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Rome, the Greek world, and the East. Volume 2, Government, Society, & Culture in the Roman Empire / Fergus Millar ; edited by Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millar, Fergus, author.
- Series:
- Millar, Fergus. Rome, the Greek world, and the East ; v.2.
- Studies in the History of Greece and Rome Series
- Studies in the history of Greece and Rome.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--Civilization.
- Greece.
- Rome--Civilization.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (505 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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: Ob
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9798890872401
- 9798890872395
- 9781469654584
- 146965458X
- 9780807863695
- 0807863696
- OCLC:
- 70741920
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