Representations of empire
Subtitle: Rome and the Mediterranean world
By: edited by Alan K. Bowman ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bowman, Alan K.; Millar, Fergus
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy,; 114
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. -- Congresses; Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D. -- Congresses; Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476 -- Congresses; Rome -- Historiography -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Fergus Millar: bibliography": p. [181]-188.
"The essays collected in this volume have their origin in a conference on Rome and the Mediterranean world held in London and Oxford ... on 7 and 8 July 2000. The conference was timed to coincide with the sixty-fifth birthday of Fergus Millar ... and to celebrate his achievement over four decades of teaching and research ..."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Pursuing democracy -- John North; title: Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem -- Amélie Kuhrt; title: In search of the pontic community in antiquity -- Stephen Mitchell; title: Rome and the Jews: Josephus on 'freedom' and 'autonomy' -- Daniel R. Schwartz; title: In arto et inglorius labor: Tacitus's anti-history -- Katherine Clarke; title: Domintian's palace on the Palatine and the imperial image -- Paul Zanker; title: Imperial administration and epigraphy: in defence of prosopography -- Werner Eck; title: Lactantius and Augustine -- Peter Garnsey