Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, Ancient Rome: Infographics uses data visualization to tell the epic tale of the city of Rome and its empire. Every aspect of the Roman world is explored, from the birth of the Republic to the imperial dynasties, from the political and legal system to Rome's military might. Drawing on international sources, this complex history is made clear and comprehensible to modern readers, while offering the insights and rigour that historians demand. Original, accessible and fascinating, Ancient Rome: Infographics will delight history buffs, graphic design aficionados, and everyone seeking an overview of a civilization that shaped the world.

Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to the English word religion. In The Gods, the State, and the Individual, John Scheid confronts these and other challenges directly. If Roman religious practice has long been dismissed as a cynical or naive system of borrowed structures unmarked by any true piety, Scheid contends that this is the result of a misplaced expectation that the basis of religion lies in an individual's personal and revelatory relationship with his or her god. He argues that when viewed in the light of secular history as opposed to Christian theology, Roman religion emerges as a legitimate phenomenon in which rituals, both public and private, enforced a sense of communal, civic, and state identity. Since the 1970s, Scheid has been one of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly understanding of ancient Roman religion. The Gods, the State, and the Individual presents a translation of Scheid's work that chronicles the development of his field-changing scholarship.

The fundamental gesture of weaving in "The Craft of Zeus" is the interlacing of warp and woof described by Plato in "The Statesman"--an interweaving signifying the union of opposites. From rituals symbolizing--even fabricating--the cohesion of society to those proposed by oracles as a means of propitiating fortune; from the erotic and marital significance of weaving and the woven robe to the use of weaving as a figure for language and the fabric of the text, this lively and lucid book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek and Roman thought--a concept that has persisted, woof and warp crossing again and again, as the fabric of human history has unfolded.

L'une des caracteristiques de la vie civique de l'Antiquite classique consiste en l'installation definitive de concitoyens dans d'autres contrees, sans perdre tous les liens avec la cite d'origine, Rome a aussi connu et pratique la colonisation, avec ses particularites et ses contraintes, concue comme un moyen d'implanter definitivement la domination romaine dans des territoires conquis, par l'installation d'anciens soldats. Instruments de la volonte de Rome de s'etablir durablement, les colonies furent fondees sur tout le territoire de l'empire et y affirmerent sa presence. L'histoire meme de la colonisation montre que l'aspect purement civil l'emporta, apres des siecles, sur l'aspect militaire, puisqu'a partir du IIe s. ap. J.-C, le titre de colonie finit par etre concede comme un honneur et un privilege, comportant de nombreux avantages a des collectivites qui n'etaient plus formees de veterans. C'est le theme, relance par des decouvertes recentes, que la XVe Rencontre franco-italienne sur l'epigraphie du monde romain a retenu pour sa session d'octobre 2008 a Paris. Les etudes reunies ici analysent ainsi les constitutions legales, les modes de peuplement, l'evolution demographique, le developpement politique des colonies, les phenomenes d'acculturation. C'est une autre facon d'ecrire l'histoire romaine.