Ancient Rome/Bibliography

Encylopedias

Bunson, Matthew. Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire. Rev. ed. NY: Facts on File, 2002.

Maps and Atlases

Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press, 2000.

The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World by Richard J.A. Talbert (ed.), is a comprehensive atlas spanning the entire period and spatial spread of Greek and Roman civilization. The double-folio-sized atlas contains 102 color topographic maps (many double spreads) and covers a vast arc of territory, from the British Isles and the Azores eastward across Europe and North Africa, up the Nile valley and through the Near East to Afghanistan and western China. Temporally, it covers the period from 1,000 BC/BCE to AD/CE 650.

General Histories

Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray, (eds.)The Oxford History of the Roman World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991