AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Roman Empire.

Arranged alphabetically by author. See also these separate pages:

Classical Authors | Classical Studies | Inscriptions & Epigraphy | Roman Africa | Late Roman History

W. T. Arnold.

The Roman System of Provincial Administration to the Accession of Constantine the Great. By W. T. Arnold, M.A. New edition, revised from the author’s notes by E. S. Shuckburgh, Litt.D. With a map. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1906.
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Third edition, revised by E. S. Bouchier, M.A., 1914.
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E. S. Bouchier.

E. S. Bouchier, a classicist who wrote a series of books on Roman provinces, has his own page.

J. B. Bury

J. B. Bury has his own page.

L. C. Crochet.

La Toilette chez les Romaines au temps des empereurs. Étude des principaux Objets de Toilette en os trouvés dans les fouilles de la Nécropole de Trion & du coteau de Fourvière. Par L. C. Crochet. Douze planches photolithographiques hors texte. Lyon: Sézanne Frères, 1888. —A short but very useful treatise, with many footnotes, on Roman women’s grooming and finery and the cosmetics and utensils they used, followed by a dozen photographs crowded with Roman toiletries.

Sir Samuel Dill.

Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. By Samuel Dill. London: MacMillan and Co., 1925. —This is the second edition, originally printed in 1905.

Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire. By Samuel Dill, M.A. Second edition, revised. London: Macmillan and Co., 1910.
1933 printing, apparently identical to 1910.

Roman Society in Gaul in the Merovingian Age. By the late Sir Samuel Dill, M.A. London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. —“This work, which occupied the last years of the life of the late Sir Samuel Dill, was virtually finished at the time of his death on May 26, 1924. It was intended by the author to complete a trilogy of studies of Roman Society, of which the two former, Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius and Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire are well known.”

Ludwig Friedländer

Roman Life and Manners Under the Early Empire. By Ludwig Friedländer. Authorized translation of the seventh and revised edition of the Sittengeschichte Roms. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1908]. —Volume I is not indicated as the first of a series; Volumes II and III state “in three volumes,” but include a note on the back of the title page that “The Author’s Excursions and Notes will be published in a fourth volume.”

Vol. I. Translated by Leonard A Magnus. —Includes a very detailed chronological table.

Vol. II. Translated by J. H. Freese and Leonard Magnus.

Vol. III. Translated by J. H. Freese.

Vol. IV. Appendices and Notes from the Sixth Edition by A. B. Gough. 1913.

Edward Gibbon.

Edward Gibbon has his own page.

Thomas Hodgkin.

Thomas Hodgkin, author of Italy and Her Invaders, has his own page.

James S. Reid.

The Municipalities of the Roman Empire. By James S. Reid, Litt.D. Cambridge, 1913.
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Sir John Edwin Sandys.

A Companion to Latin Studies. Edited by Sir John Edwin Sandys. Second edition. Cambridge, 1913. —A huge fat book full of chronological tables and information on every aspect of Roman culture up to and beyond the end of the Empire.