Many narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a
Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of …

This paper outlines a new framework for the historical study of Rome and Italy during the
middle republican period. We argue that traditional approaches centred upon social …

Despite over a century of research, the rationale behind Rome's relatively late adoption of
coinage c. 300 bce remains something of a mystery. 1 The traditional argument for this …

Cicero claims that states were created for the protection of property, so a statesman should
try to avoid levying property taxes. A contrary principle holds that, as long as the state is …

Apart from the office's role in managing state properties, Romans of the republic connected
the censor with several discrete functions in respect of people. The first was the maintaining …

This volume demonstrates the development of Roman military bureaucracy during the
Middle Republic, expanding on recent research to examine these administrative systems …

This article reinterprets an incident that Livy (8.18. 4–11) and derivative later sources place
in the year 331 BCE: a wave of poisonings whose perpetrators are brought to light after an …

As Jonathan Roth noted at the start of his 1999 The Logistics of the Roman Army at War
(264 BC–AD 235),“The Romans were well aware of the importance of good diet in …

Abstract Verhagen, F. 2024. Daily life in the Roman Republican countryside. A ceramic
perspective on change and continuity in the production, distribution and consumption of …

Although the Roman Republic took over two hundred years to conquer “The Middle Sea,”
the real transition from Italian hegemon to Mediterranean empire occurred in the critical …