Contents -- Senior Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part I Debates -- Introduction: History and Narrative -- 1 A Capital and its Provinces -- 2 Economy, Armies and Administration -- 3 Law and Citizenship -- 4 Development and Perception of Emperorship -- 5 Christianity and Religious Change -- Conclusion -- Part II Documents -- 1 Cassius Dio -- 2 Herodian -- 3 Historia Augusta -- 4 Sextus Aurelius Victor -- 5 Eutropius -- 6 Festus -- 7 Zosimus -- 8 Publius Aelius Aristides -- 9 The Thirteen Sibylline Oracle -- 10 Res Gestae Divi Saporis -- 11 Lactantius -- 12 P. Herennius Dexippus -- 13 Dexippus Inscription -- 14 Odaenathus Inscripts from CIS -- 15 Augsburg Inscription -- 16 Inscriptions from CIL -- 17 Aga Bey Koyu Petition -- 18 Papyrus of Isis to her Family -- 19 Command of the Egyptian Prefect -- 20 The Constitutio Antoniniana -- 21 Digest -- 22 Damnatio Memoriae in a Papyrus -- 23 Oxyrhynchus papyri -- 24 Inscriptions from Aphrodisias -- 25 Acclamation at Perge -- 26 The Feriale Duranum -- 27 Trajan to Pliny -- 28 Libellus of the Decian Persecution -- 29 Cyprian: To Demetrianus -- 30 Cyprian -- 31 Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas -- 32 Marcus Minucius Felix -- 33 Epistle against the Manichees -- 34 Ban on Magical Consultation -- 35 Wall of Aurelian -- 36 Rock Relief at Bishapur -- 37 Arch of Galerius, Thessalonica -- 38 Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome -- 39 Arco degli Argentarii, Rome -- 40 Palmyrene Sarcophagus -- 41 Syrian Togate Portrait -- 42 Distribution of Third-Century Imperial Coin Types -- 43 Coins of Elagabalus -- 44 Triangual Coin from Tyre -- 45 Coins of Philip the Arab -- 46 Decius' Consecration Coins -- 47 Coins of Gallienus -- 48 Coins of Aurelian and His Opponents -- 49 Imperial busts -- Emperors and Usurpers -- Further Reading -- Essay Questions and Exercise Topics -- Internet Resources.

Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.