Books written by Greg Woolf

Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material.
Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material.
Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul

Studies the 'Romanization' of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire.
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

Richly illustrated, the book vividly brings to life the abandoned remains of our ancient urban ancestors and serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of even the mightiest of cities.
Ancient Libraries

The libraries of the ancient world were completely unlike those we know today. This book explores and explains those differences.
Et Tu, Brute?: The Murder of Caesar and Political Assassination

'Then fall, Caesar!" -- Talking tyrannicide -- Caesar's murdered heirs -- Aftershocks.
Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys' synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen; 13. Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen; 14.
Ancient Libraries

This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used.
Rome: An Empire's Story

MacMullen, Soldier and Civilian in the Later Roman Empire; Adrian Goldsworthy and Ian Haynes (eds.) ... 1991); Emily Gowers, The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993); Oswyn Murray and ...
Tales of the Barbarians: Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West

Providing a fresh perspective on the topic by examining passages from ancient writers in a new light, Woolf explores how ancient geography, local histories and the stories of wandering heroes were woven together by Greek scholars and local ...
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World

374 A Brief History of Rome F.G.B. Millar , The Roman Near East , 31 BC - AD 337 , Cambridge , Harvard University Press ... Rome , PUBLISHER ?, 1993–9 CHAPTER SIX K. Bradley , Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World , 140 BC - 70 BC ...
Literacy and Power in the Ancient World

This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society.
Rome: An Empire's Story

This is the story of how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects - a story spanning a millennium and a half.
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

Richly illustrated, the book vividly brings to life the abandoned remains of our ancient urban ancestors and serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of even the mightiest of cities.
Religion in the Roman Empire

Landbesitz griechischer Heiligtümer in archaischer und klassischer Zeit. RGVV 50. Berlin: De Gruyter. Hunt, Edward D. 1982. Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Later Roman Empire AD 312–460. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Hunter-Crawley, Heather 2020 ...
Rome: An Empire's Story

In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects--a story spanning a millennium and a half of history.
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture

This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of ...
Rome: An Empire's Story

First edition published by Oxford University, 2012.
Rome the Cosmopolis

Rome stands today for an empire and for a city. The essays gathered in this volume explore some of the many ways in which the two were interwoven.
Rome: An Empire's Story

Woolf expertly recounts how the mammoth Roman empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects--a story spanning a millennium and a half of history.