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Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 114

Representations of Empire:

Rome and the Mediterranean World

edited by Alan K Bowman, Hannah M Cotton, Martin Goodman & Simon Price

Reprinted 2004

Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press

234 × 156 mm; 208 pages
hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-726276-4
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The essays in this volume cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. The belief shared by all the contributors is that the Roman empire is best understood from the standpoint of the Mediterranean world looking in to Rome, rather than from Rome looking out.

The papers focus on the development of political institutions in Rome itself and in her empire, and on the nature of the relationship between Rome and her provincial subjects. They also discuss historiographical approaches to different kinds of source material, literary and documentary — including the major Roman historians, the evidence for the pre-Roman near east, and the Christian writers of later antiquity.

This volume reflects the immense complexity of the political and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean, from the late Republic to the age of Augustine.

Readership: Scholars and students of ancient history, historians of the near east, biblical scholars and theologians.

The volume is edited by Alan Bowman, Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy; Hannah Cotton, Professor of Classics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Martin Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy; and Simon Price, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Oxford.

The volume arises from a conference on ‘Rome and the Mediterranean World’ held in July 2000 — coinciding with the 65th birthday of Professor Fergus Millar.

CONTENTS

• Notes on Contributors
• Preface

1. John North, Introduction: Pursuing Democracy
2. Amélie Kuhrt, Sennacherib’s Siege of Jerusalem
3. Stephen Mitchell, In Search of the Pontic Community in Antiquity
4. Daniel R Schwartz, Rome and the Jews: Josephus on ‘Freedom’ and ‘Autonomy’
5. Katherine Clarke, In arto et inglorius labor: Tacitus’s Anti-history
6. Paul Zanker, Domitian’s Palace on the Palatine and the Imperial Image
7. Werner Eck, Imperial Administration and Epigraphy: In Defence of Prosopography
8. Peter Garnsey, Lactantius and Augustine

• Appendix. Fergus Millar: Bibliography
• Index