Provincial At Rome
and Rome and the Balkans 80BC-AD14
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
256 pages
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9-2/5 x 6-1/5
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. Drafted in 1934-35, but laid aside in favour of The Roman Revolution (1939), The Provincial at Rome was to have been Ronald Syme's first book. It is a brilliantly written study of the enlargement of the Roman élite in the early empire, an analysis, in thirteen chapters, of the Emperor Claudius' enrolment of 'Gallic chieftains' into the Senate in AD 48. The edition also includes five unpublished papers dealing with Rome's conquest of the Balkans, a region Syme knew intimately.
Phoenix
“The editor . . . deserves congratulations not simply for making these interesting works available but also for partly rectifying the incomplete state of the footnotes left behind by the author.” –Phoenix, 2002
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
“Antony Birley and his Dusseldorf team have done a fine job in editing and presenting Syme's manuscript - clearly a considerable responsibility ... This is a fascinating book, and can be highly recommended ... it deserves attention as an historiographical gem, of enormous interest and importance in helping us understand Syme's development to become one of the greatest modern authorities on imperial Rome.” –Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 00.06.14
Professor T.P. Wiseman
“This is terrific. Syme wrote The Provincial at Rome when he was 31, with all the bravura of a brilliant young scholar confident of his powers and enjoying the opportunity to display them. Anthony Birley has done an excellent and appropriate editing job.” –Professor T.P. Wiseman, University of Exeter
Contents
Editor's Preface
Editor's Introduction
Editorial Note on The Provincial at Rome
Abbreviations
The Provincial at Rome
1 Introduction
2 The Evidence
3 Admission to the Senate
4 Provincial Senators before Augustus
5 Provincial Senators before AD 48
6 Prejudice against Provincials
7 The Virtues of Provincials
8 Roman and Provincial in Spain and Narbonensis
9 'Italicus es an provincialis?'
10 Gallia Comata
11 Claudius' Speech in Tacitus
12 The 'Oratio Claudii Caesaris'
13 New Light on Tiberius and Gaius
Additional Notes:
A Spanish senators before AD 48
B Senators from Gallia Narbonensis before AD 48
C Eastern senators before AD 48
Rome and the Balkans
Map
1 Macedonia and Dardania, 80-30 BC
1 Macedonia and Dardania, 80-30 BC
2 Proconsuls of Macedonia, 80-50 BC
3 The Status of Illyricum, 80-60 BC
4 Caesar's Designs on Dacia and Parthia
5 The Early History of Moesia
Indices
1 Persons
2 Peoples and Places
3 General
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