Last updated: February 10, 2003

PRIMARY BACKGROUND SOURCES FOR A.D. 62: POMPEII

Adkins, L. and Adkins, R. A. (1994).  Handbook to life in ancient Rome. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bernstein, F. (2000). Classical living: Reconnecting with the rituals for ancient Rome. San Francisco: Harper.

Casson, L. (1998). Everyday life in ancient Rome, revised and expanded edition. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Connolly, P. (1998). Pompeii. NY: Oxford University Press.

Deiss, J. J. (1989). Herculaneum: Italy's buried treasure. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum.

Doxiadis, E. (1995). The mysterious Fayum portraits: Faces from ancient Egypt. NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Hale, W. H. (Ed.) (1966). The Horizon book of ancient Rome. NY: American Heritage Publishing Company/ Doubleday.

Hornblower, S. and Spawforth, A. (Eds.) (1998). The Oxford companion to classical civilization. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kebric, R. (1997). The Roman people (second edition). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.

Nappo, S. (1998). Pompeii: Guide to the lost city. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Pliny the Elder (1991): Natural history: A selection. London: Penguin Group.

Pliny the Younger (1969). The letters of the Younger Pliny, translated with an introduction by Betty Radice. London: Penguin.

Propertius: The poems.  (new translation by Guy Lee, 1994).  Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Shelton, J. (1998). As the Romans did: A sourcebook in Roman social history, second edition. NY: Oxford University Press.

Tacitus (1982). The annals of Tacitus, translated by A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. )

Veyne, P. (1997). The Roman Empire. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Wallace-Hadril, A. (1994). Houses and society in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

OTHER GENERAL BACKGROUND SOURCES

Boardman, J., Griffin, J., and Murray, O. (1997). The Roman world: The Oxford history of the classical world. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Liberati, A. M. and Bourbon, F. (1996). Ancient Rome: History of a civilization that ruled the world.  NY: Stewart, Tabori and Chang.

Time-Life Books (1997). What life was like when Rome ruled the world: The Roman Empire, 100 BC—AD 200. Time Life Books.

ANCIENT LITERATURE

Knox, B. (Ed.) (1993). The Norton book of classical literature. NY: W. W. Norton.

Petronius (1965). The Satryicon and the fragments. UK: Penguin Books.

Seneca: Radice, B. (Ed.) (1969). Seneca: Letters from a stoic. London: Penguin.

Seneca: Cooper, J. W. and Procope, J. F. (Eds.) (1995). Seneca: Moral and political essays.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

ARTS, CRAFTS, DRESS

Donato, G. & Seefried, M. (1989). The fragrant past: Perfumes of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (Emory Museum of Art and Archaeology).

Fleming, S. J. (1997). Roman glass: Reflections of everyday life. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Hanfman, G. M. A. (1975). Roman art: A modern survey of the art of Imperial Rome. New York: W. W. Norton.

Henig, M. (Ed.) (1983). A handbook of Roman art.  London: Phaidon Press, Ltd.

Hope, T. (1962). Costumes of the Greeks and Romans. NY: Dover Publications.

Kahler, H. (1965). The art of Rome and her empire.  NY: Greystone.

Ogdon, J. (1992). Ancient jewellery. University of California Press/ British Museum.

Ramage, N. H. and Ramage, A. (1995). Roman art, second edition.  London: Laurence King.

Steele, P. (1997). Clothes and crafts in Roman times. Parsippany, NJ: Dillon Press.

Time/Life Books. (1991).The domestic world. New York: Time/Life.

ATLASES

Cornell, T. and Matthews, J. (1994). Atlas of the Roman world. NY: Facts on File, Inc.

Hayward, J. (1998). Historical atlas of the classical world, 500 BC to AD 600. New York: Barnes and Noble.

Ptolemy, C. (1991). The geography. New York: Dover.

Scarre, C. (1995). The Penguin historical atlas of ancient Rome. London: Penguin.

DAILY LIFE

Carcopino, J. (1940).  Daily life in ancient Rome. Translated from the French by E. O. Lorimer.  New Haven: Yale University Press.

Cowell, F. R. (1980). Life in ancient Rome. NY: Perigee.

Dupont, F. (1999). Daily life in ancient Rome. UK: Blackwell Publishers.

Fagan, G. G. (1999). Bathing in public in the Roman world. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Hope, T. (1962). Costumes of the Greeks and Romans. New York: Dover.

Johnston, H. W. (1903). The private lives of Romans. NY: Scott, Foresman and Co.

Joshel, S. R. (1992). Work, identity, and legal status at Rome. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.

Matz, D. (2002). Daily life of the ancient Romans. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Potter, D. S. and Mattingly, D. J. (Eds.) (1999). Life, death, and entertainment in the Roman empire.  Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Toner, J. P. (1995). Leisure and ancient Rome. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

FOOD AND COOKING

Apicius, Cooking and dining in Imperial Rome, edited and translated by J. D. Vehling (Chicago, 1936; New York 1977).

Giacosa, I. G. (1992). A taste of ancient Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Smith, J. (1989). The frugal gourmet cooks three ancient cuisines:  China, Greece, Rome. Camp Hill, PA: Book of the Month Club.

GARDENS /HERBS/ BIRDS

Farrar, L. (1998). Ancient Roman gardens. UK: Sutton Publishing, Ltd.

Jashemski, W. F. (1999). A Pompeiian herbal. Austin: University of Texas Press.

LOVE /SEX

Grimal, P. (1967). Love in ancient Rome  (translated from the French by A. Train, Jr.)

NY: Crown Publishers.

Hallet, J. P. and Skinner, M. B. (Eds.) (1997). Roman sexualities. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Hunt, M. F. (1959). The natural history of love. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Kiefer, O. (1993). Sexual life in ancient Rome. New York: Dorset Press.

Miles, C. with Norwich, J. J. (1997). Love in the ancient world.  NY: St. Martin's Press.

Tannahill, R. (1982). Sex in history. NY: Stein and Day.

MEDICINE

Booth, M. (1996). Opium: A history.  New York: St. Martin’s Griffin.

Cartwright, F. F. with Biddiss, M. D. (1972). Disease and history.  NY: Dorset Press.

Jackson, R. (1988). Doctors and diseases in the Roman empire. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

Manjo, G. (1975). The healing hand: Man and wound in the ancient world. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Margotta, R. (1996). The history of medicine. NY: Smithmark.

McNeill, W. H. (1977). Plagues and peoples. NY: Anchor Books.

MISCELLANEOUS

Bremmer, J. & Roodenburg, H. (Eds.) (1991). A cultural history of gesture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Solomon, J. (2001). The ancient world in the cinema. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Synaulia:  a  CD that recreates what ancient Roman music might have sounded like, based upon the instruments seen in paintings.

Balsdon, J. P. (1979). Romans and aliens.  Chapel Hill: UNC Press.

POMPEII/ HERCULANEUM

Brilliant, R. (1979). Pompeii A. D. 79: The treasure of rediscovery.  NY: Potter, Inc.

Etienne, R. (1992). Pompeii: The day a city died. (translated from the French  by Caroline Palmer). New York: Harry N. Abrams.

Grant, M. (1971).  Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum. New York: MacMillan.

Laurence, R. (1996). Roman Pompeii: space and society. London: Routledge.

Lessing, E. and Varone, A. (1996). Pompeii. Paris: Editions Pierre Terrail.

Lukas, J. and Wheeler, M. (1966). Pompeii and Herculaneum.  London: Spring Books.

Ward-Perkins, J. and Claridge, A. (1978).  Pompeii AD 79.  Boston: Museum of Fine Arts.

Zanker, P. (1998). Pompeii: Public and private life.  (translated by D. L. Schneider). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

RELIGION

Adkins, L. and Adkins, R. A. (1996). Dictionary of Roman religion. New York: Facts on File.

MacMullen, R. (1981). Paganism in the Roman empire. New Haven: Yale University Press.

SLAVERY

Barrow, R. H. (originally published in 1928, republished in 1996). Slavery in the Roman empire. Barnes & Noble Books.

Bradley, K. (1994). Slavery and society at Rome: Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge University Press.

Fitzgerald, W. (2000). Slavery and the Roman literary imagination. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

TECHNOLOGIES AND TRAVEL

Casson, L. (1974). Travel in the ancient world. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

James, P. and Thorpe, N. (1994). Ancient inventions. New York: Ballantine Books.

Perrottet, A. (2002). Route 66 A. D.: On the trail of ancient Roman tourists. NY: random House.

VIRTUAL ARCHAEOLOGY/ RECREATIONS

Connolly, P. and Dodge, H. (1998). The ancient city: Life in classical Athens and Rome. NY: Oxford University Press.

Forte, M. and Siliotti, A. (1997). Virtual archaeology: Re-creating ancient worlds. NY: Harry N. Abrams.

MaCaulay, D. (1974). City: A story of Roman planning and construction. NY: Houghton Mifflin. (Also, "Motel of the mysteries")

Perring, S. and Perring, D. (1991). Then and now: The wonders of the ancient world brought to life in vivid see-through reconstructions. NY: MacMillan.

WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY

Fantham, E., Foley, H. P., Kampen, N. B., Pomeroy, S. B. & Shapiro, H. A. (1994). Women in the classical world. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hemelrijk, E. (1999). Matrona Docta: Educated women in the Roman elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna. London: Routledge.

Kleiner, D. E. E., and Matheson, S. B. (1996). I, Claudia: Women in ancient Rome. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery.