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Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 2 Government, Society, and Culture
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Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 2 Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire (Rome, the Greek World, and the East) Hardcover - 2003

by Millar, Fergus.

From the publisher

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar's published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire (some of them published in inaccessible journals). Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire worked in practice and what it was like to live under Roman rule. As in the first volume of the collection, English translations of the extended Greek and Latin passages in the original articles make Millar's essays accessible to readers who do not read these languages.

First line

One of the most revealing single items of evidence on the political character of the Empire is an anecdote told by Dio about Hadrian; a woman approached the Emperor on a journey and demanded his attention; Hadrian said he had no time and moved on-"then stop being Emperor" shouted the woman after him.

Details

  • Title Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Volume 2 Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire (Rome, the Greek World, and the East)
  • Author Millar, Fergus.
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
  • Date December 6, 2003
  • ISBN 9780807828526

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