In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. Written by a team of specialist scholars, this book traces the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire and its consolidation in the first two centuries CE. It
includes chapters on social and political history, the Emperors, art and architecture, and the works of the leading Roman poets, historians, and philosophers.
Jasper Griffin: Introduction
1. Michael Crawford: Early Rome and Italy
2. Elizabeth Rawson: The Expansion of Rome
3. P. G. McC. Brown: The First Roman Literature
4. Miriam Griffin: Cicero and Rome
5. Robin Nisbet: The Poets of the Late Republic
6. David Stockton: The
Founding of the Empire
7. Nicholas Purcell: The Arts of Government
8. R O A M Lyne: Augustan Poetry and Society
9. Jasper Griffin: Virgil
10. Andrew Lintott: Roman Historians
11. Donald Russell: The Arts of Prose: The Early Empire
12. Richard Jenkyns: Silver Latin Poetry
and the Latin Novel
13. Anthony Meredith: Later Philosophy
14. Roger Ling: The Arts of Living
15. John Matthews: Roman Life and Society
16. R J A Wilson: Roman Art and Architecture
17. Henry Chadwick: Envoi: On Taking Leave of Antiquity
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Index
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Edited by John Boardman, Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford, author of The Oxford History of Classical Art, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Jasper Griffin, Jowett Lecturer and Tutor in Classics, Balliol College, Oxford. and Oswyn Murray, Jowett Lecturer and Tutor in Ancient History,
Balliol College, Oxford.
