Recommended Readings & Audio Visual Titles

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

Brown, Peter. The World of Late Antiquity: CE 150-750. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989.
Author’s note: Addresses continuity, transformation and no decline or fall

Cameron, Averil. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Author’s note: Addresses continuity, transformation and no decline or fall

Errington, R Malcolm. A History of the Hellenistic World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. Ltd., 2008.

Heather, Peter. The Fall of the Roman Empire. London: Macmillan, 2005.
Author’s note: Addresses decline and fall

Kuhrt, Amélie and Susan Sherwin-White, eds.  Hellenism in the East : Interaction of Greek and non-Greek civilizations from
 Syria to Central Asia after Alexander. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Maas, Michael, ed. Readings in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook.  London: Routledge. 2010.

MacMullen, Ramsay "Social Mobility and the Theodosian Code," Journal of Roman Studies 54 (1964): 49-53
Author’s note: Addresses the stereotype of rigidity of classes, arguing for late antique social mobility

Millar, Fergus. The Roman Near East, 27 BCE-CE 337. Cambridge, MA: Harvard. 1993.

Ward-Perkins, Bryan. The Fall of the Rome and the End of Civilization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Author’s note: Addresses decline and fall

FILMS & VIDEOS:

“The Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire.” The History Channel. Link to resource (accessed March 9, 2010).

“Engineering an Empire: The Age of Alexander.” The History Channel. Link to resource (accessed March 9, 2010).

“Rome: Engineering an Empire—Appian Way.” The History Channel. Link to resource (accessed March 9, 2010).

“Engineering an Empire: Greece—Tour Group.” The History Channel. Link to resource (accessed March 9, 2010).

SOUND FILES

Gibbon, Edward. “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1.” Link to resource (accessed March 9, 2010).

Online Resources

Walter E. Kaegi

Professor of History, University of Chicago
 

MAPS:

Maps of the Roman Empire, The DIR and ORB Ancient and Medieval Atlas, prepared by Christos Nussli, Link to resource (accessed March 5, 2010)
Author’s Note: On-line maps of the Roman Empire, give links to Maps of the Roman Empire [incl. 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 CE, ostensibly Europe, but include western Asia & Egypt.

The Roman Empire, Link to resource (accessed March 5, 2010)

Atlas for Ancient Warfare, Link to resource (accessed March 5, 2010)