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Title Diplomats and diplomacy in the Roman world / edited by Claude Eilers.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome.
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Series Mnemosyne. Supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 0169-8958 ; volume 304
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 304.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
Contents Roman perspectives on Greek diplomacy / Sheila L. Ager -- Public opinion, foreign policy and 'just war' in the late republic / Alexander Yakobson -- Rome, kinship and diplomacy / Filippo Battistoni -- Diplomacy and identity among Jews and Christians / James B. Rives -- After the embassy to Rome : publication and implementation / Jean-Louis Ferrary -- Diplomacy in Italy in the second century BC / Martin Jehne -- Embassies gone wrong : Roman diplomacy in the Constantinian Excerpta de legationibus / T. Corey Brennan -- Diplomacy as part of the administrative process in the Roman empire / Werner Eck -- Not official, but permanent : Roman presence in allied states--the examples of Chersonesus Taurica, the Bosporan kingdom and Sumatar Harabesi / Rudolf Haensch.
Summary The Roman world was fundamentally a face-to-face culture, where it was expected that communication and negotiations would be done in person. This title includes papers that offer ten perspectives on the way in which ambassadors, embassies, and the institutional apparatuses supporting them contributed to Roman rule.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Rome -- Foreign relations.
Rome (Empire)
International relations.
Diplomats -- Rome -- History.
Rome -- History.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Eilers, Claude, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Diplomats and diplomacy in the Roman world. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004170988 (DLC) 2008047449 (OCoLC)265094910
ISBN 9789047424291 (electronic book)
9047424298 (electronic book)
9789004170988 (cloth)
9004170987 (cloth)
1282400134
9781282400139
9786612400131
6612400137
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004170988.i-256