While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess,...
The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its...
What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, an...
The public private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and r...
Since the 1970s, John Scheid has been one of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly ...
Law is a particularly fruitful means by which to investigate the relationship between religion an...
In 212 CE, the emperor Caracalla extended citizenship to nearly all free-born residents of the Ro...
The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for th...