Roman History & Culture Books

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11. Banishment in the Later Roman Empire, 284-476 CE

    By Daniel Washburn

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

    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 to those who committed a misstep or crossed the wrong person; it also stood as a marker of...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
12. Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World

    Contests of Virtue

    By Heather Reid

    Series: Ethics and Sport

    This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
13. Ancient Medicine

    2nd Edition

    By Vivian Nutton

    Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

    The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making...

    Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
14. Utopia Antiqua

    Readings of the Golden Age and Decline at Rome

    By Rhiannon Evans

    Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

    Utopia Antiqua is a fresh look at narratives of the Golden Age and decline in ancient Roman literature of the late Republic and imperial period. Through the lens of utopian theory, Rhiannon Evans looks at the ways that Roman authors, such as Virgil, Ovid and Tacitus, use and reinvent Greek myths...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
15. Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire

    By Michael Grant

    Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire presents a study of third century Rome, which is lavishly illustrated and a lucid read, typical of Michael Grant's inimitable style.In Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire, Michael Grant asserts that the fact that the Roman empire of the third century...

    Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
16. The Late Roman World and Its Historian

    Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus

    By Jan Willem Drijvers, David Hunt

    Ammianus Marcellinus, Greek by birth but writing in Latin c. AD 390, was the last great Roman historian. His writings are an indispensable basis for our knowledge of the late Roman world. This book represents a collection of papers analysing Ammianus's writings from a variety of perspective,...

    Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
17. The Family in Late Antiquity

    The Rise of Christianity and the Endurance of Tradition

    By Geoffrey Nathan

    The Family in Late Antiquity offers a challenging, well-argued and coherent study of the family in the late Roman world and the influence of the emerging Christian religion on its structure and value.Before the Roman Empire's political disintegration in the west, enormous political, religious and...

    Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
18. Julian's Gods

    Religion and Philosophy in the Thought and Action of Julian the Apostate

    By Rowland B. E. Smith

    Julian's brief reign (360-363 AD) had a profound impact on his contemporaries, as he worked fervently for a pagan restoration in the Roman Empire, which was rapidly becoming Christian. Julian's Gods focuses on the cultural mentality of `the last pagan Emperor' by examining a wide variety of his own...

    Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
19. The Hand of Cicero

    By Shane Butler

    Hundreds perished in Rome's Second Proscription, but one victim is remembered above all others. Cicero stands out, however, not only because of his fame, but also because his murder included a unique addition to the customary decapitation. For his corpse was deprived not only of its head, but also...

    Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
20. The Historians of Ancient Rome

    An Anthology of the Major Writings, 3rd Edition

    Edited by Ronald Mellor

    Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

    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 passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace...

    Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge