A highly accessible survey of life in the capital of the Roman Empire, the largest metropolis of its day.
Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World Series
This series delves into the ancient world, exploring pivotal periods and events in the history and civilization of Greece and Rome. Each volume features newly commissioned essays that analyze significant societal shifts in politics, economics, the arts, and warfare. Offering a synthesis of existing scholarship, these books also pose new questions and suggest fresh avenues of inquiry. They serve as invaluable resources for both students and scholars seeking a deeper understanding.
Recommended Reading Order
A sophisticated introduction to and assessment of all aspects of the Roman Empire's economic life.
This Companion volume features fifteen essays exploring various aspects of the Hellenistic world, from religion and philosophy to economy and military campaigns. It examines the impact of Alexander's conquests, the uniqueness of the Hellenistic age, and offers a comprehensive understanding of this complex period. A bibliography and further reading recommendations are included.
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law
- 554 pages
- 20 hours of reading
This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law. The essays, newly-commissioned for this volume, cover the sources of evidence for classical Roman law; the elements of private law, as well as criminal and public law; and the second life of Roman law in Byzantium, in civil and canon law, and in political discourse from AD 1100 to the present. Roman law nowadays is studied in many different ways, which is reflected in the diversity of approaches in the essays. Some focus on how the law evolved in ancient Rome, others on its place in the daily life of the Roman citizen, still others on how Roman legal concepts and doctrines have been deployed through the ages. All of them are responses to one and the same thing: the sheer intellectual vitality of Roman law, which has secured its place as a central element in the intellectual tradition and history of the West.