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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777409303321

Autore

Millar Fergus

Titolo

Rome, the Greek world, and the East . Vol. 2 Government, society, and culture in the Roman Empire / / Fergus Millar ; edited by Hannah Cotton & Guy Rogers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press

London, : Eurospan, 2004

ISBN

979-88-908724-0-1

979-88-908723-9-5

1-4696-5458-X

0-8078-6369-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (505 pages)

Collana

Studies in the history of Greece and Rome

Altri autori (Persone)

CottonHannah

RogersGuy MacLean

Disciplina

938

Soggetti

Civilization, Ancient

Greece Civilization

Rome Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction to Volume 2; Abbreviations; Part I. The Imperial Government; 1. Emperors at Work; 2. Trajan: Government by Correspondence; 3. The Fiscus in the First Two Centuries; 4. The Aerarium and Its Officials under the Empire; 5. Cash Distributions in Rome and Imperial Minting; 6. Epictetus and the Imperial Court; 7. Condemnation to Hard Labour in the Roman Empire, from the Julio–Claudians to Constantine; 8. The Equestrian Career under the Empire; 9. Emperors, Frontiers, and Foreign Relations, 31 B.C. to A.D. 378

10. Government and Diplomacy in the Roman Empire during the First Three Centuries; 11. Emperors, Kings, and Subjects: The Politics of Two–Level Sovereignty; Part II. Society and Culture in the Empire; 12. Local Cultures in the Roman Empire: Libyan, Punic, and Latin in Roman Africa; 13. P. Herennius Dexippus: The Greek World and the Third–Century Invasions; 14. The Imperial Cult and the Persecutions; 15. TheWorld of the Golden Ass; 16. Empire and City, Augustus to Julian:



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Sommario/riassunto

This second volume of the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's published essays draws together 20 of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. 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.