Rome the cosmopolis

Cosmopolis: Rome as world city / Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf

The triumph of the absurd: Roman street theatre / Mary Beard

Incorporating the alien: the art of conquest / Catharine Edwards

Inventing Christian Rome: the role of early Christian art / Jaþs Elsner

Slavery and the growth of Rome: the transformation of Italy in the second and first centuries BCE / Willem Jongman

Rivalling Rome: Carthage / Richard Miles

Migration and the metropolis / Neville Morley

Germs for Rome / Walter Scheidel

Embracing Egypt / Caroline Vout

The city of letters / Greg Woolf.