The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment The
growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our …

Coinage is one of our key sources for the rich and fascinating history of the Hellenistic world
(323-31 BC). This book provides students of the period with an up-to-date introduction to …

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 …

Ancient Samnium focuses on the region of Samnium in Italy, where a rich blend of historical,
literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological evidence supports a fresh perspective …

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 …

In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and
interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology …

By the third century BC, the once-modest settlement of Rome had conquered most of Italy
and was poised to build an empire throughout the Mediterranean basin. What transformed a …

During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the
peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic …

This paper investigates the settlement developments of the landscape around the ancient
town of Venusia in southern Italy using legacy field survey data. A Latin colony was …

The satires explored in this volume are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's
trickiest poet. Horace was an ironist, sneaky smart, and prone to hiding things under the …