Ostia-By-The-Sea

Ostia, the Roman settlement founded at the mouth of the river Tiber, was the port of the imperial capital and one of the most important urban centres in the Mediterranean world during the last decades of the Roman Republic and the Early and High Empires. Christer Bruun, an internationally recognized authority on Ostian society and culture, uses his mastery of contemporary scholarship and ancient sources to present a novel and often surprising analysis of what these testimonies can tell us about the people who lived there, or merely visited, or those whose ships anchored in one of Ostia's harbors.

Christer Bruun is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. Among his previous publications are the co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, the monograph The Water Supply of Ancient Rome and some 35 articles on the social and cultural history of Roman Ostia.