Pomeroy - Roman social history: a sourcebook

This book contains many of the sources that a student in Roman social history will need in a single handy volume.

Tim G. Parkin and Arthur J. Pomeroy have assembled here a wide range of ancient texts in their own translations, ranging from the essential to the little-known and previously unavailable, focusing on the late republic and the first two centuries AD. Arranged thematically, all sources are quick and easy to find, are preceded by a readable introduction, and are accompanied by notes that guide and advise the student. The authors also provide summaries of previous scholarship in the field with bibliographies that will open the reader to further resources.

Rather than concentrating on the elite, a tiny fraction of Roman society, Parkin and Pomeroy also include material on the Roman peasantry, workers, and slaves, and view it all through a modern sociological lens: it explains Roman society in terms of its power structures. Their notes incorporate demography and criminology among many other contemporary disciplines to build a complete picture of the sociology of ancient Rome.

Topics include:

• Social class
• Family
• Education
• Economy
• Leisure and games.

Including maps, chronologies, and useful references on measures and currency, this book is the complete introductory resource for students of Roman social history, and presents with clarity and vividness a rich and diverse society.

Tim G. Parkin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester.

Arthur J. Pomeroy is Associate Professor of Classics at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

ROMAN SOCIAL HISTORY

A sourcebook

Tim G. Parkin and
Arthur J. Pomeroy

First published 2007
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Roman social history: a sourcebook/edited by Tim Parkin and Arthur J. Pomeroy.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Social history To 500. 2. Rome History. 3. Rome Social conditions. I. Parkin, Tim G. II. Pomeroy, Arthur John, 1953
HN10.R7R66 2007
937 dc22
2007007663

ISBN 0-203-96084-X Master e-book ISBN

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This collection is based on materials collected by the authors to assist in the teaching of Roman social history in New Zealand and Australia over the last two decades. In particular, we wish to acknowledge the influence of our former teacher at Victoria University of Wellington, Alex Scobie. Alexs knowledge of the ancient world, particularly the world of folklore and the novel, and of the abuse of ancient models in the modern world has been a continuing inspiration to his students. Many of the readings in this collection were originally selected by Alex and we hope that their wider distribution will be a small tribute to his work.

The translations are the work of the authors, but obviously build on the work of numerous predecessors. Arthur Pomeroy would like to thank the PBRF fund of the School of Art History, Classics, and Religious Studies at Victoria University for enabling him to employ a student assistant as the project approached completion; the FHSS Research Committee for assistance for proofreading and indexing; and also Anneliese Parkin and Robert Knapp. Tim Parkin thanks Roslynne Bell, Jane Gardner, Siobhan ORourke and April Pudsey.

We would also like to thank our students in social history and Latin language classes as well as supervisees over the years for their constant probing and questions that have enabled us to revise and improve this material.

MAPS

The Roman empire in the age of Trajan

Source: From Martin Goodman, The Roman World 44BCAD180 (1997: 767).

The city of Rome in the second century AD

Source: From R.J.A. Talbert, Atlas of Classical History (1988: 121).

KEY TO MAP 2

Temples

1 Divus Traianus.

2 Mars Ultor.

3 Venus Genetrix.

4 Minerva.

5 Vediovis.

6 Concordia.

7 Divus Vespasianus.

8 Saturnus.

9 Ianus?

10 Castores.

11 Divus Iulius.

12 Divus Antoninus.

13 Vesta.

14 Iuturna.

15 Penates (the form indicated ispost-Caracallan).

16 Iuturna or Iuno Curritis.

17 Fortuna Huiusce Diei.

18 Feronia.

19 Lares Permarini.

20 Hercules Musarum.

21 Iuppiter Stator.

22 Iuno Regina.