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A collection in English translation of sources for the study of Greek and Roman history.
Author : Robert K. Sherk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 1984-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521271233
A collection in English translation of sources for the study of Greek and Roman history.
Author : Robert K. Sherk
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0807875082
Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and 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.
Author : Joseph Wells
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Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Rome
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Author : Glen Warren Bowersock
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Greece
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Author : Robert K. Sherk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 1988-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521338875
A collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions and papyri in English translation. Supplements such major literary sources as Tacitus, Suetonius, and Dio in the study of Roman imperial history.
Author : Fergus Millar
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
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Author : Arthur M. Eckstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1118293541
This volume examines the period from Rome's earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the establishment of Roman geopolitical dominance over all the Greek states from the Adriatic Sea to Syria by the 180s BC. Applies modern political theory to ancient Mediterranean history, taking a Realist approach to its analysis of Roman involvement in the Greek Mediterranean Focuses on the harsh nature of interactions among states under conditions of anarchy while examining the conduct of both Rome and Greek states during the period, and focuses on what the concepts of modern political science can tell us about ancient international relations Includes detailed discussion of the crisis that convulsed the Greek world in the last decade of the third century BC Provides a balanced portrait of Roman militarism and imperialism in the Hellenistic world
Author : Joseph Wells
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Rome
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Author : Ramsay MacMullen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300129908
During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city design, clothing, and leisure and family activities. In his newest book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates why the adoption of Roman ways was so prevalent during this period.Drawing largely on archaeological sources, MacMullen discovers that during this period more than half a million Roman veterans were resettled in colonies overseas, and an additional hundred or more urban centers in the provinces took on normal Italian-Roman town constitutions. Great sums of expendable wealth came into the hands of ambitious Roman and local notables, some of which was spent in establishing and advertising Roman ways. MacMullen argues that acculturation of the ancient world was due not to cultural imperialism on the part of the conquerors but to eagerness of imitation among the conquered, and that the Romans were able to respond with surprisingly effective techniques of mass production and standardization.