Well, not so new, but it's the paperback edition and has just been favorably reviewed at Bryn Mawr Classical Review:
Roman Social History: A Sourcebook
Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
by Tim G. Parkin, Arthur J. Pomeroy
London/New York: Routledge, 2007
Pp. xvii, 388. ISBN 9780415426756
$37.95
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.05.37
Roman social history: a sourcebook assembles a diverse collection of Latin and Greek sources ranging from the well-known and easily accessible, such as Seneca's Letters and excerpts from the Digest,
to the more obscure, including medical treatises of Galen and homilies
of John Chrysostom, in addition to a valuable selection of inscriptions
and papyri. In compiling these sources, Parkin and Pomeroy have sought
to provide a comprehensive picture of Roman social life, one that
incorporates the experiences of slaves, peasants, and labourers, and
focuses less on the lives of the elite, who ultimately comprised a very
small proportion of the total population.
[...] Parkin and Pomeroy's sourcebook is an extremely useful collection
for the study of Roman social history, particularly for its diversity
of topics and wide range of literary, epigraphic, and papyrological
source materials. It will be a valuable resource for students,
instructors, and anyone interested in accessing the 'other side' of
Rome's history and evidence for the day-to-day experiences of the
majority of Romans in the early empire. read all
