Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire

03 Oct 1994 12:02

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A sub-set of classical antiquity as a whole.

Republican constitution. Oldest religious rites. The numina. The lictors and other colleges. Costs and benefits of the empire. Proto-industrialism and proto-capitalism. Architecture. Contacts with Africa, Asia. Perception by its contemporaries and successors.

To read:
• Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary
• Jean Andreau, Banking and Business in the Roman World
• John R. Clarke, Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans: Visual Representation and Non-Elite Viewers in Italy, 100 B.C.--A.D. 315 [Blurb]
• Paul Erdkamp, The Grain Market in the Roman Empire: A Social, Political and Economic Study [Blurb]
• Elaine Fantham, Roman Literary Culture
• Cary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War [Blurb]
• Alain Gowing, Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture [blurb]
• Erich S. Gruen, Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome ["Gives a compelling account of the assimilation and adaptation of Greek culture by the Romans"]
• L. A. and J. A. Hamey, The Roman Engineers
• Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
• Sharon L. James, Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy [Review in BMCR]
• Gordon P. Kelly, A History of Exile in the Roman Republic [Blurb]
• Ramsay MacMullen, Romanization in the Time of Augustus [From a bookseller's catalog: "Why during the lifetime of Augustus (63 B.C. to A.D. 14) did Roman civilization spread so quickly, influencing art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, and city design throughout the ancient world? MacMullen argues that this acculturation was due to eager imitation by conquered peoples ably served by Romans' effective techniques of mass production and standardization."]
• Susan P. Mattern, Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate
• Alexander G. McKay, Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World
• Annabel Patterson (ed.), Roman Images: The Idea of Rome in Western Cultural History
• Susan Raven, Rome in Africa
• Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff, The Social and Economic History of the Roman EmpireRoyston and Lambert, Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous
• Rabun M. Taylor, The Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process
• Robern Turcan and Antonia Nevill, The Cults of the Roman Empire
• C. R. Whittaker, Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study
• Greg Woolf, Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul