Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Vol. 2 - Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire

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Publication of a three-volume collection of essays, drawn from a wide
varietyofjournalsandeditedvolumes,overnearlyfourdecadesofscholarly
production,presentseditorswithsomemajorstylisticchallenges.Ourcol-
lectioncontainsmorethanfiftyessays.Mostoftheseessaysoriginallywere
published in learned journals or books, each of which had its own house
style. Some learned journals also have changed their house styles over the
timewhenMillarhaspublishedinthem.Forthesereasonswehavenotat-
temptedtobringallofthecitationsinthetextsornotesofthearticlesin
thecollectionintoperfectstylisticconformity.Conformityforthesakeof
conformity makes no sense; moreover, to achieve such conformity would
delaypublicationofthecollectionforyears.
Rather, the stylistic goal of our collection has been to inform readers
clearlyandconsistentlywheretheycanfindthesourcescitedbyMillarinhis
essays.Tohelpachievethatgoalwehaveincludedalistoffrequentlycited
works(withabbreviationsforthoseworks)atthebeginningofeachvolume.
Thus, in the text or notes of the essays, readers will find abbreviations for
frequentlycited journals or books,which are fullycited in our lists at the
beginningofeachvolume.Forexample,referencesinthenotestotheabbre-
viationJRSrefertotheJournal of Roman Studies.Fortheabbreviationsthem-
selveswehaverelieduponthestandardlistprovidedinL’Année Philologique.
Incertaincases,wheretherehavebeenindividualcitationsintheoriginal
textsornotestomoreobscurecollectionsofinscriptionsorpapyri,wehave
expanded the citations themselves in situ, rather than endlesslyexpanding
ourlistoffrequentlycitedworks.
InaccordancewithFergusMillar’swishes,forthesakeofreaderswhodo
notknowLatinorGreek,wehaveprovidedEnglishtranslationsofmostof
theextendedGreekandLatinpassagesandsomeofthetechnicaltermscited
byMillarinthetextandnotesoftheoriginalessays.Indoingso,wehavefol-
lowedthepracticeFergusMillarhimselfadoptedinTheEmperorintheRoman
Worldin1977.Webelievethatprovidingthesetranslationswillhelptomake
Millar’sessaysmorewidelyaccessible,whichistheessentialgoalofthecol-
lection.ReaderswhowishtoconsulttheoriginalGreekandLatinpassages
ortechnicaltermsthatwehavetranslatedinthecollectioncanlookupthose
passagesortechnicaltermsintheoriginal,publishedversionsoftheessays.
Theeditorswouldliketothankthemanyfriendsandcolleagueswhohave
helped us in the process of collecting these essays and preparing them for
publication.WeareindebtedfirstofalltoLewisBateman,formerlysenior
editorattheUniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,whosuggestedthebasicar-
rangement of the essays into threevolumes.We are also grateful to David
Perry,editor-in-chief,andPamelaUpton,assistantmanagingeditoratthe