Reflections on power, masculinity, belief, and the landscapes of an ancient empire
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Power, Politics, and Imperial Rule
Date from 117 until 138 AD Marie-Lan Nguyen Public Domain
Essays on emperors, succession, governance, civil wars, and the machinery of Roman authority.
- Lucius Pedanius Secundus: How Rome Used Law and Tradition to Protect the Master’s Life
- Lucius Pedanius Secundus: How Rome Used Law and Tradition
- Power, Silence and the Edge of Control: The Deaths of Hostius Quadra and Lucius Pedanius Secundus
- The Emperor Becames a God: Belief, Pretence, and the Psychology of Power
- The Emperor’s Body and the Bodies Beneath Him
- Galba: Rise to Power, Sexual Reputation and Masculinity in Ancient Rome
- Cassius Dio and Historical Reliability: the Politics of Trauma
Masculinity, Identity, and the Performance of Power
Essays exploring Roman ideals of manhood, honour, status, violence, citizenship, and the ways power was embodied, displayed, and contested.
- Domestic Servitude in Ancient Rome: the Boundaries of Male Intimacy
- The Price of a Slave: Cost, Skill, and Geography in the Roman World
- Slavery and the Roman Economy: Labour, Power, and the Machinery of Empire
- Sex, Sexuality, and Roman Confusion
- Sexual Health in Ancient Rome: Disease, Desire, and the Fragility of the Body
- Male Prostitution in Ancient Rome: What We Really Know from the Sources
- Male Prostitution in Ancient Rome: the Human Cost
- Euphemism: How Roman Writers Hid Sexual Violence against Men
- Roman Life: Rome’s Engines of Desensitisation
- Polyamory for Men in Imperial Rome – Coming Soon
Life Across the Provinces
Essays on daily life, towns, farms, trade, cultural blending, and the lived experience of Rome far from the capital.
- How Roman Medicine Developed and the Key Physicians
- How hygienic were the Roman baths
- How to Survive a Day in the Roman Arena
- How to Behave at a Roman Dinner Party
- Disability in the Roman Empire: Social Attitudes, Law, Religion and Everyday Life
- Romanisation: Cornwall and Wales
- How to Behave at a Roman Dinner Party
- How to Survive a Day in the Roman Arena
- Private Balnea in Roman Britain: Heat, Scent and Quiet Luxury – Coming Soon
- Inside the Roman Baths: How Ordinary Men Socialised and Survived – Coming Soon
Frontiers, Forts, and the Edges of Empire
Essays on borderlands, military life, frontier communities, and the landscapes where Rome met the outside world.
Belief, Ritual, and the Uncanny
Essays on gods, cults, superstition, omens, ancestor practices, and the meeting of Roman and local beliefs.
- Limentinus: the Quiet God of Thresholds
- Limentinus: Roman God of Thresholds and Transition
- The Pomerium: Rome’s Sacred Boundary
- Vertumnus and Pomona: Love, Deception, and the Untrustworthy Gods of Rome
- Antinous: Death on the Nile
- After Antinous: Death, Power and the Making of an Imperial God
- The Nature of Roman Religion: An Exploration
- Priapus and the Priapea: Roman Male Sexuality, Power and Rural Masculinity – Coming Soon
- Priapus: A Rustic God of Fertility in the Roman World – Coming Soon
- Ambient Priapism: How Slavery and Sex Shaped the Roman Male Mind -coming Soon
Movement, Roads, and the Shape of the Empire
Essays on travel, sea routes, mapping, communication, and the physical experience of moving through Roman space.
War, Crisis, and Transformation
Essays on invasions, gore, rebellions, plagues, economic shocks, reforms, and the slow unravelling of imperial power.
- Damnatio ad Bestias: the Roman Appetite for Gore
- Narcissus: The Wrestler Who Killed Commodus
- The Story of Caesar, Slavery and the Pirates of the Mediterranean
Art, Writing, and the Roman Imagination
Essays on literature, portraiture, inscriptions, public art, and the stories Rome told about itself.
- The Satyricon: Sex, Slavery and Everyday Life in Rome
- Juvenal, Hypocrisy, and Male Prostitution in Imperial Rome
- Euphemism: How Roman Writers Hid Sexual Violence against Men
- Scribonius Largus: The Compassionate Physician of Claudius’ Court
- Companions in Arms: Nisus and Euryalus
- Vedius Pollio: man eating eels, cruelty, luxury and Roman moralising – Coming Soon
- The Fabulae: A Curious Roman Handbook of Greek Myth – Coming Soon
- Juvenal’s Satire 9: Sex, Secrets and the Price of Roman Masculinity – Coming Soon
Rome and the Wider World
Essays on diplomacy, trade beyond the frontiers, encounters with other cultures, and Rome’s shifting place in global history.
- Romanitas: The Spirit of Rome
- Romanisation: Cornwall and Wales
- Roman Britain: Isle of Wight. Trade, Contact and Archaeology
- Views on Homosexuality in the Roman World – Coming Soon