Fergus Millar was a British historian and Emeritus Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University. Millar ranks among the most influential ancient historians of the 20th century. His work primarily explored the social and political history of the Roman Empire. He was known for his critical perspective and emphasis on primary sources.
A clear account of all the Jewish literature produced in Late Antiquity in either Palestine or Babylonia, aiming above all to orientate students and interested non-specialists as regards what types of literature are involved and how access can be gained to texts and translations. číst celé
Focuses on the Imperial mission to promote the unity of the Church, the State's involvement in intensely-debated doctrinal questions, and the calling by the Emperor of two major Church Councils at Ephesus, in 431 and 449. This work also includes material that illustrates the working of government and the involvement of State and the church.
Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire
Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar's published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire (some of them published in inaccessible journals). Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire worked in practice and what it was like to live under Roman rule. As in the first volume of the collection, English translations of the extended Greek and Latin passages in the original articles make Millar's essays accessible to readers who do not read these languages.
To exercise their rights, voters had to come in person to Rome and to meet in the Forum. Fergus Millar takes the period from the dictatorship of Sulla to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon and shows how the politics of the crowd was central to the great changes that took place year after year.
This text provides an examination of the Roman Near East between 31 BC and 337 AD as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Judea, Arabia, Mesopotamia and Syria. The work discusses the history as well as the diversity of peoples, religions and languages that intermingled in the Roman Near East. číst celé