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Roman World A Sourcebook

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ISBN-10: 0631217843

ISBN-13: 9780631217848

Edition: 2001

Authors: David Cherry

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The 57 documents in this sourcebook introduce readers to many of the major topics of Roman history, from the period of the Twelve Tables (c.451 BC) to the later Roman empire: the structure of Roman society, slavery, the position of women and the nature of family life, farm-management and agricultural practices, scientific and medical knowledge, political and religious life, the military, and the non-Roman world beyond the frontiers. Each of the selections has been chosen for its historical significance and intrinsic interest, and is introduced and annotated by the editor. Extended selections from works such as Petronius' 'Satyricon' and Suetonius' biography of the mad emperor Caligula allow…    
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Book details

List price: $72.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/8/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.72" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.100

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
The Social Order
The Twelve Tables
Plutarch, Life of Cato the Elder (selections)
Juvenal, Satires 3
Horace, Satires 2.8
Diodorus of Sicily, Historical Library 34.2
L'Annue and pigraphique 1971, 88
Petronius, Satyricon (selections)
Theodosian Code (selections)
Women, Marriage, and Family
Livy, History of Rome 34.2-4
Juvenal, Satires 6 (selections)
Oxyryhnchus Papyrus 744
Berliner Griechische Urkunden 1052
Plutarch, Precepts of Marriage (selections)
Laudatio Turiae (Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae 8393)
Pliny, Letters 4.19
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 13.1983
Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds and Sayings 6.3.9-12
Economy
Plutarch, Life of Cato the Elder 21
Cicero, On Duties 1.150-1
Cato, On Agriculture (selections)
Columella, On Farming (selections)
Science and Medicine
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (selections)
Celsus, On Medicine (selections)
Galen, On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body 14.6-7
Soranus, Gynecology (selections)
Politics and Government
Polybius, Histories (selections)
Cicero, In Defense of Sestius (selections)
Quintus Cicero, Handbook on Campaigning for Office
Tacitus, Annals 1.1-15
Augustus, Accomplishments of the Deified Augustus
Suetonius, Caligula (selections)
Diocletian, Price Edict (selections)
Ammianus Marcellinus, History (selections)
Theodosian Code (selections)
Rome and the Provinces
Cicero, Letters to his Brother Quintus 1.1.8-35
British Museum Papyrus 1912
Charter of Urso (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 1.594) (selections)
Aelius Aristides, To Rome (selections)
The Army
Vegetius, Epitome of Military Science (selections)
Polybius, Histories (selections)
R. O. Fink, Roman Military Records on Papyrus, no. 63
Anonymous, On Military Matters (selections)
Beyond the Frontier
Caesar, Gallic War 6.13-23
Tacitus, Agricola (selections)
Tacitus, Germania (selections)
Ammianus Marcellinus, History 23.6.75-84
Ammianus Marcellinus, History 31.2.1-11
Pagans and Christians
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 2.67
Plutarch, Life of Romulus 21.3-5
Cato, On Agriculture 139-41
Augustine, City of God 4.8
Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11 (selections)
Minucius Felix, Octavius (selections)
Tacitus, Annals 15.44
Pliny, Letters 10.96-7
Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 5.1-31
H. Musurillo, The Acts of the Christian Martyrs, no. 22
Roman Emperors, to AD 395
Coins, Weights, and Measures
Chronological Table
Index