Ray Laurence Explained

Ray Laurence is professor of ancient history at Macquarie University. He has won the Routledge Ancient History Prize for his first book Roman Pompeii: Space and Society, and the Longman-History Today New Generation Prize for his book Pompeii: The Living City.

He was educated at Leighton Park School and Newcastle University both in the United Kingdom.^[1]

Selected publications

• Roman Pompeii: Space and Society (1996)
• Pompeii: The Living City (2006)
• Growing Up and Growing Old in Ancient Rome (2001)
• The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change (2011)
• Roman Archaeology for Historians (2012)
• Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space (2012)
• The City in the Roman West (2011)
• The Cultural History of Shopping in Antiquity (2022)
• The Cultural History of Childhood and Family in Antiquity (2010)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Ray Laurence - Macquarie University. www.mq.edu.au.