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.

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.

Antiquity

Antiquity
Author: Frederick G. Naerebout
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 731
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118381807

Antiquity: Greeks and Romans in Context provides a chronological introduction to the history of ancient Mediterranean civilizations within the larger context of its contemporary Eurasian world. Innovative approach organizes Greek and Roman history into a single chronology Combines the traditional historical story with subjects that are central to modern research into the ancient world including a range of social, cultural, and political topics Facilitates an understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world as a unity, just as the Mediterranean world is in its turn presented as part of a larger whole Covers the entire ancient Mediterranean world from pre-history through to the rise of Islam in the seventh century A.D. Features a diverse collection of images, maps, diagrams, tables, and a chronological chart to aid comprehension English translation of a well-known Dutch book, De oudheid, now in its third edition

Sulla, the Elites and the Empire

Sulla, the Elites and the Empire
Author: Federico Santangelo
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047423712

This book is a study of Sulla’s policies in Italy and in the Greek East. Its main aim is to show how Sulla revived Rome’s alliances with the local elites at a critical moment for the survival of her Mediterranean hegemony. The discussion calls into play a wide range of political, economic and religious issues, and the argument is developed from three complementary standpoints: role of elites, administration, and ideology. Sulla, the Elites and the Empire deals with both the impact of a prominent individual and the impact of the Roman empire. It sets outs to offer a new understanding of Sulla and his age and, more generally, to contribute to the understanding of the late Roman Republic.

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.

Becoming Roman

Becoming Roman
Author: Greg Woolf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2000-07-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521789820

Studies the 'Romanization' of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire.

Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia

Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004370714

Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia is an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and global effort to examine the receptions of the Western Classical tradition in a cross-cultural context. The inclusion of modern East Asia in Classical reception studies not only allows scholars in the field to expand the scope of their scholarly inquiries but will also become a vital step toward transcending the meaning of Greco-Roman tradition into a common legacy for all of human society.

Being Greek Under Rome

Being Greek Under Rome
Author: Simon Goldhill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521030878

This book explores the cultural conflicts of the second-century CE Roman Empire, through the perspective of Greek writings. The specially commissioned essays investigate the intellectual and social tensions in the era which gave rise to Christianity.