This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical realities of such events,
This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical realities of such events,
While Rome Burned attends to the intersection of fire, city, and emperor in ancient Rome, tracing the critical role that urban conflagration played as both real
However shared the Roman inheritance may be, it hardly unifies. Which Rome is the model, the Republic or the Empire? The Rome of imperial conquest or of civil w
Plundering and taking home precious objects from a defeated enemy was a widespread activity in the Greek and Hellenistic-Roman world. In this volume literary cr