Table of Contents

Edward Bispham: Introduction
1: Peter S. Wells: Iron Age Europe
2: Guy Bradley: The Roman Republic: Political History
3: Benet Salway: The Roman Empire from Augustus to Diocletian
4: Mary Harlow: Roman Society
5: Edward Bispham: Warfare and the Army
6: Andrew Wilson: Economy and Trade
7: Edward Bispham: Religions
8: Nicola Terrenato: The Cultural Implications of the Roman Conquest
9: William Bowden: The Fourth Century
10: Peter S. Wells: People Living Beyond the Imperial Roman Frontiers
Further Reading
Chronology
Index

About the Author

Edward Bispham is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Brasenose and St Anne's Colleges. He has published widely on various aspects of Roman history, including (as editor) The Edinbrugh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome and From Asculum to Actium: The Municipalization of Italy from the Social War to Augustus, which is also published by Oxford University Press.