History / Ancient / Rome

Year of the Four Emperors

by Kenneth Wellesley

After Nero's notorious reign, the Romans surely deserved a period of peace and tranquility. Instead, during AD69, three emperors were murdered: Galba, just days into the post, Otho and Vitellius. The same year...

Rome and its Frontiers: The Dynamics of Empire

by C R Whittaker

Do the Romans have anything to teach us about the way that they saw the world, and the way they ran their empire? How did they deal with questions of frontiers and migration, so often in the news today?

This...

Banishment in the Later Roman Empire

by Daniel Washburn

This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. It applied...

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

by Tom Holland

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland’s enthralling account...

The Roman Market Economy

by Peter Temin

The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged)

by Edward Gibbon & Hans-Friedrich Mueller

Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller

Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin

Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history...

Julius Caesar

by Bill Yenne & Wesley K. Clark

No ancient ruler inspired more legends than Julius Caesar. Under his leadership, Rome conquered territory throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, reaching the North Sea and conducting the first Roman invasion...

Roman Britain

by David Shotter

This revised edition of the classic text of the period provides both the student and the specialist with an informative account of post-Roman English society.

Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World

by Matthew W Dickie & Matthew W. Dickie

This study is the first to assemble the evidence for the existence of sorcerors in the ancient world; it also addresses the question of their identity and social origins. The resulting investigation takes us...

The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings

by Ronald Mellor

The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III: A.D. 1185 to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453

by Edward Gibbon & Gian Battista Piranesi

"I set out upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immediately dominated by both the story and the style," recalled Winston Churchill. "I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it...

Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Reader

by Paul Allen Miller

A wide variety of texts by the Latin satirists are presented here in a fully loaded resource to provide an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology.

Brimming with notes, commentaries, essays...

The Gladiator: The Secret History Of Rome's Warrior Slaves

by Alan Baker

Take "a lively, voyeuristic glimpse into the ancient world" of the gladiator (Publishers Weekly)

A History of the Roman World: 753 to 146 BC

by H. H. Scullard

With a new foreword by Tim Cornell

'Can anyone be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means and under what kind of polity almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and bought under the...

Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire: The Roman Frontier in the 4th and 5th Centuries

by Rob Collins

There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining...

Dress and the Roman Woman: Self-Presentation and Society

by Kelly Olson

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...

Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook

by Michael Maas

Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new...

Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America

by Cullen Murphy

The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our republic.Today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place. Depending on who’s doing the...

The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire

by Anthony Everitt

From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater...

The Roman Army from Hadrian to Constantine

by Michael Simkins & Ronald Embleton

The year of 122 was the first time a Roman Emperor had set foot in the Province of Britannia since the invasion in AD 43. No doubt he had read many reports concerning the damage caused by marauding tribesmen...