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Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography
Studies in Honor of Richard J.A. Talbert
Series: - Impact of Empire, Volume: 19
In Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography colleagues and students honor Richard J.A. Talbert for his numerous contributions and influence on the fields of ancient history, political and social science, as well as cartography and geography. This collection of original and useful examinations is focused around the core theme of Talbert’s work – how ancient individuals and groups organized their world, through their institutions and geography.
The first half of the book considers institutional history in chapters on such diverse topics as the Roman Senate, Roman provincial politics and administration, healing springs, gladiators, and soldiers. Chapters on the geography of Thucydides and Alexander III, imperial geography, tracking letters and using sundials round out the second half of the book.
The first half of the book considers institutional history in chapters on such diverse topics as the Roman Senate, Roman provincial politics and administration, healing springs, gladiators, and soldiers. Chapters on the geography of Thucydides and Alexander III, imperial geography, tracking letters and using sundials round out the second half of the book.
Lee L. Brice is Professor of Ancient History at Western Illinois University (USA). He specializes in military unrest in the ancient world and in Corinthian numismatics. He has published three edited volumes on ancient warfare as well as articles and chapters on military unrest, pedagogy, experimental history, military history, and the coins of Corinth. He is series editor of Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean (Brill).
Daniëlle Slootjes is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). Her research focuses on the period of Late Antiquity with a particular interest in late antique Roman administration, provincial governors and geography, as well as the history of early Christianity. Recently, she has started a project on urban crowd control in the Roman world.
Contributors are: Leanne Bablitz, Sarah E. Bond, Mary T. Boatwright, Lee L. Brice, John F. Donahue, Werner Eck, Tom Elliott, Garrett G. Fagan, Christopher Fuhrmann, Cheryl L. Golden, George W. Houston, Jerzy Linderski, Michael Maas, Fred S. Naiden, Jonathan Scott Perry, Daniëlle Slootjes, Philip A. Stadter, Brian Turner.
Daniëlle Slootjes is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). Her research focuses on the period of Late Antiquity with a particular interest in late antique Roman administration, provincial governors and geography, as well as the history of early Christianity. Recently, she has started a project on urban crowd control in the Roman world.
Contributors are: Leanne Bablitz, Sarah E. Bond, Mary T. Boatwright, Lee L. Brice, John F. Donahue, Werner Eck, Tom Elliott, Garrett G. Fagan, Christopher Fuhrmann, Cheryl L. Golden, George W. Houston, Jerzy Linderski, Michael Maas, Fred S. Naiden, Jonathan Scott Perry, Daniëlle Slootjes, Philip A. Stadter, Brian Turner.
"The volume achieves three distinct objectives. First, by adopting a diachronic approach, the editors encourage the reader to draw connections across time and discipline. (...) Second, while this volume, as is typical with Festschriften, demonstrates an extraordinary diversity in topics, each article remains extraordinarily accessible. As such, even non-experts would find a starting point for further exploration. Third, Talbert’s scholarship is a part of each paper, demonstrating further his broad influence on scholarship of antiquity. Scholars, though their interests may range from Alexander’s wars to late-antique dioceses, will find something of value in this volume, not just in their area of expertise, but in others as well. Much like Talbert’s many important contributions, this volume should find itself in libraries of ancient historians and philologist of extremely diverse interests." Laurent J. Cases in BMCR 2018.12.42
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Maps
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 - Introduction
Chaps and Maps: Reflections on a Career with Institutional and Cartographic History
Lee L. Brice and Daniëlle Slootjes
Cumulative Bibliography of Works by Richard J.A. Talbert
Tom Elliott
Part 2 - Roman Institutions
1 Plutarchan Prosopography: The Cursus Honorum
Philip A. Stadter
2 The Lex Julia de Senatu Habendo: A View from the 1930s
Jonathan Scott Perry
3 Tacitus on Trial(s)
Leanne Bablitz
4 Curial Communiqué: Memory, Propaganda, and the Roman Senate House
Sarah E. Bond
5 Second Chance for Valor: Restoration of Order After Mutinies and Indiscipline
Lee L. Brice
6 Training Gladiators: Life in the Ludus
Garrett G. Fagan
7 Statuenehrungen als Zeugnis für den Einfluss römischer Amtsträger im Leben einer Provinz
Werner Eck
8 Dio Chrysostom as a Local Politician: A Critical Reappraisal
Christopher J. Fuhrmann
9 Late Antique Administrative Structures: On the Meaning of Dioceses and their Borders in the Fourth Century AD
Daniëlle Slootjes
Part 3 - Geography and Cartographic History
10 The Geography of Thucydides
Cheryl L. Golden
11 An Anatolian Itinerary, 334–333 BC
Fred S. Naiden
12 Visualizing Empire in Imperial Rome
Mary T. Boatwright
13 The Provinces and Worldview of Velleius Paterculus
Brian Turner
14 Litterae Datae Blandenone: A Letter in Search of a Posting Address
Jerzy Linderski
15 Using Sundials
George W. Houston
16 The Healing Springs of Latium and Etruria
John F. Donahue
17 The Shaping Hand of the Environment: Three Phases of Development in Classical Antiquity
Michael Maas
Geographic Index
General Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Maps
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 - Introduction
Chaps and Maps: Reflections on a Career with Institutional and Cartographic History
Lee L. Brice and Daniëlle Slootjes
Cumulative Bibliography of Works by Richard J.A. Talbert
Tom Elliott
Part 2 - Roman Institutions
1 Plutarchan Prosopography: The Cursus Honorum
Philip A. Stadter
2 The Lex Julia de Senatu Habendo: A View from the 1930s
Jonathan Scott Perry
3 Tacitus on Trial(s)
Leanne Bablitz
4 Curial Communiqué: Memory, Propaganda, and the Roman Senate House
Sarah E. Bond
5 Second Chance for Valor: Restoration of Order After Mutinies and Indiscipline
Lee L. Brice
6 Training Gladiators: Life in the Ludus
Garrett G. Fagan
7 Statuenehrungen als Zeugnis für den Einfluss römischer Amtsträger im Leben einer Provinz
Werner Eck
8 Dio Chrysostom as a Local Politician: A Critical Reappraisal
Christopher J. Fuhrmann
9 Late Antique Administrative Structures: On the Meaning of Dioceses and their Borders in the Fourth Century AD
Daniëlle Slootjes
Part 3 - Geography and Cartographic History
10 The Geography of Thucydides
Cheryl L. Golden
11 An Anatolian Itinerary, 334–333 BC
Fred S. Naiden
12 Visualizing Empire in Imperial Rome
Mary T. Boatwright
13 The Provinces and Worldview of Velleius Paterculus
Brian Turner
14 Litterae Datae Blandenone: A Letter in Search of a Posting Address
Jerzy Linderski
15 Using Sundials
George W. Houston
16 The Healing Springs of Latium and Etruria
John F. Donahue
17 The Shaping Hand of the Environment: Three Phases of Development in Classical Antiquity
Michael Maas
Geographic Index
General Index
Institutes, libraries, and all readers interested in Ancient Greece and Rome and those with particular interests in cartography, geography, political institutions, military history, gladiators, Roman literature, Thucydides, Alexander the Great.