The capitals from the Trajan Column at Rome

This chapter discusses how Trajan after his accession in 98 reconsolidated the imperial house. Trajan was from the Spanish province Baetica, his wife, Plotina, likely from Narbones...

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the Roman and Dacian fighting men who clashed in three bloody encounters during the Dacian Wars of AD 85–106. While the Roma...

Roman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence. Through the case studies of Caesar’s hegemony, Augustus’s autocracy, and Tiberi...

Abstract The Rome I Regulation applies to all EU Member States (except Denmark) in relation to ‘contractual obligations in civil and commercial matters’ in ‘situatio...

Romans held that the Republican city was built almost instantly following the earlier city’s catastrophic destruction by Gauls in 390 BCE. Furthermore, the huge costs of rebuilding...

This chapter examines the development of the city commune in Rome during the period 1050–1150. Rome does not occupy a central place in accounts of early Italian city communes. The ...

Abstract The freestanding arch is among ancient Rome’s most innovative and distinctive architectural developments. Despite the widespread presence of the arch thr...

In Dionysius and the City of Rome: Portraits of Founders in the ‘Roman Antiquities’, Beatrice Poletti examines Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ description of figures traditionally rega...