Provinces And Provincial Command In Republican Rome Genesis Development And Governance

Author : Díaz Fernández, Alejandro
Publisher : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9788447230891

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Provinces and Provincial Command in Republican Rome: Genesis, Development and Governance by Díaz Fernández, Alejandro Pdf

When the Roman Republic became the master of an overseas empire, the Romans had to adapt their civic institutions so as to be able to rule the dominions that were successively subjected to their imperium. As a result, Rome created an administrative structure mainly based on an element that became the keystone of its empire: the provincia. This book brings together nine contributions from a total of ten scholars, all specialists in Republican Rome and the Principate, who analyse from diverse perspectives and approaches the distinct ways in which the Roman res publica constituted and ruled a far-flung empire. The book ranges from the development of the Roman institutional structures to the diplomatic and administrative activities carried out by the Roman commanders overseas. Beyond the subject on which each author focuses, all chapters in this volume represent significant and renewed contributions to the study of the provinces and the Roman empire during the Republican period and the transition to the Principate.

Author : Panayiotis Christoforou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009362498

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Imagining the Roman Emperor by Panayiotis Christoforou Pdf

Explores how Roman emperors were perceived by their subjects in the first two centuries after Augustus.

Author : Csaba Szabó
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257854

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Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces by Csaba Szabó Pdf

The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where the dominant, pre-Roman cultures (Celtic, Illyrian, Hellenistic, Thracian) are interconnected within the new administrative, economic and cultural units of Roman cities, provinces and extra-provincial networks. This book presents the material evidence of Roman religion in the Danubian provinces through a new, paradigmatic methodology, focusing not only on the traditional urban and provincial units of the Roman Empire, but on a new space taxonomy. Roman religion and its sacralized places are presented in macro-, meso- and micro-spaces of a dynamic empire, which shaped Roman religion in the 1st-3rd centuries AD and created a large number of religious glocalizations and appropriations in Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Moesia Superior, Moesia Inferior and Dacia. Combining the methodological approaches of Roman provincial archaeology and religious studies, this work intends to provoke a dialogue between disciplines rarely used together in central-east Europe and beyond. The material evidence of Roman religion is interpreted here as a dynamic agent in religious communication, shaped by macro-spaces, extra-provincial routes, commercial networks, but also by the formation and constant dynamics of small group religions interconnected within this region through human and material mobilities. The book will also present for the first time a comprehensive list of sacralized spaces and divinities in the Danubian provinces.

Author : Cristina Rosillo López
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192856265

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Political Conversations in Late Republican Rome by Cristina Rosillo López Pdf

This book analyses senatorial political conversations and illuminates the oral aspects of Roman politics; it offers a new perspective of Roman politics through the proxy of conversations and meetings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004685734

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Law and Power by Anonim Pdf

In the Roman world, landscapes became legal and institutional constructions, being the core of social, political, religious, and economic life. The Romans developed ambitious urban transformations, seeking to equate civic monumentality and legal status. The built environment becomes the axis of the legal, administrative, sacred, and economic system and the main element of dissemination of imperial ideology. This volume follows the modern trend of a multifaceted, composite, multi-layered Roman world, but at the same time reduces its complexity. It views ‘Roman’ not only in the sense of power politics, but also in a cultural context. It highlights ‘landscapes’ and puts into the shadow important administrative and legal structures, i.e., individuals viz. local and imperial members of the elites living in cities, which ran the Roman world.

Author : Toni Ñaco del Hoyo,Jordi Principal,Mike Dobson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257182

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Rome and the north-western Mediterranean by Toni Ñaco del Hoyo,Jordi Principal,Mike Dobson Pdf

To date, Rome’s intervention to the West from the mid-second century BC has not really been looked at with any sense of overview. Instead, there has been an unconnected series of micro-regional studies looking at particular areas, from the river Ebro in Spain round to Italy on the land front, and from the Balearic Islands to Corsica, Sardinia and even Sicily as regards the seaborne aspect. In contrast, the aim of this volume is to push the historical and archaeological debates about Rome’s expansion beyond these traditional geographical boundaries and the discipline-based previous research. The entire north-western Mediterranean is treated as a micro-region and is addressed using various interdisciplinary approaches. The result is to provide an innovative and comprehensive overview of the north-western Mediterranean in a period of historical crossroads, aided particularly by focusing on the connectivity and integration within this region as two interrelated issues. While Republican Rome enforced itself as an expansive power towards the West, all sorts of polities, military operations and individuals also played a significant role in creating interconnectivity and integration of the north-western Mediterranean into a new hybrid reality. In order to uncover such processes of hybridisation, contributors to this volume were encouraged to focus on the historical, archaeological and numismatic material from several areas within the region, and to incorporate aspects of interdisciplinary methodologies in order to address the region’s military, political, social and economic interconnections with Italy, Rome and each other within the overall period.

Author : Arnau Lario Devesa,Joan Campmany Jiménez,Marc Marzo Pallàs,Oriol Morillas Samaniego
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803275185

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(Not) All Roads Lead to Rome by Arnau Lario Devesa,Joan Campmany Jiménez,Marc Marzo Pallàs,Oriol Morillas Samaniego Pdf

This book considers mobility in Antiquity in its broadest sense from a multidisciplinary perspective. Although mobility is always present in studies of exchange and cultural diffusion, here it is discussed as a key feature of societies, inherent to their functioning and where cultural, social and economic processes meet.

Author : Dominic M. Machado
Publisher : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9788413406381

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Voluntas Militum: Community, Collective Action, and Popular Power in the Armies of the Middle Republic (300–100 BCE) by Dominic M. Machado Pdf

Scholars, military men, and casual observers alike have devoted significant energy to understanding how the armies of the Roman Middle Republic (300 – 100 BCE) were able to function so effectively, examining their organization, hierarchy, recruitment, tactics, and ideology in close detail. But what about the concerns, interests, and goals of the soldiers who powered it? The present study argues that the military forces of the Middle Republic were not simply cogs in the Roman military machine, but rather dynamic and diverse social units that played a key role in shaping an ever-changing Mediterranean world. Indeed, the soldiers in the armies of this period not only developed connections with one another, but also formed bonds with non-military personnel who traveled with as well as inhabitants of the places where they campaigned. The connections soldiers developed while on campaign gave them significant power and agency as a group. Throughout the third and second centuries BCE, soldiers took collective actions, ranging from mutiny to defection to looting, to ensure that their economic, social, and political interests were advanced and protected. Recognizing the communities that Roman soldiers formed and the power that they exerted not only reframes our understanding of the Middle Republic and its armies, but fundamentally alters how we conceptualize the turbulent years of the Late Republic and the massive social, political, and military changes that followed.

Author : Jared Kreiner,Graham Wrightson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527570405

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Ancient Warfare, Volume II by Jared Kreiner,Graham Wrightson Pdf

This volume demonstrates the wide array of topics in ancient warfare currently studied by researchers around the world. Arranged chronologically in Greek and Roman history sections, the book takes readers through all manner of current research topics on ancient warfare, from traditional battle narratives or strategic analyses of campaigns, through the logistical considerations of armies in the field, to the ideology of women in war and mythology. The study of ancient war deals with a myriad of different topics and deals with themes in all types of history: social, cultural, economic, religious, literary, numismatical, epigraphical, ethnographical, topographical, prosopographical, and mythical, as well as the usual political and military. The study of ancient war is a field that is growing in popularity and continues to surprise us with many innovative new ideas, as shown in this collection of papers by established academics and current graduate students.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004537460

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Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire by Anonim Pdf

This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definition that made the empire into a superstructure whose coherence was embedded in its diversity.

Author : J. Macdonald Cobban
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316613009

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Senate and Provinces 78–49 B.C by J. Macdonald Cobban Pdf

Originally published in 1935, this book discusses aspects of Roman foreign policy and the provincial relations of the Senate from 78 to 49 BC.

Author : K. Loewenstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401024006

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The Governance of ROME by K. Loewenstein Pdf

Next to the Bible, Shakespeare, the French revolution and Napoleon, ancient Rome is one of the most plowed-through fields of historical experience. One of the truly great periods of history, Rome, over the centuries, deservedly has attracted the passionate attention of historians, philologists and, more recently, archeologists. Since Roman law constituted the source of the legal life of most of Western Europe, the legal profession had a legitimate interest. Veritable libraries have been built around the history of Rome. In the past confmed mostly to Italian, German, and French scholars the fascination with things Roman by now has spread to other civilized nations in cluding the Anglo-Saxon. Among the contributors to our knowledge of ancient Rome are some of the great minds in history and law. Our bibliography - selective, as neces sarily it has to be - records outstanding generalists as well as some of the numerous specialists that were helpful for our undertaking. Why, then, another study of the Roman political civilization and one that, at least measured by volume and effort, is not altogether insubstantial? And why, has to be added, one presented by an author who, whatever his reputation in other fields, ostensibly is an outsider of the classical discipline? These are legitimate questions that should be honestly answered. By training and avocation the author is a constitutional lawyer or, rather, a political scientist primarily interested in the operation of governmental institutions.

Author : Fred K. Drogula
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469621272

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Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire by Fred K. Drogula Pdf

In this work, Fred Drogula studies the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points. Beginning in the earliest years of the republic, Drogula argues, provincial command was not a uniform concept fixed in positive law but rather a dynamic set of ideas shaped by traditional practice. Therefore, as the Roman state grew, concepts of authority, control over territory, and military power underwent continual transformation. This adaptability was a tremendous resource for the Romans since it enabled them to respond to new military challenges in effective ways. But it was also a source of conflict over the roles and definitions of power. The rise of popular politics in the late republic enabled men like Pompey and Caesar to use their considerable influence to manipulate the flexible traditions of military command for their own advantage. Later, Augustus used nominal provincial commands to appease the senate even as he concentrated military and governing power under his own control by claiming supreme rule. In doing so, he laid the groundwork for the early empire's rules of command.

Author : Kit Morrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191071249

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Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire by Kit Morrell Pdf

Provincial governance under the Roman republic has long been notorious for its corrupt officials and greedy tax-farmers, though this is far from being the whole story. This book challenges the traditional picture, contending that leading late republican citizens were more concerned about the problems of their empire than is generally recognized, and took effective steps to address them. Attempts to improve provincial governance over the period 70-50 BC are examined in depth, with a particular focus on the contributions of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) and the younger Marcus Porcius Cato. These efforts ranged well beyond the sanctions of the extortion law, encompassing show trials and model governors, and drawing on principles of moral philosophy. In 52-50 BC they culminated in a coordinated reform programme which combined far-sighted administrative change with a concerted attempt to transform the ethos of provincial governance: the union of what Cicero called 'Cato's policy' of ethical governance with Pompey's lex de provinciis, a law which transformed the very nature of provincial command. Though more familiar as political opponents, Pompey and Cato were united in their interest in good governance and were capable of working alongside each other to effect positive change. This book demonstrates that it was their eventual collaboration, in the late 50s BC, that produced the republic's most significant programme of provincial reform. In the process, it offers a new perspective on these two key figures as well as an enriched understanding of provincial governance in the late Roman republic.

Author : William Thomas Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Roman provinces
ISBN : NYPL:33433081560900

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The Roman System of Provincial Administration to the Accession of Constantine the Great by William Thomas Arnold Pdf