Roman Imperial Themes

by Brunt, P. A.

• ISBN13: 9780198144762
• ISBN10: 0198144768
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-07-12
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This book comprises sixteen articles published over thirty years, with supplements including two additional essays. Its range is broad, from discussions of Rome's aspirations to world dominion, to studies of provincial administration. The results of these studies suggest that Roman rule wasnot endeared to the subjects by the lightness of the burdens imposed, nor by the integrity and professional competence of the administrators; both have often been overestimated. The higher orders among the conquered peoples, however, were eventually reconciled by the Roman policy of assimilatingthem to Romans, and entrusting to them control of local affairs and an increasing influence in central government. Though the attitude of the masses to the empire is virtually unknowable, there was, except in Judaea, no national resistance comparable to that in the British empire, a theoryillustrated by detailed consideration of the first-century revolts in Gaul and Judaea. About one-third of the contents of this volume is new.

Table of Contents

Sulla and Asian publicans

The revolt of Vindex and the fall of Nero

Tacitus on the Baravian revolt

Charge of provincial maladministration under the early principate

Augustan imperialism

Reflections on British and Roman imperialism

The 'fiscus' and its development

Procural jurisdiction

Conscription and volunteering in the Roman Imperial Army

The administrators of Roman Egypt

Did imperial Rome disarm her subject?

The Romanization of the local ruling classes in the Roman Empire

Josephus on social conflicts in Roman Judaea

Laus Imperii

The revenues of Rome

Roman imperial illusions

Addenda to chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, and 15

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