The Cavalry of the Roman Republic

By Jeremiah B. McCall

In this original and revealing work, Jeremiah B. McCall challenges the generally accepted view of the Roman cavalry and explores the fundamental connections between war...

Published October 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Roman World

Edited by John Wacher

When originally published in 1987, this book was hailed as a landmark in the study of the Roman World. Now back in print with a...

Published September 27th 2001 by Routledge.

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The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine

By Miss Pat Southern, Pat Southern

The third century AD in the Roman Empire began and ended with Emperors who are recognised today as being strong and dynamic - Septimius Severus,...

Published August 23rd 2001 by Routledge.

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Augustus

By Pat Southern

Despite his talent for self-promotion, the character of the emperor Augustus is rarely revealed and as such makes this biography unique in its presentation of...

Published August 9th 2001 by Routledge.

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Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire

Edited by Colin Adams, Ray Laurence

The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire....

Published June 21st 2001 by Routledge.

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Imperial Inquisitions

Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian

By Steven H. Rutledge

Delatores (political informants) and accusatores (malicious prosecutors) were a major part of life in imperial Rome. Contemporary sources depict them as cruel and heartless mercenaries,...

Published March 15th 2001 by Routledge.

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Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome

By Donald G. Kyle

The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G....

Published December 7th 2000 by Routledge.

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Roman Edessa

Politics and Culture on the Eastern Fringes of the Roman Empire, 114 - 242 C.E.

By Steven K. Ross

Roman Edessa offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa, Turkey), which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the...

Published October 26th 2000 by Routledge.

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A History of the Ptolemaic Empire

By Günther Hölbl

This compelling narrative provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the rise and decline of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt over three centuries - from...

Published September 28th 2000 by Routledge.

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The Government of the Roman Empire

A Sourcebook

By Dr Barbara Levick, Barbara Levick

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...

Published September 7th 2000 by Routledge.

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