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Barbarism and Religion, 5: Religion
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 78.00This 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 Identity
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 46.95Despite 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 World
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95One 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 Germany
Oxford University Press, UK 1999; US$ 8.99Cornelius 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 Empire
Profile 2011; US$ 14.38What 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 Caesars
OUP Oxford 2000; US$ 8.99The 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 Christians
Mohr Siebeck 2011; US$ 54.01Hauptbeschreibung 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 Aurelius
Wiley 2012; US$ 199.95A 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 Empire
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 40.00This is a collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions and papyri in English translation. more...
Encyclopedia of Ancient Rome
Infobase Publishing 2012; US$ 95.00Expanded ed. of: Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire. Rev. ed. c2002. more...









