Table of Contents

1: Conquest
2: Imperial Power
3: Collusion
4: History Wars
5: Christians to the Lions
6: Living and Dying
7: Rome Revisited

About the Author

Christopher Kelly is University Lecturer in Classics, Director of Studies in Classics, and Senior Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He regularly writes for the Times Literary Supplement, he is an editor of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, and has contributed major chapters to the Cambridge Ancient History, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine, and to Harvard University Press' Late Antiquity: A Guide
to the Postclassical World. His monograph, Ruling the Later Roman Empire was published by Harvard in 2004.

Reviews

This mervellous little book...succeeds in sketching the remarkable way in which the Roman Empire spread across Europe... Barbara Finney, The Journal of Classics Teaching "...the author has succeeded admirably. This is no cop out - themes are chosen sensibly and well presented. This book does what it says on the cover... This book is intellectual, yet accessible, well written, stimulating, original, and essential for those who wish to gain a rapid overview of the subject without getting bogged down." Dr Mark Merrony, Minerva