Rome the Greek World, and the East: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution

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

• ISBN13: 9780807826645
• ISBN10: 0807826642
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• 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, including The Emperor in the Roman Worldand The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned. He also has shown how and why Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam evolved from within the wider cultural context of the Greco-Roman world. Opening this collection of sixteen essays is a new contribution by Millar in which he defends the continuing significance of the study of Classics and argues for expanding the definition of what constitutes that field. In this volume he also questions the dominant scholarly interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic, arguing that the Roman people, not the Senate, were the sovereign power in Republican Rome. In so doing he sheds new light on the establishment of a new regime by the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: Polybius Was Right	xi
Guy M. Rogers
Abbreviations	xvii
Author's Prologue	1	(24)
Part I. Conceptions and Sources
Taking the Measure of the Ancient World	25	(14)
Epigraphy	39	(46)
Part II. The Roman Republic
Political Power in Mid-Republican Rome: Curia or Comitium?	85	(24)
The Political Character of the Classical Roman Republic, 200--151 B.C.	109	(34)
Politics, Persuasion, and the People, before the Social War (150--90 B.C.)	143	(19)
Popular Politics at Rome in the Late Republic	162	(21)
Cornelius Nepos, ``Atticus,'' and the Roman Revolution	183	(17)
The Last Century of the Republic: Whose History?	200	(15)
The Mediterranean and the Roman Revolution: Politics, War, and the Economy	215	(26)
Part III. The Augustan Revolution
Triumvirate and Principate	241	(30)
The Emperor, the Senate, and the Provinces	271	(21)
State and Subject: The Impact of Monarchy	292	(22)
``Senatorial'' Provinces: An Institutionalized Ghost	314	(7)
Ovid and the Domus Augusta: Rome Seen from Tomoi	321	(29)
Imperial Ideology in the Tabula Siarensis	350	(10)
The Roman City-State under the Emperors, 29 B.C. -- A.D. 69	360	(17)
Index	377