rome. [Review in BMCR]
- Suzanne Dixon, The Roman Family
- Stephen L. Dyson, The Creation of the Roman Frontier
- Paul Erdkamp, The Grain Market in the Roman Empire: A Social, Political and Economic Study
- Elaine Fantham, Roman Literary Culture
- Cary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War
- Alain Gowing, Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture
- Erich S. Gruen, Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome ["Gives a compelling account of the assimilation and adaptation of Greek culture by the Romans"]
- L. A. and J. A. Hamey, The Roman Engineers
- Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
- Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
- Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
- Sharon L. James, Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy [Review in BMCR]
- Gordon P. Kelly, A History of Exile in the Roman Republic
- Jason König and Tim Whitmarsh (eds.), Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
- Michael Kulikowski, The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine
- Kathryn Lomas, The Rise of Rome; From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars
- Ramsay MacMullen, Romanization in the Time of Augustus
- Susan P. Mattern, Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate
- David J. Mattingly, Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire: Experiencing the Roman Empire
- Alexander G. McKay, Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World
- Patricia Cox Miller, Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
- Susan Raven, Rome in Africa
- Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff, The Social and Economic History of the Roman EmpireRoyston and Lambert, Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous
- Elizabeth Speller, Following Hadrian: A Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire
- Rabun M. Taylor, The Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process
- Jerry Toner, The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino: Understanding the Roman Games
- Giusto Traina, 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
- Robern Turcan and Antonia Nevill, The Cults of the Roman Empire
- A. A. Vasiliev, History of the Byzantine Empire
- Sister Benedicta Ward, SLG, Harlots of the Desert: A Study of Repentance in Early Monastic sources
- Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
- C. R. Whittaker, Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study
- Greg Woolf, Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul
