Most studies of Roman local administration focus on the formal structures of power: provincial laws, imperial edicts, urban institutions and magistracies. This book explores the interplay of formal politics with informal factors such as social prejudice, parochialism and personal rivalries in the cities of northwestern Asia Minor from the first to the fifth centuries AD. Through a detailed analysis of the municipal speeches and career of the philosopher-politician Dion Chrysostomos, we gain new insights into the petty conflicts and lofty ambitions of an ancient provincial small-town politician and those around him.
Urban Life and Local Politics in Roman Bithynia : The Small World of Dion Chrysostomos
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Meetings of Cultures in the Black Sea Region : Between Conflicts and Coexistence
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Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom
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Achaemenid Impact in the Black Sea : Communication of Powers
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Cultural Interactions and Social Strategies on the Pontic Shores : Burial Customs in the Northern Black Sea Area c. 550-270 BC
Jane Hjarl Petersen
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From Goths to Varangians : Communications and Cultural Exchange Between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea
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Pottery, Peoples and Places : Study and Interpretation of Late Hellenistic Pottery
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