The Historians of Ancient Rome

An Anthology of the Major Writings
4. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-8153-9366-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 800 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume, tracing the history of Rome from the city’s foundation by Romulus in 753 BCE to the rise of Christianity as the religion of the Roman emperors in the fourth century CE.

After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers as well as coins, images, and inscriptions explore over 1000 years of Rome’s history. Readers will engage with how the Romans wrote about Rome’s climb to world domination and the challenges it faced in the late empire: the defeat of Hannibal; the conquest of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean; the defeat of the Catilinarian conspiracy; Caesar’s conquest of Gaul; Antony and Cleopatra; the establishment of the Empire by Caesar Augustus; the horrors of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero; the “Roman Peace” under Hadrian; and the political turmoil, disintegration, and consolidation in the third and fourth centuries CE. The fourth edition has been revised to include maps, coins, new inscriptions, images, and additional readings, providing a rich anthology that makes visible both the textual and material worlds by which Roman society represented, controlled, and experienced the past.

The Historians of Ancient Rome is intended both for undergraduate courses in Roman history and for the general reader interested in approaching the Romans through the original historical sources. This is a book which no student of Roman history should be without.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moralee, Jason

Mellor, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Historical Inscriptions

2. Roman Coins as History

3. Polybius

4. Sallust

5. Cicero

6. Julius Caesar

7. Cornelius Nepos

8. Livy

9. Velleius Paterculus

10. Josephus

11. Tacitus

12. Pliny the Younger

13. Suetonius

14. Plutarch

15. Appian

16. Cassius Dio

17. Herodian

18. Lactantius

19. Eusebius

20. Historia Augusta

21. Ammianus Marcellinus

22. Zosimus

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald Mellor is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has been teaching Greek and Roman History, western civilization, and ancient world history since 1976. He was for five years Chair of the UCLA History department. His most recent book was "Tacitus’ Annals" published in 2011 by the Oxford University Press. His research focuses on ancient religion and Roman historiography. Other books include Thea Rome (1977), From Augustus to Nero: The First Dynasty of Imperial Rome (1990), Tacitus (1993), Tacitus: The Classical Heritage (1995), The Roman Historians (1999), and Caesar Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire (2005).

Jason Moralee is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He teaches Greek and Roman History and World Religions. His most recent book is Rome’s Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity.