Ray Laurence

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.

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)