Roman perspectives : studies in the social, political and cultural history of the first to fifth centuries /
Matthews, John(John Frederick)
Swansea : Classical Press of Wales,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-394) and index.
Gibbon and the later Roman Empire : causes and circumstances -- Power in the Classical world : a three-cornered dialogue : Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, Tacitus -- Ronald Syme, Constantine the Great and the second Roman revolution -- Tacitus, Acta senatus, and the inauguration of Tiberius -- Six tales of the equestrian order -- A last will and testament -- Travel, diplomacy and the diffusion of ideas in the Roman Mediterranean and Near East -- The cultural landscape of the Bordeaux Itinerary -- Ammianus and the eternity of Rome -- The letters of Symmachus -- Four funerals and a wedding : this world and the next in fourth-century Rome -- Children's games in Augustine's Confessions -- Roman law and Roman history -- Ammianus on Roman law and lawyers -- Roman law and barbarian identity in the Late Roman West -- Interpretating the Interpretationes of the Breviarium of Alaric -- Macsen, Maximus, Constantine.