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DELACORTE WORLD HISTORY VOLUME VIII The Roman Empire and Neighbours its The Roman Empire and Neighbours its EDITOR Fergus Millar CONTRIBUTORS FERGUS MILLAR BERCIU D. RICHARD FRYE N. GEORG KOSSACK TAMARA TALBOT RICE ® DELACORTE PRESS NEW YORK BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY First English Edition published under thetitletheromanempireanditsneighbours by George Weidenfeld and NicolsonLtd, London Originally publishedinGerman underthetitle DASROMISCHEREICHUNDSEINENACHBARNDIE MITTELMEERWELT IMALTERTUMIVbyFischerBiicherei KG © 1966 byFischer Bucherei KG, Frankfurt am Main 1966 © Copyright 1967 byDell PublishingCo.,Inc. NewYork and George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd, London All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reproduced in anyform orby any meanswithout the prior written permission ofthe Publisher, excepting briefquotes used in connection with reviews written specifically for inclusion in amagazine or newspaper. Library ofCongress Catalog Card Number: 68-54008 First American Edition 1 Contents Preface xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Rome, the Roman People and the Senate 13 Rome and the Roman People The Senate 3 The Emperors 33 The Office and its Setting Men and Dynasties 4 Government and Administration 52 5 State and Subject: the Cities 81 6 The Army and the Frontiers 104 7 Italy 127 8 The Western Provinces: Gaul, Spain and Britain 146 9 Africa 169 10 Egypt 182 1 The Greek Provinces 195 12 The Balkan and Danubian Provinces 221 CONTENTS 13 The Empire and the Third-Century Crisis 239 14 Parthia and Sasanid Persia 249 15 The Dacians in the First Century ad: the Roman Conquest 270 Translatedfrom the French by Odile Gomez 16 The Scytho-Sarmatian Tribes of South-Eastern Europe 281 17 The Germans 294 History down to the Establishment ofthe Limes Distribution and Settlement Social Development Second- and Third-Century Developments Translated from the German by Carla Wartenberg List of Emperors 321 Notes 323 BibUography 336 Index 347 31 List of Illustrations (between pages 168 and 169) 1 Roman coins dating from ad 96-8 and ad 229 2 Trajan portrayed on Trajan's Column 3 The 'Golden House' of Nero 4 Hadrian's villa at Tivoli 5 Hadrian's Wall 6 A scene from Trajan's Column 7 The 'House of the Menander' at Pompeii 8 The Arch at Saintes 9 The main Roman baths at Paris 10 The bridge across the Tagus at Alcantara 1 The amphitheatre of Italica near Seville 12 A gravestone from Camulodunum (Colchester) 1 Marble head of Mithras 14 Lepcis Magna 15 Tiberius portrayed in Egypt 16 Native art in Roman Egypt 17 Papyrus fragments of the New Testament 18 Artemis of the Ephesians 19 Soldiers of the Praetorian Cohorts 20 The Arch of Hadrian at Athens 21 The Herulian invasion ofAthens, ad 267 22 Mosaic from Edessa 23 Native dress in Noricum 24 A gravestone from Carnuntum 25 Septimius Severus 26 The church at Dura-Europus 27 The North Gallic reaping machine 1 ILLUSTRATIONS 28 Mercury as a Gallic god 29 Leather 'letter' with Pahlavi writing 30 Impressions of seals, and Parthian coins 3 Head ofa Dacian 32 A noble Dacian 33 Personification ofthe province of Dacia 34 Siege of Sarmizegethusa 35 Sarmatian goldwork 36 Farm settlement in Frisia 37 Late Roman settlement in North Jutland 38 Settlement at Barhorst bei Nauen, Brandenburg 39 Grave-relieffrom Palmyra Maps The Roman Empire in ad 14 108 The Roman Empire in ad 214 109 Iran in the Parthian and Sasanid period 251 Maps by Design Practitioners
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