Encyclopedia—Rome, city, Italy

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Ancient Rome

General histories of ancient Rome are countless. Among the ancient histories, that of Livy is the only comprehensive work. Other great Roman historians were Julius Caesar, Tacitus, Suetonius, Polybius, Dio Cassius, and Josephus. The works of Mommsen and Edward Gibbon are monumental. General works on ancient Rome include those of J. B. Bury, Guglielmo Ferrero, Tenney Frank, and Michael Rostovtzeff.

See F. F. Abbott, History and Description of Roman Political Institutions (3d ed. 1911, repr. 1963); Jerome Carcopino, Daily Life in Ancient Rome (tr. 1940, repr. 1962); R. H. Barrow, The Romans (1949, repr. 1964); C. G. Starr, Civilization and the Caesars (1954, repr. 1965); Max Cary, History of Rome (2d ed. 1957); H. H. Scullard, A History of the Roman World (3d ed. 1961); E. T. Salmon, A History of the Roman World (6th ed. 1968); F. W. Wallbank, Awful Revolution: The Decline of the Roman Empire in the West (2d ed. 1969); J. P. V. D. Balsdon, Rome: The Study of an Empire (1970); P. A. Brunt, Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic (1970); Donald Dudley, The Romans (1970); M. T. W. Arnheim, The Senatorial Aristocracy in the Later Roman Empire (1972); Jacques Heurgon, The Rise of Rome to 264 B.C. (1973); Georgina Masson, A Concise History of Republican Rome (1973); Albino Garzetti, From Tiberius to the Antonines (1974); Allan Massie, The Caesars (1984); Peter Garnsey and Richard Saller, The Roman Empire: Economy, Society, and Culture (1987); Ernest Nash, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome (2 vol., 1989); T. J. Cornell, Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (1000–264 B.C.) (1995).

Medieval Rome

See Ferdinand Gregorovius, History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages (8 vol. in 13, 1903–12; repr. 1968); Alain de Boüard, Le Régime politique et les institutions de Rome au moyen âge (1920); Peter Llewellyn, Rome in the Dark Ages (1970); Ferdinand Gregorovius, Rome and Medieval Culture (1973).

Renaissance and Modern Rome

See bibliographies at Renaissance and Italy.

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