Rome, the Greek World, and the East

by Millar, Fergus; Cotton, Hannah M.; Rogers, Guy M.

• ISBN13: 9780807855201
• ISBN10: 0807855200
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman Worldand The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar's published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire (some of them published in inaccessible journals). Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire worked in practice and what it was like to live under Roman rule. As in the first volume of the collection, English translations of the extended Greek and Latin passages in the original articles make Millar's essays accessible to readers who do not read these languages.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction to Volume 2, by Hannah M. Cotton	xi
Abbreviations	xix
Part I. The Imperial Government
1. Emperors at Work	3	(20)
2. Trajan: Government by Correspondence	23	(24)
3. The Fiscus in the First Two Centuries	47	(26)
4. The Aerarium and Its Officials under the Empire	73	(16)
5. Cash Distributions in Rome and Imperial Minting	89	(16)
6. Epictetus and the Imperial Court	105	(15)
7. Condemnation to Hard Labour in the Roman Empire, from the Julio-Claudians to Constantine	120	(31)
8. The Equestrian Career under the Empire	151	(9)
9. Emperors, Frontiers, and Foreign Relations, 31 B.C. to A.D. 378	160	(35)
l0. Government and Diplomacy in the Roman Empire during the First Three Centuries	195	(34)
11. Emperors, Kings, and Subjects: The Politics of Two-Level Sovereignty	229	(20)
Part II. Society and Culture in the Empire
12. Local Cultures in the Roman Empire: Libyan, Punic, and Latin in Roman Africa	249	(16)
13. P. Herennius Dexippus: The Greek World and the Third-Century Invasions	265	(33)
14. The Imperial Cult and the Persecutions	298	(15)
15. The World of the Golden Ass	313	(23)
16. Empire and City, Augustus to Julian: Obligations, Excuses, and Status	336	(36)
17. Italy and the Roman Empire: Augustus to Constantine	372	(27)
18. Style Abides	399	(18)
19. A New Approach to the Roman Jurists	417	(18)
20. The Greek East and Roman Law: The Dossier of M. Cn. Licinius Rufinus	435	(30)
Index	465