I’ve created/edited two source books on the Roman world; they’re both created to be accessible to those who very little or nothing about the ancient Romans, so don’t worry if all you know about Rome is that it’s a city in Italy!
However, please do take the content warnings seriously – the Romans were not generally very nice people and did many genuinely terrible things.
This collection is on difference and marginalized groups in ancient Rome. I created it with students in a third year class at the University of British Columbia, and launched it thanks to a fellowship from the Public Humanities Hub at UBC, a grant from the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology and copious assistance from many wonderful people at the Koerner Library, UBC.
You can find out more about how Romans were supposed to dress and speak, what groups suffered legal penalties, immigrants to the city of Rome, and much more in it.
If you’ve ever wanted to know more about gladiators, charioteers, actors and spectacular performances in ancient Rome this is the collection for you! There’s even a section on Spartacus and what we know about him as an individual versus what his legend was.
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