Emperors, Kings and Subjects: The Politics of Two-Level Sovereignty
Journal: Scripta classica Israelica
Year: 2020

No one would deny that the Roman Empire was a complex system, incorporat ing many different geographical zones, ethnic groups and political formations, or that much of what we might at first want to describe as the "government" of the Empire really involved diplomacy and political relations.But perhaps not enough stress has been laid on one very important aspect of the political struc ture of the Empire, especially in the earlier period, namely the presence of what one might call a two-level mon