HIST 4304: Riddles of Rome: Books

Listed below are search terms for you to use when searching for resources about Rome.

• "Ancient Rome"
• "Rome" or "Romans"
• "Eternal City"
• "Roman Republic"
• "Democracy"
• "Etruscans"
• "Romulus"
• "Remus"
• "Tiber River"
• "Roman Forum"
• "Colosseum"
• "Plebs" or "Plebeian"
• "Roman Empire"

Books about Italy & the Greco-Roman world are located in the stacks under DE & DG. For details about specific call numbers (sub-classified by period, criticism, collections, individual authors, etc.) see the document below.

A pivotal text for ancient Rome scholars, you can now download and listen to Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for free! Click on the link below.

Monographs: 

Campbell, Brian, The Romans and their World. Yale UP, 2011,

Flower, Harriet I. Roman Republics. Princeton UP, 2010,

Gaskell, Phillip. Landmarks in Classical Literature. (E-book) 1999

Hölkeskamp, Karl-Joachim, Reconstructing the Roman Republic: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research, tran. Henry Heitmann-Gordon. Princeton UP, 2010

Hoyos, Dexter, ed. A Companion to Roman Imperialism. Brill, 2013,

Isaac, Benjamin. The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity. Princeton UP, 2004

Leonhardt, Jürgen, Latin: Story of a World Language, trans. Kenneth Kronenberg. Harvard UP, 2013, 

Mattingly, David J. Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire. Princeton UP, 2014,

Nelson, Eric. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Roman Empire. Alpha, 2002, 

Potter, David S., ed. A Companion to the Roman Empire. Blackwell Pub., 2006,  

Rantala, Jussi, ed. Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World. Amsterdam UP, 2019, 

Rosenstein, Nathan. Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC: The Imperial Republic. Edinburgh UP, 2012,

Steel, Catherine, The End of the Roman Republic 146 to 44 BC: Conquest and Crisis. Edinburgh UP, 2013, 

Taylor, Donathan, Roman Republic at War: A Compendium of Battles from 498 to 31 BC. Pen & Sword Military, 2017,   

If you are interested in books which are not owned by the Alkek Library, they can be requested via our Interlibrary Loan service and we will borrow them from another library.  This is a free service available to current Texas State Students, Faculty, Staff.  NOTE:  This process takes 7-10 days for books. 

To request a book, open our  ILLIAD link for interlibrary loan and fill out the online request form.

If you have not used the service before, just click near the bottom of the page at the "First time users" link to set up your free account. 

 WorldCat  is a database to look at to find out which libraries own books that might not be available in the Alkek Library.  Use the "request this item via ILL" link in each record to generate an ILL request to Texas State.