Bibliography for Transformation and Identity in the Roman Empire
General
Adamson, Peter. Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Africa, Thomas W. Rome of the Caesars. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1965.
Brown, Peter. The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.
Cameron, Alan. The Last Pagans of Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Conte, Gian Biagio. Latin Literature: A History. 2nd ed. Trans. J. B. Solodow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Curran, L. C. “Metamorphosis and Anti-Augustanism.” Arethusa 5 (1978): 71-91.
Garnsey, Peter, and Richard Saller. The Roman Empire: Economy, Society, and Culture. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
Grant, Michael. The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire. London: Routledge, 1999.
Jones, A. H. M. Constantine and the Conversion of Europe. Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
Joshel, Sandra R. Slavery in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Kirk, G. S. Myth: Its Meaning and Function in Ancient and Other Cultures. Berekeley: University of California Press, 1970.
Martin, Luther H. Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Momigliano, Arnaldo. On Pagans, Jews, and Christians. Wesleyan University Press, 1987.
Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York: Schocken, 1995.
Shaw, Brent D. “Bandits in the Roman Empire.” Past and Present 105 (1984): 3-52.
Suetonius. The Twelve Caesars. Trans. Robert Graves. Rev. Michael Grant. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 2003.
Tacitus. The Annals of Imperial Rome. Trans. Cynthia Damon. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2013.
Ovid
Anderson, W. S. “Aspects of Love in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Classical Journal 90 (1982): 265-269.
Barkan, Leonard. The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Forbes-Irving, P. M. C. Metamorphosis in Greek Myths. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Galinsky, G. Karl. Ovid’s Metmorphoses: And Introduction to the Basic Aspects. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
Hardie, Philip, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ovid. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Knox, P. E. Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Myers, K. Sara. Ovid’s Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Segal, Charles. “Ovid’s Metamorphic Bodies: Art, Gender, and Violence in the Metamorphoses.” Arion 5 (1998): 5-41.
Solodow, Joseph B. The World of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Robert Fagles. Intro. Bernard Knox. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2008.
Seneca, Epictetus, and Stoicism
Bartsch, Shadi, and David Wray, eds. Seneca and the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage, 1998.
Griffin, Miriam. Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Inwood, Brad. Reading Seneca: Roman Philosophy at Rome. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005.
Long, A. A. Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004.
Motto, Anna Lydia. Seneca’s Moral Epistles. Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy Carducci Publishers, 2001.
Pagán, Victoria Emma, ed. A Companion to Tacitus. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Scaltsas, Theodore, and Andrew Mason. The Philosophy of Epictetus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Apuleius
Finkelpearl, Ellen D. Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Frangouldis, Stavros. Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Gollnick, James. The Religious Dreamworld of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: Recovering a Forgotten Hermeneutic. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999.
Sabnis, Sonia. "Invisible Slaves, Visible Lamps: A Metaphor in Apuleius." Arethusa 45.1 (Winter 2012): 79-108.
Shumate, Nancy. Crisis and Conversion in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Smet, R. de. ”The Erotic Adventures of Lucius and Photis in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.” Latomus 46 (1987): 613-23.
Hellenistic/Roman Judaism
Alesse, Francesca, ed. Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2008.
Cohen, Shaye J. D. The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Goodenough, Erwin R. An Introduction to Philo Judaeus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940.
Jaffee, Martin. Early Judaism: Religious Worlds of the First Judaic Millennium. 2nd ed. Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2006.
Josephus, Flavius. The Jewish War. Rev. ed. Trans. G. A. Williamson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
Kamesar, A., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Philo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Momigliano, Arnaldo. Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism. Trans. Maura Masella-Gayley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Sanders, E. P. Judaism: Practice & Belief, 63 BCE—66 CE. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992.
Sandmel, Samuel. Philo of Alexandria: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Schwartz, Seth. Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE—640 CE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Vermes, Geza, trans. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2004.
Yonge, C. D. The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged. Rev. ed. New York: Hendrickson Publishers, 1993.
New Testament/Early Christianity
Chadwick, Henry. The Early Church. Vol. 1. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
Dunn, James D. G. The New Perspective on Paul. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 2005.
Eusebius. The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine. Trans. Andrew Louth. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.
Kraemer, Ross Shepard, and Mary Rose D'Angelo, eds. Women and Christian Origins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Louth, Andrew. Early Christian Writings. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
Miller, Patricia Cox, ed. Women in Early Christianity: Translations from Greek Texts. Washington, D. C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
Origen. On First Principles. Trans. G. W. Butterworth. Intro. Henri de Lubac. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1973.
Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Vintage, 1989.
Salisbury, Joyce E. Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman. London: Routledge, 1997.
Sanders, E. P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism. London: SCM Press, 1977.
Segal, Alan F. Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Ste. Croix, G. E. M. de. “Why Were the Early Christians Persecuted?” Past and Present 26 (1963): 6-38.
Stegemann, Ekkehard W., and Wolfgang Stegemann. The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century. Trans. O. C. Dean, Jr. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999.
White, Carolinne, trans. Early Christian Lives. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998.
Wolfson, H. A. The Philosophy of the Church Fathers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Plotinus/Neoplatonism
Carabine, Deirdre. The Unknown God: Negative Theology in the Platonic Tradition, Plato to Eriugena. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Press, 2015.
Dodds, E. R. “Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus.” Journal of Roman Studies 50 (1960):
Hadot, Pierre. Plotinus, or the Simplicity of Vision. Trans. Michael Chase. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
O’Meara, Dominic J. Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.
O’Meara, Dominic J. Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
Remes, Paulina. Neoplatonism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
Shaw, Gregory. “Theurgy: Rituals of Unification in the Neoplatonism of Iamblichus.” Traditio 41 (1985): 1-28.
Wallis, R. T. Neoplatonism. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995.
Augustine
Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
Caputo, John D., and Michael J. Scanlon, eds. Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.
Levering, Matthew. The Theology of Augustine: An Introductory Guide to His Most Important Works. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2013.
Stock, Brian. Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Stump, Eleonore, and Norman Kretzmann, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Adamson, Peter. Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Africa, Thomas W. Rome of the Caesars. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1965.
Brown, Peter. The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.
Cameron, Alan. The Last Pagans of Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Conte, Gian Biagio. Latin Literature: A History. 2nd ed. Trans. J. B. Solodow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Curran, L. C. “Metamorphosis and Anti-Augustanism.” Arethusa 5 (1978): 71-91.
Garnsey, Peter, and Richard Saller. The Roman Empire: Economy, Society, and Culture. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
Grant, Michael. The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire. London: Routledge, 1999.
Jones, A. H. M. Constantine and the Conversion of Europe. Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.
Joshel, Sandra R. Slavery in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Kirk, G. S. Myth: Its Meaning and Function in Ancient and Other Cultures. Berekeley: University of California Press, 1970.
Martin, Luther H. Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Momigliano, Arnaldo. On Pagans, Jews, and Christians. Wesleyan University Press, 1987.
Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York: Schocken, 1995.
Shaw, Brent D. “Bandits in the Roman Empire.” Past and Present 105 (1984): 3-52.
Suetonius. The Twelve Caesars. Trans. Robert Graves. Rev. Michael Grant. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 2003.
Tacitus. The Annals of Imperial Rome. Trans. Cynthia Damon. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2013.
Ovid
Anderson, W. S. “Aspects of Love in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Classical Journal 90 (1982): 265-269.
Barkan, Leonard. The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Forbes-Irving, P. M. C. Metamorphosis in Greek Myths. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Galinsky, G. Karl. Ovid’s Metmorphoses: And Introduction to the Basic Aspects. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
Hardie, Philip, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ovid. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Knox, P. E. Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Myers, K. Sara. Ovid’s Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Segal, Charles. “Ovid’s Metamorphic Bodies: Art, Gender, and Violence in the Metamorphoses.” Arion 5 (1998): 5-41.
Solodow, Joseph B. The World of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Robert Fagles. Intro. Bernard Knox. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2008.
Seneca, Epictetus, and Stoicism
Bartsch, Shadi, and David Wray, eds. Seneca and the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage, 1998.
Griffin, Miriam. Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Inwood, Brad. Reading Seneca: Roman Philosophy at Rome. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005.
Long, A. A. Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004.
Motto, Anna Lydia. Seneca’s Moral Epistles. Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy Carducci Publishers, 2001.
Pagán, Victoria Emma, ed. A Companion to Tacitus. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Scaltsas, Theodore, and Andrew Mason. The Philosophy of Epictetus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Apuleius
Finkelpearl, Ellen D. Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
Frangouldis, Stavros. Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Gollnick, James. The Religious Dreamworld of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: Recovering a Forgotten Hermeneutic. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999.
Sabnis, Sonia. "Invisible Slaves, Visible Lamps: A Metaphor in Apuleius." Arethusa 45.1 (Winter 2012): 79-108.
Shumate, Nancy. Crisis and Conversion in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Smet, R. de. ”The Erotic Adventures of Lucius and Photis in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.” Latomus 46 (1987): 613-23.
Hellenistic/Roman Judaism
Alesse, Francesca, ed. Philo of Alexandria and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2008.
Cohen, Shaye J. D. The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Goodenough, Erwin R. An Introduction to Philo Judaeus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940.
Jaffee, Martin. Early Judaism: Religious Worlds of the First Judaic Millennium. 2nd ed. Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2006.
Josephus, Flavius. The Jewish War. Rev. ed. Trans. G. A. Williamson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
Kamesar, A., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Philo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Momigliano, Arnaldo. Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism. Trans. Maura Masella-Gayley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Sanders, E. P. Judaism: Practice & Belief, 63 BCE—66 CE. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992.
Sandmel, Samuel. Philo of Alexandria: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Schwartz, Seth. Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE—640 CE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Vermes, Geza, trans. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2004.
Yonge, C. D. The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged. Rev. ed. New York: Hendrickson Publishers, 1993.
New Testament/Early Christianity
Chadwick, Henry. The Early Church. Vol. 1. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
Dunn, James D. G. The New Perspective on Paul. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 2005.
Eusebius. The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine. Trans. Andrew Louth. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.
Kraemer, Ross Shepard, and Mary Rose D'Angelo, eds. Women and Christian Origins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Louth, Andrew. Early Christian Writings. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
Miller, Patricia Cox, ed. Women in Early Christianity: Translations from Greek Texts. Washington, D. C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
Origen. On First Principles. Trans. G. W. Butterworth. Intro. Henri de Lubac. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1973.
Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels. New York: Vintage, 1989.
Salisbury, Joyce E. Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman. London: Routledge, 1997.
Sanders, E. P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism. London: SCM Press, 1977.
Segal, Alan F. Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Ste. Croix, G. E. M. de. “Why Were the Early Christians Persecuted?” Past and Present 26 (1963): 6-38.
Stegemann, Ekkehard W., and Wolfgang Stegemann. The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century. Trans. O. C. Dean, Jr. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999.
White, Carolinne, trans. Early Christian Lives. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998.
Wolfson, H. A. The Philosophy of the Church Fathers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Plotinus/Neoplatonism
Carabine, Deirdre. The Unknown God: Negative Theology in the Platonic Tradition, Plato to Eriugena. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Press, 2015.
Dodds, E. R. “Tradition and Personal Achievement in the Philosophy of Plotinus.” Journal of Roman Studies 50 (1960):
Hadot, Pierre. Plotinus, or the Simplicity of Vision. Trans. Michael Chase. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
O’Meara, Dominic J. Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.
O’Meara, Dominic J. Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
Remes, Paulina. Neoplatonism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
Shaw, Gregory. “Theurgy: Rituals of Unification in the Neoplatonism of Iamblichus.” Traditio 41 (1985): 1-28.
Wallis, R. T. Neoplatonism. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995.
Augustine
Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.
Caputo, John D., and Michael J. Scanlon, eds. Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.
Levering, Matthew. The Theology of Augustine: An Introductory Guide to His Most Important Works. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2013.
Stock, Brian. Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Stump, Eleonore, and Norman Kretzmann, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.