Title: Rome and its Empire, AD 193-284 /
Authors: Hekster, Olivier.; Zair, Nicholas.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Rome History
Contents: Part I. Debates -- Introduction : history and narrative -- A capital and its province -- Economy, armies and administration -- Law and citizenship -- Development and perception of emperorship -- Christianity and religious change -- Conclusion -- Part II. Documents -- Cassius Dio : Roman history -- Herodian : history of the empire after Marcus -- Historia Augusta -- Sextus Aurelius Victor : book of the caesars -- Eutropius : breviarium -- Festus : breviarium -- Zosimus : new history -- Publius Aelius Aristides : to Rome -- The thirteenth Sibylline oracle -- Res gestae divi saporis -- Lactantius : on the deaths of the persecutors -- P. Herennius Dexippus : Scythica -- Dexippus inscription-- Odaenathus inscriptions from CIS -- Augsburg inscription -- Inscriptions from CIL -- Ağa Bey Köyü petition -- Papyrus of Isis to her family -- Command of the Egyptian prefect -- The Constitutio Antoniniana -- Digest -- Damnatio memoriae in a papyrus -- Oxyrhynchus papyri -- Inscriptions from Aphrodisias -- Acclamation at Perge -- The Feriale Duranum -- Trajan to Pliny : letter 10.97 -- Libellus of the Decian persecution -- Cyprian : to Demetrianus -- Cyprian : letter 80 -- Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas -- Marcus Minucius Felix : Octavius -- Epistle against the Manichees -- Ban on magical consultation -- Wall of Aurelian -- Rock relief at Bishapur -- Arch of Galerius, Thessalonica -- Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome -- Arco degli Argentarii, Rome -- Palmyrene sarcophagus -- Syrian Togate portrait -- Distribution of third-century imperial coin types -- Coins of Elagabalus -- Trilingual coin from Tyre -- Coins of Philip the Arab -- Decius' consecration coins (250-1) -- Coins of Gallienus -- Coins of Aurelian and his opponents -- Imperial busts -- Emperors and usurpers -- Further reading -- Essay questions and exercise topics -- Internet resources -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.