Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts. There was, therefore, a
tension between the traditional expectation that triumphs should be celebrated for victories …

Rome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This
book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within Italy, then around the …

Building Mid-Republican Rome offers a holistic treatment of the development of the Mid-
Republican city from 396 to 168 BCE. As Romans established imperial control over Italy and …

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 …

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 …

The narrative of Roman history has been largely shaped by the surviving literary sources,
augmented in places by material culture. The numerous surviving coins can, however …

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 …

It was once a disease of the Greeks to investigate what number of rowers Ulysses had,
whether the Iliad or the Odyssey was written first [prior]... but this pointless desire for learning …

One cannot hope to understand Roman politics or the successes and failures of the Romans
without first coming to grips with Rome's remarkably durable and resilient governing class …

This chapter aims to show how Polybius, a Greek and one of the Achaean League's ruling
elite, offered to the Greek public an interpretative picture of Rome's political experience …