Recent years have witnessed an intense debate concerning the size of the population of
Roman Italy. This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological …

Rome's wars delivered great wealth to the conquerors, but how did this affect politics and
society on the home front? In Power and Public Finance at Rome, James Tan offers the first …

A Companion to the Punic Wars offers a comprehensive new survey of the three wars fought
between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC. Offers a broad survey of the Punic …

The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the
quaestorship and has probably discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study …

Histories of ancient Rome have long emphasized the ways in which the empire assimilated
the societies it conquered, bringing civilization to the supposed barbarians. Yet …

The Roman empire extended over three continents, and all its lands came to share a
common culture, bequeathing a legacy vigorous even today. A Companion to Roman …

Before Roman legions crossed the Strait of Messina, Carthage had been the preeminent
power in the western Mediterranean. During the First and Second Punic Wars, the city …

Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188
BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map–a brittle framework …

This chapter examines three cities in eastern Sicily: one inland (Centuripae) and two on the
coast (Catina and Syracuse). All three were settled in the archaic period. They maintained …

Writing the history of the island of Sicily in the last three centuries befor Augustus presents a
challenge: that of overcoming the narratives constructed b our Greco-Roman literary sources …