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1 online resource (xvi, 183 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Debates and documents in ancient history
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Debates and documents in ancient history.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-176) and index. |
| Contents |
Contents; Senior Editor's Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I Debates; Introduction: History and Narrative; 1 A Capital and its Provinces; 2 Economy, Armies and Administration; 3 Law and Citizenship; 4 Development and Perception of Emperorship; 5 Christianity and Religious Change; Conclusion; Part II Documents; 1 Cassius Dio; 2 Herodian; 3 Historia Augusta; 4 Sextus Aurelius Victor; 5 Eutropius; 6 Festus; 7 Zosimus; 8 Publius Aelius Aristides; 9 The Thirteen Sibylline Oracle; 10 Res Gestae Divi Saporis; 11 Lactantius; 12 P. Herennius Dexippus; 13 Dexippus Inscription. |
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14 Odaenathus Inscripts from CIS15 Augsburg Inscription; 16 Inscriptions from CIL; 17 Aga Bey Koyu Petition; 18 Papyrus of Isis to her Family; 19 Command of the Egyptian Prefect; 20 The Constitutio Antoniniana; 21 Digest; 22 Damnatio Memoriae in a Papyrus; 23 Oxyrhynchus papyri; 24 Inscriptions from Aphrodisias; 25 Acclamation at Perge; 26 The Feriale Duranum; 27 Trajan to Pliny; 28 Libellus of the Decian Persecution; 29 Cyprian: To Demet. |
| Summary |
This was a time of civil war, anarchy, intrigue, and assassination. Between 193 and 284 the Roman Empire knew more than twenty-five emperors, and an equal number of usurpers. All of them had some measure of success, several of them often ruling different parts of the Empire at the same time. Rome?s traditional political institutions slid into vacuity and armies became the Empire?s most powerful institutions, proclaiming their own imperial champions and deposing those they held to be incompetent. Yet despite widespread contemporary dismay at such weak government this period was also one in whic. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
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| Chronological Term |
30 B.C.-284 A.D |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Zair, Nicholas, 1982-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hekster, Olivier. Rome and its Empire, AD 193-284. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008 9780748623037 0748623035 (OCoLC)237882188 |
| ISBN |
9780748629923 (electronic book) |
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0748629920 (electronic book) |
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0748623035 (Cloth) |
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0748623043 (Paper) |
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9780748623037 (hardback) |
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9780748623044 (paperback) |
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