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A second edition of the author's "Christianity and the Roman government," with six additional essays. cf. Pref. ; Bibliographical footnotes. ; Christianity and the Roman government.--Legions in the Pannonian rising.--Movements of the legions.--The provincial "concilia".--Imperium consolare or proconsulare.--Plutarch, Tacitus, and Suetonius on Galba and Otho.--A Bodleian ms. of Pliny's letters to Trajan. ; Mode of access: Internet.

A second edition of the author's "Christianity and the Roman government", with six additional essays. cf. Pref. ; Bibliographical footnotes. ; Christianity and the Roman government.--Legions in the Pannonian rising.--Movements of the legions.--The provincial "concilia".--Imperium consolare or proconsulare.--Plutarch, Tacitus, and Suetonius, on Galba and Otho.--A Bodleian ms. of Pliny's letters to Trajan. ; Mode of access: Internet.

A second edition of the author's "Christianity and the Roman government," with six additional essays. cf. Preface. ; Bibliographical foot-notes. ; Christianity and the Roman government.--Legions in the Pannonian rising.--Movements of the legions.--The provincial "concilia."--Imperium consolare or proconsulare.--Plutarch, Tacitus, and Suetonius, on Galba and Otho.--A Bodleian ms. of Pliny's letters to Trajan. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Introduction : Keith Hopkins : sighting shots / Christopher Kelly -- Contraception in the Roman Empire -- A textual emendation in a fragment of Musonius Rufus : a note on contraception ; afterword / Caroline Vout -- On the probable age structure of the Roman population -- Graveyards for historians ; afterword / Walter Scheidel -- Economic growths and towns in antiquity ; afterword / Neville Morley -- Taxes and trade in the Roman Empire (200 BC-AD 400) ; afterword / Willem M. Jongman -- Models, ships and staples ; afterword / Peter Fibiger Bang and Mamoru Ikeguchi -- From violence to blessing : symbols and rituals in ancient Rome ; afterword / Ja' Elsner -- Slavery in classical antiquity ; afterword / Keith Bradley -- Conquest by book ; afterword / William Harris -- Novel evidence for Roman slavery ; afterword / Catharine Edwards -- Christian number and its implications ; afterword / Kate Cooper -- The political economy of the Roman Empire ; afterword / Greg Woolf -- How to be a Roman emperor : an autobiography ; afterword / Mary Beard

In the study of Roman money Theodore Mommsen remains 135 years after his work a towering figure, more pragmatic than theoretical in his economics, yet still sound. He saw the politics in monetary history, and especially its connection with the strength of the state. His view is more penetrating than MV = PT, fashionable in twentieth-century scholarship on Rome. And it is better economics than offered by the Polanyi School as the alternative line of analysis. The Polanyists infer an absence of a Roman monetary system from the failure of some part to be as sophisticated as the best. On the contrary, the Roman monetary system does not look so different from that of Europe since Mommsen wrote, uneven in its use of monetary devices, but sensibly so.

Includes the author's "Christianity and the Roman government," with six additional essays. cf. Pref. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Christianity and the Roman government.--Legions in the Pannonian rising.--Movements of the legions.--The provincial "concilia."--Imperium consulare or proconsulare.--Plutarch, Tacitus, and Suetonius, on Galba and Otho.--A Bodleian ms. of Pliny's letters to Trajan. ; Mode of access: Internet.

I. The armies and frontier relations of the German provinces.--II. The four emperors' year.--III. A military game of chess. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Historians have long ranked the Roman takeover of Ptolemaic Egypt both as a major and far‐reaching event in contemporary geopolitical power relations and as a pivotal moment in Egyptian and Roman history and culture. At the same time, however, as a Roman province, they also considered the former Ptolemaic kingdom to have fundamentally differed from all other Roman provinces. The degree to which the Roman takeover of the Nile Valley entailed continuity or change is evidently an important factor when attempting to define the specificity of Egypt as a Roman province. On the whole, it appears that "the changes introduced by the Romans were at least as important as the continuities". Egypt was the origin of many remarkable products and developments that swept through the Roman Empire, including the dissemination of popular deities like Isis and Sarapis and of romantic notions of a bucolic lifestyle set in Nilotic landscapes. ; Research for this contribution was carried out in the context of the author's fellowship no. UMO2016/23/P/HS3/04141 of the National Science Centre, Poland. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie SkłodowskaCurie grant agreement No 665778.