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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811735003321

Autore

Millar Fergus

Titolo

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

Rome, the Greek world, and the East ; ; v.2

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.