Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Vol. 1 - The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution

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studyMillarwillbringthestoryofGreco-RomancultureintheNearEast
fromtheearlyfourthcenturyuptotheIslamicinvasionsoftheseventhcen-
tury..
Duringthesameperiodinwhichhehasproducedtheseground-breaking
books, Millar also has published over seventy essays on aspects of Greco-
Romanhistory,fromtheHellenisticperioduntilthemiddleofthefifthcen-
tury..Theseessayshavelaidthefoundationsfororsupplementedtheideas
andargumentspresentedinMillar’sverywellknownbooks.Someofthese
essays,suchas‘‘TheEmperor,theSenateandtheProvinces’’(JournalofRoman
Studies[]:–),or‘‘Emperors,FrontiersandForeignRelations,
 ..–.. ’’(Britannia[]:–),haveappearedinhithertoacces-
sible journals and are widely regarded as classics of scholarship. But other
outstanding essays, published in specialty journals oredited volumes, such
asMillar’sstudy,‘‘PolybiusbetweenGreeceandRome’’(publishedinGreek
Connections: Essays on Culture and Diplomacy[]: –), have been more
difficulttolocate,evenforprofessionalhistoriansdoingresearchinthefield.
Therefore,theprimarygoalofourcollection,Rome, the Greek World, and
the East,istobringtogetherintothreevolumesthemostsignificantofMil-
lar’sessayspublishedsinceforthewidestaudiencepossible.Thecollec-
tionincludesmanyarticleswhichclearlywillbeofgreatintellectualinterest
andpedogogicalusetoscholarsdoingresearchandteachinginthedifferent
fieldsofthevolumeheadings:Volume,The Roman Republic and the Augustan
Revolution;Volume,Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire;
andVolume,The Greek World, the Jews, and the East.Atthesametime,we
haveconceivedandorganizedthethreevolumesofRome,theGreekWorld,and
the EastespeciallyinordertomakeMillar’smostsignificantarticlesreadily
availabletoanewgenerationofstudents.
Theprincipleofarrangementoftheessaysineachofthethreevolumes
isbroadlychronologicalbysubjectmattertreatedwithintheancientworld,
afteraninitialsectionon‘‘ConceptionsandSources’’involume.Webelieve
thatthischronologicalarrangementofessays(ratherthanbypublicationdate
oftheessays)givesintellectualcoherencetoeachvolumeonitsownandto
thecollectionasawhole.Overall,asMillarhimselfhasdefineditinthepro-
logue,thesubjectofthiscollectionis‘‘thecommunalcultureandcivilgov-
ernmentoftheGreco-Romanworld,essentiallyfromtheHellenisticperiod
tothefifthcentury..’’
Publication of a three-volume collection of essays, drawn from a wide
varietyofjournalsandeditedvolumes,overnearlyfourdecadesofscholarly
production,presentseditorswithsomemajorstylisticchallenges.Ourcol-
lectioncontainsmorethanfiftyessays.Mostoftheseessaysoriginallywere