Explores how artists and patrons at all social levels helped form and evolve the visual language of the Roman Empire.

Rome – Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines – was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultura

Western culture saw some of the most significant and innovative developments take place during the passage from antiquity to the middle ages. This stimulating n

This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experie