Roman History & Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. The Roman City and its Periphery

   From Rome to Gaul

   By Penelope Goodman

   The first and only monograph available on the subject, The Roman City and its Periphery offers a full and detailed treatment of the little-investigated aspect of Roman urbanism – the phenomenon of suburban development. Presenting archaeological and literary evidence alongside sixty-three plans of...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Traffic and Congestion in the Roman Empire

   By Cornelis van Tilburg

   The first book to ever examine ancient Roman traffic, this well-illustrated volume looks in detail at the construction of Roman road, and studies the myriad of road users of the Roman Empire: civilians, wagons and animals, the cursus publicus, commercial use and the army. Through this examination,...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Time in Roman Religion

   One Thousand Years of Religious History

   By Gary Forsythe

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

   Religion is a major subfield of ancient history and classical studies, and Roman religion in particular is usually studied today by experts in two rather distinct halves: the religion of the Roman Republic, covering the fifth through first centuries B.C.; and the religious diversity of the Roman...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Roman Elections in the Age of Cicero

   Society, Government, and Voting

   By Rachel Feig Vishnia

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

   Great debate exists amongst classical historians on the nature of Roman republican government. Some contend that the Roman Republic was governed by a small group of aristocratic families that entrenched their rule by means of long-standing alliances and an intricate network of loyal clients from...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Empedocles Redivivus

   Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius

   By Myrto Garani

   Series: Studies in Classics

   Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius’ debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius’ applause for his Presocratic predecessor’s praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In the present study, Garani suggests...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Rome in the Pyrenees

   Lugdunum and the Convenae from the first century B.C. to the seventh century A.D.

   By Simon Esmonde-Cleary

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees, and for its surrounding people the Convenae. The book opens with the creation of the Convenae by Pompey the Great in the first...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus

   By Hans-Friedrich Mueller

   Valerius Maximus was an indefatigable collector of historical anecdotes illustrating vice and virtue. Mueller focuses on what Valerius can tell us about Roman attitudes to religion, and argues that Roman religion could be deeply emotional....

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. A Portrait of Roman Britain

   By John Wacher

   The Romans occupied Britain for almost four hundred years, and their influence is still all around us - in the shape of individual monuments such as Hadrians Wall, the palace at Fishbourne and the spa complex at Bath, as well as in subtler things such as the layout and locations of ancient towns...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins

   Sex and Category in Roman Religion

   By Ariadne Staples

   Ariadne Staples provides an arresting and original analysis of the role of women in Roman society, which challenges traditionally held views and provokes further questions....

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revivals)

    An Historical Perspective, A.D. 330-1453

    By Robert Byron

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron’s work...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge