Folio, 322 pages. Photo pictorial DJ; brown linen with gold stamped titles on face and spine. DJ present. A very exciting assortment of essays and illustrations after all manner of sources. Will make either an Archaeologist or Classicist out of just about anyone.

Rome and Her Empire

History

Cunliffe, Barry W.

Ancient Civilizations

McGraw=Hill

Far more than a history, this brilliantly illustrated volume offers a reconstruction in human terms of the many facets of Rome's extraordinary legacy. The Romans speak to us here through their splendid achievements and their tragic failures, their monuments and their tastes, to give us an understanding of the spirit behind these dramatic events. From village to Empire, for nearly a millennium Rome kept up a dizzying pace of change and expansion. Stirring victories over Hannibal, the Gauls, the Britons alternated with peaceful intervals of cultural development under Augustus and Marcus Aurelius, until the final days of chaos and decline.Those thousand years take shape on the pages of Professor Cunliffe's beautiful book to give us a gradually unfolding vision of a people who once lived and of a resplendent world now in ruins.Instead of a textbook, he has virtually recreated Rome itself, a world opening up, maintaining its brief, fragile balance, and then collapsing. The whole dynamic nature of the process is evoked here by the use of historical passages alternating with concise analytical views of daily life."The rise and fall of a great empire," Professor Cunliffe writes, "cannot fail to fascinate us, for we can see in such a story something of our own time. But of all the empires that have come or gone, none has a more immediate appeal than the Empire of Rome. It pervades our lives today."The sheer vastness of the Empire was staggering. At its height, it extended across 2,600 miles east to west, and 2,000 miles north to south. But these figures mean little. Even understood as reaching from the north of Britain to Africa, and engulfing Spain, Germany, and lands as far as the Persian Gulf, Rome does not come alive until captured - as in this book - through glimpses of shops and villas, the voices of people, the echoing theaters, baths, temples, and slums.And Professor Cunliffe provides them for the reader. Along with the history of Rome's growth and dominion, he has added a careful history of her changing political, social, and cultural institutions. But above all, the Romans themselves speak. Cicero, Seneca, and Petronius seize the flavour of the Roman experience. Marius, Pompey, and Caesar use the urban mob as a pawn in their power games. Livy pieces together the city's origins from folklore. Even the coins transmit news and instill piety, ultimately becoming devices for propaganda.Tombstones, monuments, bawdy and political graffiti, and private letters miraculously preserved give us a wealth of human details - the voices that gave life to Rome and her Empire...A young soldier writes home to Egypt: "Dear mother, I hope this finds you well. When you get this letter, I will be much obliged if you will send me some money...."On a wooden tablet from London written by a master to his servant in Rome: "I believe you know I am very well. If you have made the list, please send. See that you turn the slave girl into cash...."Lucretius the Epicurean explains natural phenomena in terms of philosophical concepts; Vitruvius lays down the rules of architecture; the poets and playwrights all help enrich the fabric - and our heightened understanding - of Roman life.In this handsome book, such materials provide readers with the eloquent testament and indestructible evidence of a city that emerged from obscurity in 500 B.C. and directed the civilized world until the birth of Constantinople in 500 A.D.Featured among the volume's 1,000 illustrations, of which half are in full color, are superb photographs by former Life correspondent Brian Brake and by Leonard von Matt. These stunning works are augmented by additional photographs, reproductions, portraits, engravings, maps, and drawings that capture even more of the gifts that have been handed down to us by the Romans.

Constable & Robinson Ltd.

Describes what the work of archaeologists has revealed about the Roman armies and the "barbarians" from Northern Europe whom they fought in the period of approximately 150 B.C. to 150 A.D.

Rome and the barbarians (A Bodley Head archaeology)

Bodley Head

'Rome and Her Empire' is an account of one of the world's greatest historical periods.

Rome and her empire

London: Bodley Head

Fishbourne: a Roman palace and its garden (New aspects of antiquity)

Thames and Hudson

Probes the mysteries of the Celts, examining their legendary savagery in battle and the contributions of the artisans and traders who established the first cities in barbarian Europe

Celtic World: An Illustrated History of the Celtic Race: Their Culture, Customs and Legends

Europe

Random House Value Publishing

Iron age communities in Britain: An account of England, Scotland, and Wales from the seventh century BC until the Roman conquest (Archaeology of Britain)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

The finding in 1727 of the gilded bronze head of the Roman goddess Minerva led to the discovery of the Roman temple and of the baths. Since then archaeologists have discovered more and more about the Roman city of Aquae Sulis. In this new edition of a work first published almost 30 years ago, Professor Barry Cunliffe brings the story right up to date. He deals in detail with the temple and its precinct and with the "curse tablets" which have been deciphered to reveal the thoughts of Roman visitors. He then explains just how the bathing establishment was organized and explores the relationship between the spa and the town. We learn what life was like for the local inhabitants as well as for the visitors, and he charts the process of decline and decay during the 300 years after the Roman period.

Roman Bath Discovered

In 1969, Professor Barry Cunliffe embarked on the most ambitious excavation of an Iron Age hillfort ever undertaken. The fourteen year's work on Danebury Ring in Hampshire not only provides an insight into the methods of modern archaeology; it also offers a comprehensive picture of Iron Age society and economy in Western Europe. Against the background of other British hillforts, the author reveals the main phases in Danebury's rise and fall that have been uncovered by the excavation programme. Although major changes inevitably took place between the first fortifications around 550BC and the camp's destruction in about 100BC, nevertheless a picture of considerable stability emerges. Professor Cunliffe looks at different aspects of the life led by the 200-350 Celts living in Danebury - their love of war; their buildings; their agriculture and crafts; their rituals relating to life and death. He also traces Danebury's fate during the Roman invasions and subsequently in the medieval and later periods. The author has also written "Iron Age Communities in Britain".\nContents: 
Hillforts - progress towards an understanding 
The Danebury project takes shape; 
Man and landscape in Wessex; 
The fort builders - the sequence established; 
Defence and warfare; 
The settlement - its people and their houses; 
Daily bread - the farming regime; 
Crafts, exchange and luxury; 
The social order; 
The end of Danebury; 
Aftermath - fairs and rabbits.

Danebury

METHUEN

The Regni (Peoples of Roman Britain)

Duckworth

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Rome and Her Empire

Rome and Her Empire

Rome and the barbarians (A Bodley Head archaeology)

Rome and her empire

Fishbourne: a Roman palace and its garden (New aspects of antiquity)

Celtic World: An Illustrated History of the Celtic Race: Their Culture, Customs and Legends

Iron age communities in Britain: An account of England, Scotland, and Wales from the seventh century BC until the Roman conquest (Archaeology of Britain)

Roman Bath Discovered

Danebury

The Regni (Peoples of Roman Britain)