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Keith Hopkins was a sociologist and Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge from 1985 to 2001. He is widely recognised as one of the most radical, innovative and influential Roman historians of his generation. This volume presents fourteen of Hopkins' essays on an impressive range of subjects: contraception, demography, economic history, slavery, literacy, imperial power, Roman religion, Early Christianity, and the social and political struc...

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An account on Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. It details of how the arena was built and at what cost, introduces to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum, and, takes measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. It trace the strange afterlife of the monument.

Professor Hopkins has developed an exciting approach to social questions in antiquity and his book should be of interest to all students of ancient history and of historical sociology.

This is a volume of studies concerned with death and its impact on the social order. The first topic considered is gladiatorial combat, not merely popular entertainment, it was also an important element in Roman politics. The book then investigates the composition of the political elite in the late Republic and Principate (249 BC AD 235), showing that ideals of hereditary succession disguised high rates of social mobility. The final chapter ra...

The story of Rome's greatest arena, from the award-winning classicist Beard, who recently presented and wrote the BBC2 documentary "Pompeii". '...first class scholarship and an engagingly demotic style' "Independent