Ancient Rome/Bibliography

Surveys

• Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray, (eds.) The Oxford History of the Roman World. Oxford University Press, 1991 excerpt and text search
• Bauer, Susan Wise. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (2007) excerpt and text search
• Grant, Michael. History of Rome (2002)
• Grant, Michael. Fall of the Roman Empire (1997)
• Grant, Michael. The Twelve Caesars (1975)
• Grant, Michael. The World of Rome (1987) excerpt and text search
• Matyszak, Philip. Chronicle of the Roman Republic: the rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus. Thames & Hudson, 2003.
• Scarre, C. Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign by Reign Record of Imperial Rome. London, 1995.
• Scullard, Howard H. A History of the Roman World from 753 to 146 BC (1961) online edition
• Zoch, Paul A. Ancient Rome: An Introductory History 2000) excerpt and text search

Encylopedias and atlases

• Bunson, Matthew. Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire. Rev. ed. NY: Facts on File, 2002.
• Markel. Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome (2003) excerpt and text search
• Scarre, Chris. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (1995) excerpt and text search
• Talbert, Richard J. A. ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton U. Press, 2000.

The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World by is a comprehensive atlas spanning the entire period and spatial spread of Greek and Roman civilization. The double-folio-sized atlas contains 102 color topographic maps (many double spreads) and covers a vast arc of territory, from the British Isles and the Azores eastward across Europe and North Africa, up the Nile valley and through the Near East to Afghanistan and western China. Temporally, it covers the period from 1,000 BC/BCE to AD/CE 650.

Contemporanious Historians

• Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE) Rome at the End of The Punic Wars
• Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) War Commentaries
• Livy (59 BCE-17 CE)The History of Rome

Roman technology

• Berechman, Joseph. "Transportation––economic aspects of Roman highway development: the case of Via Appia." Transportation Research Part A (2003): 453-478.
• Laurence, Ray. The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change. Routledge , 1999 .

Social and ecomomic history

• Casson, Lionel. Everyday Life in Ancient Rome (1999) excerpt and text search
• Turcan, Robert. The Gods of Ancient Rome: Religion in Everyday Life from Archaic to Imperial Times (2001) excerpt and text search

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• Cowell, F. R. Life in Ancient Rome (1976) excerpt and text search
• Dupont, Florence. Daily Life in Ancient Rome (1994) excerpt and text search
• Greene, Kevin. The Archaeology of the Roman Economy. University of California Press, 1986.

Journals

American journal of ancient history

American journal of philology

British School at Rome. Papers.

Greece and Rome.

Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies.

Journal of Roman archaeology.

Journal of Roman studies.