Rome, the Greek World, and the East

Rome, the Greek World, and the East
Author: Fergus Millar
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2003-01-14
Genre: 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.

Rome Enters the Greek East

Rome Enters the Greek East
Author: Arthur M. Eckstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2012-01-25
Genre: 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

Rome, the Greek World, and the East

Rome, the Greek World, and the East
Author: Fergus Millar
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2005-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807863696

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar's published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire (some of them published in inaccessible journals). 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. As in the first volume of the collection, English translations of the extended Greek and Latin passages in the original articles make Millar's essays accessible to readers who do not read these languages.

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
Author: Harriet I. Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107032245

This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Rome, the Greek World, and the East

Rome, the Greek World, and the East
Author: Fergus Millar
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807876658

This volume completes the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's essays, which, together with his books, transformed the study of the Roman Empire by shifting the focus of inquiry onto the broader Mediterranean world and beyond. The eighteen essays presented here include Millar's classic contributions to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman culture acted as a vehicle for the self-expression of the indigenous cultures. In an epilogue written to conclude the collection, Millar argues for rethinking the focus of "ancient history" itself and for considering the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean from the first millennium B.C. to the Islamic conquests a valid scholarly framework and an appropriate educational syllabus for the study of antiquity. English translations of extended ancient passages in Greek, Latin, and Semitic languages in all the essays make Millar's most important articles accessible for the first time to specialists and nonspecialists alike.

Egypt, Greece, and Rome

Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Author: Charles Freeman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199263647

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The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome

The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome
Author: Erich S. Gruen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 882
Release: 1986-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520057371

In this revisionist study of Roman imperialism in the Greek world, Gruen considers the Hellenistic context within which Roman expansion took place. The evidence discloses a preponderance of Greek rather than Roman ideas: a noteworthy readiness on the part of Roman policymakers to adjust to Hellenistic practices rather than to impose a system of their own.

Roman Festivals in the Greek East

Roman Festivals in the Greek East
Author: Fritz Graf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2015-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107092116

This book explores how festivals of Rome were celebrated in the Greek East and their transformations in the Christian world.