Representations of empire : Rome and the Mediterranean world / edited by Alan K. Bowman ... [et al.].

Contributor Bowman, Alan K.

Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, c2002.

Descriptionxi, 196 p. : ill., maps, 1 port. ; 24 cm.

Note:"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.

Note:Introduction: Pursuing democracy / John North -- Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem / Amélie Kuhrt -- In search of the pontic community in antiquity / Stephen Mitchell -- Rome and the Jews: Josephus on 'freedom' and 'autonomy' / Daniel R. Schwartz -- In arto et inglorius labor: Tacitus's anti-history / Katherine Clarke -- Domintian's palace on the Palatine and the imperial image / Paul Zanker -- Imperial administration and epigraphy: in defence of prosopography / Werner Eck -- Lactantius and Augustine / Peter Garnsey

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography Note:"Fergus Millar: bibliography": p. [181]-188.

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