Preface Lis of Figures Part I. Building an Empire 1. "Contests of the Powerful"; Appian's Civil War 2. A Roman senator mourns his wife; "Laudatio Turiae" 3. Vitruvius, On Architecture, Preface & Introduction 4. Past and future in Vergil's Aeneid; the battle of Actium 5. The Authorised Version; Augustus' Res Gestae 6. The Secular Games: 1. Zosimus, New History 2. Inscriptions on the conduct of the games 3. Q. Horatius Flaccus, Carmen Saeculare 7. An admirer of Tiberius; Velleius Paterculus, History of Rome 8. An embassy to Caligula; Philo, Legatio ad Gaium 9. Victims of tyranny; the deaths of Seneca and Lucan 10. Episodes from the last years of Nero: 1. Tiridates at Rome 2. The Grand Tour of Hellas 3. The Liberation of Hellas 11. Plautus Silvanus, legate of Moesia Part II. Pax Romana: "A Polite and Powerful Empire" 12. The life and death of the elder Pliny 13. The Discourses of Epictetus 14. Scenes from Metropolitan Life: Epigrams of Martial 15. Civic Life at Ephesus: 1. Duties of the proconsul 2. A wealthy professor 3. A disruptive visitor 4. Inscriptions of Ephesus 5. The Plancii of Perge: a prominent family of Asia Minor 16. Public life and occupations in Artemidorus' Dream-Book 17. A career choice; Lucian's Dream 18. Labour costs in Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices: 1. Trades and Professions 2. Prices of slaves 19. Games and entertainments: 1. Epitaphs of gladiators 2. A record-breaking charioteer; G. Appuleius Diocles 20. A visit to the country 21. Travelling to court in the Digest 22. Lucian, The Ship: 1. The Ship 2. Letter from a crewman 3. The sailing season 23. Life in the Armed Forces: 1. A military exploit 2. Hadrian addresses the troops 3. A tour of inspection; Arrian's Circumnavigation of the Black Sea 4. A legionary surveyor and engineer 5. Joining the navy; recruits write home 6. Retirement from the army; a military diploma 7. A soldier makes his will 24. Religion, Philosophy, Science: 1. Apuleius & the goddess Isis 2. Aelius Aristides & the god Asklepios 3. A Chapter of Accidents: Fronto and Marcus Caesar 4. Galen's Prognosis 5. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "To Himself" 25. Crime and punishment in the Digest 26. A Hearing before the Proconsul: Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs Part III. Rising to the Challenge 27. A witness to his age; the Roman History of Cassius Dio: 1. The last days of Commodus 2. The end of Dio's History 28. The Great King blows the trumpet 29. The Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle 30. The Canonical Letter of Gregory Thaumaturgus 31. A philosopher's circle; Eunapius' Life of Porphyry 32. The Herulian attack on Athens 33. The Martyrdom of Cyprian 34. Christian persecutions in the papyri 35. Maximinus and the Christians 36. Legal Proceedings before the consularis Numidiae Part IV. A New Empire 37. Diary of an official 38. Cities of Constantine (1), Constantinople, "New Rome": 1. Zosimus, New History 2. Chronicon Paschale 39. Cities of Constantine (2), Rome: the Liber Pontificalis 40. Cities of Constantine (3), Jerusalem: the church of the Holy Sepulchre 41. Orcistus and Nacolia: a question of civic status 42. Sopatros and Ablabius; the philosopher and the politician 43. Tribulations of an army officer; the Abinnaeus Archive 44. On Their Majesties' Service 1. The emperor restores a reputation 2. Obelisks' tales 45. Warfare and Romance on the Tigris frontier 1. An officer in the field 2. The wife of Craugasius 46. An adventure in the desert; Jerome, Life of Malchus 47. Julian and the Platonists 48. Letter to a Priest 49. A letter from Hierapolis 50. The surrender of Nisibis: 1. Ammianus Marcellinus 25.8.13-9.6 2. Ephraim, Third Hymn against Julian 51. Pagan and Christian Virtues in the Roman Aristocracy 1. Vettius Agorius Praetextatus 2. Sextus Petronius Probus 52. The last days of Monica in Augustine Confessions 9.23(33) 53. Their Majesties' Voice; Selections from the Theodosian Code Part V. Facing the Future 54. The life & work of Ulfila: 1. Philostorgius, Ecclesiastical History 2.5 2. Jordanes, Getica 267 3. The Letter of Auxentius 55. The origin of the Huns in Jordanes (Getica 121-133) 56. The Eucharisticon of Paulinus of Pella 57. Rutilius Namatianus, De Reditu Suo 58. Claudius Postumus Dardanus and the City of God 59. At the Royal Court of Attila: 1. An embassy to Attila 2. Attila's banquet 3. The death of Attila 60. The end of Roman Noricum; extracts from the Life of Severinus 61. Public Business (1): "Gesta amplissimi senatus" 62. Public Business (2): The Council of Chalcedon 63. A Hall of Mirrors: Ostrogoth and Roman at the court of Ravenna: 1. Cassiodorus' Variae 2. The Consolation of Philosophy 64. Emperor and people at Byzantium: the Nika Riot 1. Procopius Wars 1.24-1-7 2. "Acts against Calapodius" 3. Malalas, Chronicle s.a. 532 4. Chronicon Paschale 65. Confirmation of the Digest 66. Recovering the west in Procopius 1. Syracuse (Wars 3.14.1-17) 2. Lepcis Magna (Buildings 6.4.1-10) 3 Rome (Wars 5.18.6-29) Part VI. Epilogue: Ruins of a Roman Landscape 67. The lost pleasures of a hot bath 68. Venetian origins? 69. Accident in a derelict amphitheatre 70. "The Works of Giants" 71. "Maumbury Rings"
