Roman Empire

S. G. F. Brandon describes how the Roman legate faced the problems of a Jewish Revolt.

In the second century A.D. North Africa played an important role in imperial Roman life

2000 years ago, a Roman Governor of Judaea made a decision that has lent his name to posterity.

J.B. Whitwell describes how a series of excavations since the Second World War has revealed much important detail about Lindum Colonia.

C.E. Carrington describes how, from London to York, and under a succession of Roman Governors, the great road to the north was built during the first century A.D.

Michael Grant describes how, during the Roman and Byzantine ages, the co-existence of good and evil in the world led to a variety of dualist religious beliefs.

Towards the end of the fourth century, writes David Jones, a Spanish emperor from Britain and his Welsh empress held their spendid court in a city on the Moselle.

Geoffrey Powell offers a study of everyday Imperial military life.

Anthony Birley describes how Septimius grappled manfully with the problem of governing that great monster, the Roman Empire.

Under the far-sighted rule of the Five Good Emperors, writes Anthony Birley, the Roman world enjoyed a period of unexampled prosperity and peace.