Roman Civilization: Selected Readings: The Empire, Volume 2

by Naphtali Lewis

Book Overview

Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold's Roman Civilization is a classic. Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1955, the authors have undertaken another revision which takes into account recent work in the field. These volumes consist of selected primary documents from ancient Rome, covering a range f over 1,000 years of Roman culture, from the foundation of the city to its sacking by the Goths.

The selections cover a broad...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231071337
• ISBN13: 9780231071338
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 674 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Original Sources

This anthology of original sources contains excerpts both from classical historians (generally writing during the early Empire) and from letters, monuments, governmental decrees, laws and inscriptions. This isn't an introduction to Roman Civilization: the editorial comments help set the context but you need to know the political history and the geography in broad outline already, or be learning it as you read this book. The selections fill in the details, and give you some sense of how the Romans and their subject peoples of various periods throughout Rome's hundreds of years of history thought of themselves and their times, on matters of foreign and domestic policy, social order, religion, and Rome's place in the world.

Liber Perexcellens

Although I was required to purchase and use this book for my Roman History course, I found it to be absolutely amazing in quality and detailed and compelling in content.No enthusiast of Classical civilization, amature or professional, should be without this book.