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Informationen zum Autor Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Wolfson College, and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Among his books on Jewish history are Rome and Jerusalem (2007) and Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Essays (2007). Klappentext The essays in this volume cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. The belief shared by all the contributors is that the Roman empire is best understood from the standpoint of the Mediterranean world looking in to Rome, rather than from Rome looking out. The papers focus on the development of political institutions in Rome itself and in her empire, and on the nature of the relationship between Rome and her provincial subjects. They also discuss historiographical approaches to different kinds of source material, literary and documentary - including the major Roman historians, the evidence for the pre-Roman near east, and the Christian writers of later antiquity. This volume reflects the immense complexity of the political and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean, from the late Republic to the age of Augustine. Zusammenfassung Features essays that cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. This volume reflects the immense complexity of the political and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean, from the late Republic to the age of Augustine. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Pursuing Democracy Sennacherib's Siege of Jerusalem In Search of the Pontic Community in Antiquity Rome and the Jews: Josephus on 'Freedom' and 'Autonomy' In arto et inglorius labor: Tacitus' anti-history Domitian's Palace on the Palatine and the Imperial Image Imperial Administration and Epigraphy: In Defence of Prosopography Lactantius and Augustine
