![]() SOCIETY AND DAILY LIFE Traditional values and customs Economy and money Work The role of women (including Cornelia, Octavia, Pompeia Paulina, Sempronia, Livia, Agrippina the Younger) Slaves and slavery Education Dress Food and drink Holidays and the games Further readingġ01 104 105 107 109 120 123 125 127 130 133ĪRT, ARCHITECTURE, AND BUILDING Sculpture Painting and mosaic Gem engraving Domestic architecture The architecture of public buildings Further reading RELIGIONS AND MYTHOLOGY Roman divinities Prayer and sacrifice Omens Worship in the home Worship in the fields The religion of the state Cults of the east Religious philosophies: Stoics and Epicureans Jews and Christians Further reading TWELVE CAESARS Julius Caesar Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero Galba Otho Vitellius Vespasian Titus Domitian Further readingģ7 42 46 49 52 54 58 60 61 62 63 66 70 72 159–121 BC) Gaius Marius (157–86 BC) and the reform of the Roman army Sulla (138–78 BC) and his constitutional reforms Further reading ![]() THE REPUBLIC Officers of state and assemblies The conflict of orders The Twelve Tables From city state to Italian empire Cato the censor (234–149 BC) The Punic Wars (264–146 BC) The growth of empire and the early provincial system Tiberius Gracchus (168–133 BC) and Gaius Gracchus (c. THE ORIGINS OF ROME The founding legends: Romulus and Aeneas The site of Rome Etruscan influence Under the kings Further reading ![]() List of figures and table List of maps Acknowledgements A note on classical literary sources ![]() British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to © 19 Antony Kamm All rights reserved. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. THE ROMANS: An Introduction Second Editionįirst published in 1995 by Routledge Second edition published in 2008 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business His other publications include Collins Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (1993), The Israelites: An Introduction (Routledge 1999), and Julius Caesar: A Life (Routledge 2006).Īlso by Antony Kamm THE ISRAELITES: AN INTRODUCTION JULIUS CAESAR: A LIFE The book now has its own dedicated website packed full of additional resources: Antony Kamm is a former lecturer in publishing studies at the University of Stirling. Maps have been redrawn and new ones included along with extra illustrations, and reading lists have been revised and updated. New features include a glossary of Latin terms and timelines. There is more, too, on the diversity and administration of the empire at different periods, on changes in the army, and on significant figures of the middle and later imperial eras. In particular, the chapter on religions has been expanded, as have the sections on the role of women and on Roman social divisions and cultural traditions. This new edition contains extensive additional and revised material designed to enhance the value of the book to students especially of classical or Roman civilization, Roman history, or elementary Latin, as well as to general readers and students of other disciplines for whom an understanding of the civilization and literature of Rome is desirable. It covers more than 1,200 years of political and military history, including many of the famous, and infamous, personalities who featured in them, and describes the religions, society, and daily life of the Romans, and their literature, art, architecture, and technology, illustrated by extracts in new translations from Latin and Greek authors of the times. The Romans: An Introduction 2nd edition is a concise, readable, and comprehensive survey of the civilization of ancient Rome.
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