Ancient Rome/Bibliography

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Encylopedias and atlases

  • Bunson, Matthew. Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire. Rev. ed. Facts on File, 2002.
  • Markel, Rita J. 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 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

Etruscans

  • Barker, Graeme, and Tom Rasmussen. The Etruscans (2000) excerpt and text search
  • Haynes, Sybille. Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History (2005)


Technology

  • Berechman, Joseph. "Transportation––economic aspects of Roman highway development: the case of Via Appia." Transportation Research Part A (2003): 453-478.
  • Hodge, A. Trevor. Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply(2002) excerpt and text search
  • Laurence, Ray. The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change. Routledge, 1999 .

Social and economic history

  • Carcopino, Jerome. Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire (2003) excerpt and text search
  • Casson, Lionel. Everyday Life in Ancient Rome (1999) excerpt and text search
  • 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.
  • Rostovtzeff, M. A History of the Ancient World, Vol. II, Rome. (1927)
  • Turcan, Robert. The Gods of Ancient Rome: Religion in Everyday Life from Archaic to Imperial Times (2001) excerpt and text search

Urban History

Stambaugh, John. The Ancient Roman City (1988)

Politics and Emperors

  • Grant, Michael. The Twelve Caesars (1975)
  • 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
  • Scullard, Howard H. From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68. (1963) online edition
  • Syme, Ronald. The Roman Revolution (1939, rev ed. 2002) excerpt and text search

Journals

  • American Journal of Ancient History
  • British School at Rome. Papers.
  • Greece and Rome.
  • Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies.
  • Journal of Roman archaeology.
  • Journal of Roman studies.