Representations of Empire Rome and the Mediterranean World

by Bowman, Alan K.; Cotton, Hannah M.; Goodman, Martin; Price, Simon

• ISBN13: 9780197262764
• ISBN10: 0197262767
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-09
• Publisher: British Academy

Summary

The essays in this volume cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. The belief shared by all the contributors is that the Roman empire is best understood from the standpoint of the Mediterranean world looking in to Rome, rather than from Rome looking out. The volume reflects the immense complexity of the political and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean, from the late Republic to the age of Augustine.

Author Biography

Alan K. Bowman is a Tutorial Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford Hannah M. Cotton is Professor of Classics at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies and Fellow of Wolfson College Simon Price is a Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall at University of Oxford

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables and Figures	vi
Notes on Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
List of Abbreviations	xii
Introduction: Pursuing Democracy	1	(12)
John North
Sennacherib's Siege of Jerusalem	13	(22)
Amelie Kuhrt
In Search of the Pontic Community in Antiquity	35	(30)
Stephen Mitchell
Rome and the Jews: Josephus on `Freedom' and `Autonomy'	65	(18)
Daniel R. Schwartz
In arto et inglorius labor: Tacitus's Anti-history	83	(22)
Katherine Clarke
Domitian's Palace on the Palatine and the Imperial Image	105	(26)
Paul Zanker
Imperial Administration and Epigraphy: In Defence of Prosopography	131	(22)
Werner Eck
Lactantius and Augustine	153	(28)
Peter Garnsey
Appendix: Bibliography	181	(8)
Fergus Millar
Index	189