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  • Barbarism and Religion, 5: Religionby J. G. A. Pocock

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 78.00

    This volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion examines Gibbon's controversial treatment of the early Christian church. more...

  • Imperialism, Power, and Identityby David J. Mattingly

    Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 46.95

    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 peoples. Imperialism, Power, and Identity boldly challenges this... more...

  • Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman Worldby Ralph W. Mathisen; Danuta Shanzer

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95

    One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world between the fourth and seventh centuries C.E. was the integration of barbarian peoples into the social, cultural, religious, and political milieu of the Mediterranean world. Nowhere in the Roman world could the impact of the barbarians be escaped. The sixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in... more...

  • Agricola and Germanyby Tacitus

    Oxford University Press, UK 1999; US$ 8.99

    Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian, was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian ended `fifteen years of enforced silence'. Agricola is the biography of his late father-in-law and an account of Roman Britain. Germania gives insight into Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans, and is the only surviving... more...

  • The Ruin of the Roman Empireby James J O' Donnell

    Profile 2011; US$ 14.38

    What really marked the end of the Roman Empire? James O'Donnell's magnificent new book takes us back to the sixth century and the last time the Empire could be regarded as a single community. Two figures dominate his narrative – Theodoric the ‘barbarian', whose civilized rule in Italy with his philosopher minister Boethius might... more...

  • Lives of the Caesarsby Suetonius; Catharine Edwards

    OUP Oxford 2000; US$ 8.99

    The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of sources, without much concern for their reliability. His biographies consist the ancestry and career... more...

  • Roman Attitudes Toward the Christiansby John Granger Cook

    Mohr Siebeck 2011; US$ 54.01

    Hauptbeschreibung John Granger Cook investigates the earliest interactions between Roman authorities and Christians. The events in Claudius' time surrounding "Chrestos" and possible Jewish Christians are fascinating but obscure. The persecutions of Nero and Trajan may be crucial for interpreting certain texts of the New Testament, including the Gospel... more...

  • A Companion to Marcus Aureliusby Marcel van Ackeren

    Wiley 2012; US$ 199.95

    A Companion to Marcus Aurelius presents the first comprehensive collection of essays to explore all essential facets relating to contemporary Marcus Aurelius studies. • First collection of its kind to commission new state-of-the-art scholarship on Marcus Aurelius • Features readings that cover all aspects of Marcus Aurelius,... more...

  • The Roman Empireby Robert K. Sherk

    Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 40.00

    This is a collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions and papyri in English translation. more...

  • Encyclopedia of Ancient Romeby Matthew Bunson

    Infobase Publishing 2012; US$ 95.00

    Expanded ed. of: Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire. Rev. ed. c2002. more...