The provincial at Rome : and, Rome and the Balkans 80BC-AD14

Authors:Ronald Syme, Anthony Birley

Summary:This volume offers a new insight into the development of a great historian, as well as giving an exciting and immensely readable new approach to late Republican and early Imperial Roman history.

Print Book, English, 1999

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Publisher: University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 1999

Genre:History

Physical Description:xxvi, 238 pages : map, portrait ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780859896320, 0859896323

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:59407034

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Provincial at Rome.

Syme, Ronald, 1903-1989.

606321866

Contents:

ContentsThe Provincial at Rome: introductionthe evidence; admission to the SenateProvincial senators before AugustusProvincial senators before AD 48prejudice against Provincialsthe virtues of ProvincialsRoman and Provincial in Spain and Narbonensis"Italicus es an provincialis?"Gallia ComataClaudius' speech in Tacitusthe"Oratio Claudii Caaesaris""new light on Tiberius and Gaius"additional notes - Spanish senators before AD 48, senators from Gallia Narbonensis before AD 48, eastern senators before AD 48.Rome and the Balkans: Macedonia and Dardnia, 80-30 BCProconsuls of Macedonia, 80-50 BCthe status of Illyricum, 80-60 BCCaesar's designs on Dacia and Parthiathe early history of Moesia.

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Includes index