Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy

"This is a unique and accessible introduction to an underutilised source, Roman tokens, with a focus on those found in Imperial Italy. It explains how tokens can illuminate all kinds of issues such as identity, entertainment, euergetism, imperial ideology, festivals, material culture and everyday life"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Tokens and the Imperial family; 3. Creating identities in Rome, Ostia and Italy; 4. Cult, euergetism and the imagery of festivals; 5. Tokens, finds, and small-scale economies; 6. Conclusion: Tokens and the history of Roman Imperial Italy.

About the author

Clare Rowan is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. Her previous books, Under Divine Auspices: Divine Ideology and the Visualisation of Imperial Power (Cambridge, 2013) and From Caesar to Augustus: Using Coins as Sources (Cambridge, 2018), have demonstrated the enormous potential of coin evidence for understanding the Roman world. She held a European Research Starting Grant from 2016-2021, Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean, and this volume represents the findings of this work. She is currently the ancient editor for the Numismatic Chronicle.

Product details

• Authors: Clare Rowan, Clare (University of Warwick) Rowan, Rowan Clare
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781316516539
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51653-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE