The biographies of Roman emperors from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Nero, Caligula, Claudius, and others are filled with historical interest and scandal.
This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. This book: covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western Europe; examines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics that characterized religious life as a whole; draws on a wide range of primary ...
The Germania of Tacitus is the most extensive account of the ancient Germans written during the Roman period, but has been relatively neglected in the scholarship of the English-speaking world: the last commentary appeared in 1938, and only a handful of studies have appeared since that time. In recent decades, however, there have been important ...
This book examines the organization of religion in the Roman empire from Augustus to Constantine. Although there have been illuminating particular studies of the relationship between religious activity and socio-political authority in the empire, there has been no large-scale attempt to assess it as a whole. Taking as his focus the situation in ...
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