The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the
latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars
elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to
our understanding of the Roman world. The emphasis is particularly upon
the new and exciting links between the various sub-disciplines that make
up Roman Studies - for example, between literature and epigraphy, art
and philosophy, papyrology and economic history. The Handbook, in fact,
aims to establish a field and scholarly practice as much as to describe
the current state of play. Connections with disciplines outside classics
are also explored, including anthropology, psychoanalysis, gender and
reception studies, and the use of new media.