The Roman Empire and the Wider World: The Two-way Trade of Goods, Culture, Knowledge and Religion

Explores Rome’s extensive trade and diplomatic relations with distant lands, revealing a two—way exchange of goods, ideas, and cultures.

Much has been written about the great extent encompassed by the Roman Empire's borders, their armies’ attempts to expand and defend them, and about the extent to which ‘Romanization’ imposed a uniform culture within them. But far less attention has been lavished on Rome's relations with the wider world that lay beyond these porous borders. A citizen shoppin...