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TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Interest to Classicists

Lacus Curtius: Into the Roman World

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

Journal of Roman Archaeology

Journal of Roman Studies

A short list of abbreviations

If you see a work on this list, it is available at Cole Library or you may borrow it from me. Works with an asterisk (*) are on reserve. Please check web resources on the Trip to Italy home page.

PLACES TO START

Boethius, A., and Ward-Perkins, J.B. Etruscan and Roman Architecture. Penguin, 1970. 722.7 B633e*

Claridge, Amanda. Rome. Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford, 1998.*

Connolly, Peter, and Hazel Dodge. The Ancient City. Life in Classical Athens and Rome. Oxford, 1998. 937.6 C762an*

Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth, eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford, 1996. Brief, authoritative entries on nearly every aspect of the ancient world. Ref 913.38 Ox2 1996

Nash, E. Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Hacker, 1980. OVERSIZE S126 722.7 N172p v.1-2*

Ramage, Nancy, and Andrew Ramage. Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine. 2nd ed. Prentice-Hall, 1996. 709.37 R14r 1996*

Richardson, L. New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Johns Hopkins, 1992.*

Richardson Jr., L. Pompeii, an Architectural History. Johns Hopkins, 1988. 722.7 R394p*

Stambaugh, John E. The Ancient Roman City. Johns Hopkins, 1988. 307.764 St21an*

Strong, Donald. Roman Art. Pelican History of Art. Penguin, 1976. 709.37 St88r*

REFERENCE WORKS on the ANCIENT WORLD

Boardman, John, et al. The Oxford History of the Classical World. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Political, as well as social, cultural, and literary history. 938 Ox2

Garnsey, Peter, and Saller, Richard. The Roman Empire. Berkeley: California, 1987. 937.07 G189r

Grant, Michael, ed. Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. 3 vols. Riverside, NJ: Scribner's, 1988. Covers all aspects of the ancient world with short, authoritative articles. Ref 938 C499

Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth, eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford, 1996. Brief, authoritative entries on nearly every aspect of the ancient world. Ref 913.38 Ox2 1996

Pollitt, Jerome. Art in the Hellenistic Age. Cambridge, 1986. 709.38 P76ar

Wacher, John, ed. The Roman World. 2 vols. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.

GENERAL WORKS ON ARCHAEOLOGY

Biers, William R. Art, Artefacts and Chronology in Classical Archaeology. London: Routledge, 1992.

Renfrew, Colin. Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991.

Trigger, Bruce G. History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge, 1989.

ROMAN ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Anderson, James C. Jr. The Historical Topography of the Imperial Fora. Collection Latomus 182 (1984).

Boethius, A., and Ward-Perkins, J.B. Etruscan and Roman Architecture. Penguin, 1970. 722.7 B633e*

Clarke, John R. Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. Berkeley: California, 1991.

D'Ambra, Eve. Roman Art. Cambridge, 1998.

Darwall-Smith, Robin Haydon. Emperors and Architecture: A Study of Flavian Rome. Collection Latomus 231 (1996).

Dodge, Hazel. "Amusing the Masses: Buildings for Entertainment and Leisure in the Roman World." In D.S. Potter and D.J. Mattingly, eds. Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor: Michigan, 1999. 205-55. 937.06 L626*

Gazda, Elaine K., ed. Roman Art in the Private Sphere: New Perspectives on the Architecture and Decoration. U. of Michigan, 1991. 747.2937 R661

Greene, Kevin. Roman Pottery. Berkeley: California, 1992.

Kampen, Natalie Boymel. Sexuality in Ancient Art. Cambridge, 1996.

Keppie, L.J.F. Understanding Roman Inscriptions. Johns Hopkins, 1991.

Kleiner, Diana. Roman Sculpture. New Haven: Yale, 1992.

Ling, Roger. Roman Painting. Cambridge, 1991.

MacDonald, William L. The Architecture of the Roman Empire, Vol. I: An Introductory study; Vol II: An Urban Appraisal. Yale, 1982. 722.7 M145ar v.1-2

Potter, T.W. Roman Italy. Berkeley: California, 1987. 937 P855r

Rawson, Beryl, and Paul Weaver. The Roman Family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space. Oxford, 1997.

Stambaugh, John E. The Ancient Roman City. Johns Hopkins, 1988. 307.764 St21an

Thébert, Yvon. "Private Life and Domestic Architecture in Roman Africa," in History of Private Life 1. From Pagan Rome to Byzantium. Ed. Paul Veyne. Belknap, 1987. Reprinted in D'Ambra, Eve. Roman Art in Context: An Anthology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1993.

Torelli, Mario. Typology and Structure of Roman Historical Reliefs. U of Michigan, 1982. 733.5 T631t.

Ward-Perkins, J.B. Roman Imperial Architecture. Penguin, 1981. 722.7 W219r

White, L. Michael. The Social Origins of Christain Architecture, Volume I. Trinity Press International, 1996.

-----. The Social Origins of Christian Architecture, Volume II. Trinity Press International, 1996.

THE ETRUSCANS

Bonfante, Larissa. "Etruscan Sexuality and Funerary Art." In Natalie Kampen, ed. Sexuality in Ancient Art. Cambridge, 1996.

-----. Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies. Wayne State, 1986. 937.5 Et73

-----. "Historical Art: Etruscan and Early Roman." American Journal of Ancient History 3 (1978) 136-62.

Pallottino, Massimo. The Etruscans. Trans. J. Cremona. Indiana, 1975. 913.375 P17e 1975

Richardson, Emiline. The Etruscans: Their Art and Civilization. Chicago, 1964. 913.375 R393e

Spivey, Nigel. Etruscan Art. Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Torelli, Mario. "Funera Tusca: Reality and Representation in Archaic Tarquinian Painting." In Bergmann, Bettina, and Christine Kondoleon, eds. The Art of Ancient Spectacle. New Haven: Yale, 1999. OVERSIZE 709.01 Ar75

EARLY ROME

Ammerman, Albert J. "On the Origins of the Forum Romanum." AJA 94 (1990) 627-45.

Cornell, T. J. The Beginnings of Rome. Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000-264 BC). London: Routledge, 1995.

Holloway, R. Ross. Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium. London: Routledge, 1994.

Pallottino, Massimo. History of Earliest Italy. tr. Martin Ryle. U. of Michigan, 1991.

CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLIC BUILDING IN ROME

Blake, M.E. Ancient Roman Construction in Italy. Washington, D.C., 1947.

----- and Bishop, D.T. Roman Construction in Italy from Nerva through the Antonines. Philadelphia, 1973.

Bourne, F.C. The Public Works of the Julio-Claudians and Flavians. Princeton, 1946.

Cary, M. "The Municipal Legislation of Julius Caesar." JRS 27 (1937) 48-53.

Coarelli, F. "Public Building between the Second Punic War and Sulla." PBSR 45 (1977) 1-23.

Shipley, F.W. "Chronology of the Building Operations in Rome from the Death of Caesar to the Death of Augustus." MAAR 9 (1931) 7-60.

ROMAN ECONOMY

Arthur, P. and E. Oren. "The N Sinai survey and the evidence of transport amphorae for Roman and Byzantine trading patterns." JRA 11 (1998) 193-212.

Blackmann, D.J. "Ancient Harbors in the Mediterranean." Int. J. Nautical Archaeol. and Underwater Exploration 11 (1982) 79-104, 185-211.

Burnett, Andrew. Coins. Berkeley: California, 1991.

Casey, P.J. Understanding Ancient Coins: An Introduction for Archaeologists and Historians. U. of Oklahoma, 1986. 737.4 C268u

Duncan-Jones, Richard. The Economy of the Roman Empire. 2nd ed. Cambridge, 1982. 330.973 D912e

Duncan-Jones, Richard. Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy. Cambridge, 1990.

Finley, M.I. The Ancient Economy. Berkeley: California, 1985. 330.938 F496a

Frier, Bruce Woodward. "The Rental Market in Early Imperial Rome". JRS 67 (1977) 27-37.

Garnsey, Peter, ed. Trade in the Ancient Economy. U. of Calif., 1983. 382.09 T675

Greene, Kevin. The Archaeology of the Roman Economy. Berkeley: California, 1986. 330.937 G833ar

Houston, George W. "Ports in Perspective: Some Comparative materials on Roman ships and ports". AJA 92.4 (1988) 553-564.

Jones, A.H.M. The Roman Economy. Rowman and Littlefield, 1974. 330.937 J71r

Mattingly, D.J. "Oil for export? A comparison of Libyan, Spanish and Tunisian olive oil production in the Roman empire." JRA 1 (1988) 33-56.

Mitchell, Stephen. "Requisitioned Transport in the Roman Empire: A New Inscription from Pisidia". JRS 67 (1977) 106-131.

Parker, A.J. "Shipwrecks and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean." Archaeol. Rev. Cambridge 3.2 (1984) 99-113.

Peacock, D.P.S., and Williams, D.F. Amphorae and the Roman Economy. London, 1986.

Richardson, J.S. "The Spanish Mines and the Development of Provincial Taxation in the Second Century B.C.". JRS 67 (1977) 139-152.

Rickman, Geoffrey. The Corn supply of Ancient Rome. Oxford U., 1957.

Rostovtzeff, M. The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire. Oxford, 1957. 937.06 R73s

Sutherland, C.H.V. Roman History and Coinage, 44 B.C.-A.D. 69: Fifty points of Relation from Julius Caesar to Vespasian. Oxford, 1987.

ROMAN SOCIETY

Alfoldy, Geza. The Social History of Rome. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. 306.0945 Al28s

Bergmann, Bettina, and Christine Kondoleon, eds. The Art of Ancient Spectacle. New Haven: Yale, 1999. OVERSIZE 709.01 Ar75

Bradley, K.R. Slaves and masters in the Roman empire: a study in social control. Oxford, 1987. 306.363 B728s

Crook, J.A. Law and Life of Rome, 90 B.C. to A.D.. Cornell, 1988.

DeLaine, Janet. "Recent Research on Roman Baths." JRA 1 (1988) 11-32.

Dixon, Suzanne. Roman Family. Johns Hopkins, 1992.

Dyson, Stephen L. Community and Society in Roman Italy. Johns Hopkins, 1991.

Ellis, Simon P. "The End of the Roman House." AJA 92.4 (1988) 565-576.

Fagan, Garrett G. Bathing in Public in the Roman World. The University of Michigan Press, 1999.

Gardner, Jane F. Women in Roman Law and Society. Indiana U., 1986. 346.45 G174wo

--------. The Roman Household: A Sourcebook. Routledge, 1991. 937.6 G174r

Hopkins, Keith. Conquerors and Slaves. Cambridge, 1978.

Joshel, Sandra R. Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: a Study of the Occupational Inscriptions. Norman: U. of Oklahoma, 1993.

Kertzer, David I. Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present. New Haven: Yale, 1991.

King, A. "Diet in the Roman World." JRA 12 (1999) 168-202.

MacMullen, Ramsay. Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary. Princeton, 1990. 945.63201 M229c

MacMullen, Ramsey. Roman Social Relations, 50 B.C. to A.D. 284. Yale, 1981. 306.0945 M229r

Parkin, Tim G. Demography and Roman Society. Johns Hopkins, 1992.

Potter, D. S. ""Entertainers in the Roman Empire." In D.S. Potter and D.J. Mattingly, eds. Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor: Michigan, 1999. 256-325. 937.06 L626*

Shelton, Jo-Ann. As the Romans Did. A sourcebook in Roman Social History. New York: Oxford, 1987. 306.0945 Sh44a

Thompson, L.A. Romans and Blacks. U. of Oklahoma, 1989.

Vermeulle III, Cornelius C. Greek Sculpture and Roman Taste. U. of Michigan, 1988.

Veyne, Paul, ed. History of Private Life 1. From Pagan Rome to Byzantium. Belknap, 1987. 390.009 H629

ROMAN RELIGION

Beard, Mary, John North, Simon Price. Religions of Rome, Volume I - A History. Cambridge, 1998.

-----. Religions of Rome, Volume 2 - A Sourcebook, Cambridge, 1998.

Ferguson, John. The Religions of the Roman Empire. Aspects of Greek and Roman Life. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1970. 200.937 F381r

Fishwick, D. "The Development of Provincial Ruler Worship in the Western Roman Empire." ANRW II.16.2, Walter de Gruyter, 1978, pp. 1201-1253.

Harmon, D.P. "The Public Festivals of Rome." ANRW II.16.2, Walter de Gruyter, 1978, pp. 1440-1468.

-----. "The Family Festivals of Rome." ANRW II.16.2, Walter de Gruyter, 1978, pp. 1592-1603.

Henig, Martin, and King, Anthony. Pagan Gods and Shrines of the Roman Empire. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, Monograph 8. Oxford: Oxbow, 1986.

Helgeland, J. "Roman Army Religion." ANRW II.16.2, Walter de Gruyter, 1978, pp. 1470-1505.

MacMullen, Ramsay. Christianizing the Roman Empire. Yale University Press, 1984. 270.1 M229c

-----. Paganism in the Roman Empire. Yale University Press, 1981. 200.937 M229p

Orr, D.G. "Roman Domestic Religion: The Evidence of Household Shrines." ANRW II.16.1, Walter de Gruyter, 1978, pp. 1557-1591.

Scullard, H.H. Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1981. 394.26 Sc45f

Stambaugh, J.E. "The Functions of Roman Temples." ANRW II.16.1, Walter de Gruyter, 1978, pp. 554-608.

Turcan, Robert. Cults of the Roman Empire. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996.

Wardman, Alan. Religion and Statecraft among the Romans. London: Granada, 1982.

URBANIZATION

Grimal, Pierre. Roman Cities: Les villes romaines. Trans. G.M. Woloch. Together with a Descriptive Catalogue of Roman Cities. Wisconsin, 1983.

Owens, E.J. City in the Greek and Roman World. London: Routledge, 1992.

Ward-Perkins, J.B. Cities of Ancient Greece and Italy: Planning in Classical Antiquity. Penguin, 1974. 711.409 W219c

Wells, Peter. Farms, villages, and cities. Commerce and Urban Origins in Late Prehistoric Europe. Cornell, 1984.

ROMAN VILLAS AND AGRICULTURE

D'Arms, J.H. Romans on the Bay of Naples: a Social and Cultural Study of the Villas and their Owners from 150 B.C. to A.D. 400. Harvard, 1970. DG 90 .D25

Frayn, Joan M. "Wild and Cultivated Plants: a Note on the Peasant Economy of Ancient Italy". JRS 65, 1975.

McKay, Alexander G. Houses, Villas and Palaces in the Roman World. Cornell University Press, 1975.

Painter, K., ed. Roman Villas in Italy: Recent Excavations and Research. British Museum Occasional papers 24. London, 1980.

Patterson, John R. "Crisis: What Crisis? Rural Change and Urban Development in Imperial Appennine Italy." PBSR 55 (1987) 115-146.

Percival, J. The Roman Villa: An Historical Introduction. London, 1975.

Specific Sites

OSTIA

Hermansen, Gustav. Ostia: Aspects of Roman City Life. Univ. of Alberta Press, 1981. 937.6 H426

Meiggs, Russell. Roman Ostia. Oxford, 1973. DG 70 .08M4

PAESTUM

Pedley, John Griffiths. Paestum. Greeks and Romans in Southern Italy. Thames and Hudson, 1990.

POMPEII

Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Pompeii A.D. 79. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1978.

Connolly, Peter. Pompeii. Oxford, 1990. Cole Lib. Juvenile collection

Hales, Shelley. The Roman House and Social Identity. Cambridge, 2003.

Jashemski, W.F. The Gardens of Pompeii. New Rochelle, NY, 1979.

Jongman, Willem. The Economy and Society of Pompeii. Amsterdam: Geiben, 1988.

Kraus, T. Pompeii and Herculaneum. Harry Abrams, 1975.

Laurence, Ray. Roman Pompeii: Space and Society. London: Routledge, 1994.

Mau, August. Pompeii, its Life and Art. New Rochelle: Aristide Caratzaz, 1982.*

Richardson Jr., L. Pompeii, an Architectural History. Johns Hopkins, 1988. 722.7 R394p*

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Princeton, 1994. Important work discussing the integration of domestic space and social status.

Zanker, Paul. Pompeii: Public and Private Life. Harvard, 1999. Excellent.

ROME

Bender, Henry V. The Civilization of Ancient Rome: An Archaeological Perspective, Beginnings to Augustus. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. 937 B432c

Boatwright, Mary Taliaferro. Hadrian and the City of Rome. Lawrenceville, NJ: Princeton UP, 1987. 937.07 B63h

Dudley, D.R. Urbs Roma: A source book of classical texts on the city and its monuments. Phaidon, 1967. DG 68 .D83

Favro, Diane. The Urban Image of Augustan Rome. Cambridge, 1996.

Grant, M. The Roman Forum. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. 933.76 G767r

Jacobson, David M. "Hadrianic Architecture and Geometry." AJA 90 (1986) 69-85.

Lancaster, L.C. "Reconstructing the restorations of the Colosseum after the fire of 217." JRA 11 (1998) 146-174.

Lanciani, R. The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1900. Important source on early excavations in the city. 913.37 L22r

Lugli, G. The Classical Monuments of Rome: Volume one. The Zona Archaeologica. Translated by G. Bagnani. Libreria di Scienze e lettere, Rome, 1929. 913.37 L96c

McKay, Alexander G. Roma Antiqua: Latium and Etruria, a Sourcebook of Classical Texts. Univ. Press of America, 1986. 973 M192r

Nash, E. Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Hacker, 1980. OVERSIZE S126 722.7 N172p v.1-2*

Packer, James. "Trajan's Forum in 1989." AJA 96 (1992) 151-62.

Patterson, John. "The City of Rome: From Republic to Empire." JRS 82 (1992) 186-215.*

Pearson, John. Arena: the Story of the Colosseum. McGraw-Hill, 1973. 913.376 P317ar.

Platner, Samuel Ball. Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome. Allyn and Bacon, 1911. DG 63 P7 1911, cop.2.

----- and Ashby, Thomas. A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford, 1929; repr. Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1965.

Pollitt, J.J. Art of Rome c. 753 B.C.-A.D. 337: Sources and Documents. Cambridge, 1983.

Raaflaub, Kurt A. and Toher, Mark, eds. Between Republic and Empire. Berkeley: California, 1990.

Richardson, L. New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Johns Hopkins, 1992.*

Robinson, O.F. Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration. London: Routledge, 1992.

Rose, Charles Brian. "`Princes and Barbarians on the Ara Pacis." AJA 94 (1990) 453-67.

Simpson, C.J. "The Date of Dedication of the Temple of Mars Ultor". JRS 67 (1977) 91-94.

Steinby, Eva Margareta, ed.. Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Edizioni Quasar, 199

Taylor, Rabun. Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process. Cambridge, 2003. Good on the Baths of Caracalla, the Colosseum, and the Pantheon.

Ulrich, Roger B. "Julius Caesar and the Creation of the Forum Iulium." AJA 97 (1993) 49-80.

Van Deman, E.B. "The Sullan Forum." JRS 12 (1922) 1-31.

Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Trans. Alan Shapiro. Ann Arbor: Michigan, 1988.

SPERLONGA

Stewart, A.F. "To Entertain an Emperor: Sperlonga, Laokoon, and Tiberius at the Dinner-Table". JRS 67 (1977) 76-90.