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1. Julia Domna

   Syrian Empress

   By Barbara Levick

   Series: Women of the Ancient World

   This book covers Julia’s life, and charts her travels throughout the Empire from Aswan to York during a period of profound upheaval, and seeks the truth about this woman who inspired such extreme and contrasting views, exposing the instability of our sources about her, and characterizing a...

   Published May 9th 2007 by Routledge
2. Vespasian

   By Barbara Levick

   Series: Roman Imperial Biographies

   From a pre-eminent biographer in the field, this well-documented and illustrated biography examines the life and time of the emperor Vespasian and challenges the validity of his perennial good reputation and universally acknowledged achievements. Examining received opinions on Vespasian, Barbara...

   Published June 22nd 2005 by Routledge
3. The Government of the Roman Empire

   A Sourcebook, 2nd Edition

   By Dr Barbara Levick, Barbara Levick

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration of the empire, using the evidence of...

   Published September 6th 2000 by Routledge
4. Tiberius the Politician

   2nd Edition

   By Barbara Levick

   Series: Roman Imperial Biographies

   Tiberius has always been one of the most enigmatic of the Roman emperors. At the same time, his career is uniquely important for the understanding of the Empire's development on the foundations laid by Augustus.Barbara Levick offers a comprehensive and engaging portrait of the life and times of...

   Published August 25th 1999 by Routledge
5. Women in Antiquity: New Assessments

   Edited by Richard Hawley, Barbara Levick, Dr Barbara Levick

   Published October 18th 1995 by Routledge
6. Claudius

   By Barbara Levick

   Series: Roman Imperial Biographies

   Claudius became emperor after the assassination of Caligula, and was deified by his successor Nero in AD 54. Opinions of him have varied greatly over succeeding centuries, but he has mostly been caricatured as a reluctant emperor, hampered by a speech impediment, who preferred reading to...

   Published May 4th 1993 by Routledge