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Broschur. Zustand: Gut. 130-256 S. German / English. - Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / A good and clean copy. - INHALT DES XXXIV. BANDES, HEFT 2 ABHANDLUNGEN GEORGE Stagakis (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Homeric Warfare Practices S. PERLMAN (Tel-Aviv University), Greek Diplomatic Tradition and the Corinthian League of Philip of Macedon Alan E. Astin (The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; The Queen's University of Belfast), Censorships in the Late Republic LEONHARD Schumacher (Kiel), Die imperatorischen Akklamationen der Triumvirn und die auspicia des Augustus Edwin S. Ramage (Indiana University), Augustus' Treatment of Julius Caesar MISZELLEN Edward M. Anson (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), The Hypaspists: Macedonia's Professional Citizen-Soldiers J. LlNDERSKI (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), The Dramatic Date of Varro, de re rustica. Book III and the Elections in 54 C. L. MURISON (University of Western Ontario), Galba in Germany, A. D. 43 ? Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Zustand: Gut. S. 308-322. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) . - Mit Widmung des Rezensenten. - Einband berieben und bestoßen, papierbedingt leicht gebräunt, sonst sauber. - Aus der Rezension: Mit diesem Werke, das im weitgespannten Rahmen der Histoire Générale die römische Geschichte abschließt, gibt uns P. als hervorragender Kenner des späten Imperiums eine neue, mit umfassenden Einzelbelegen ausgestattete Darstellung des christlichen Römerreiches vom Konzil von Nicaea (325) bis zum Tode des Kaisers Theodosius I. (395) und füllt damit eine für jeden Mitforscher spürbare Lücke in der Literatur aus. Seit dem Erscheinen des verdienstvollen ersten Bandes von Ernst Steins »Geschichte des spätrömischen Reiches« (1928), in dem dieser wichtige historische Abschnitt zuletzt eine eingehendere Würdigung erfahren hatte, waren immerhin fast zwei Jahrzehnte verflossen, die in den Forschungen zur Spätantike auf vielen Gebieten wesentliche Fortschritte gebracht hatten. Die inzwischen neugewonnenen Erkenntnisse erforderten wiederum eine kritische Gesamtschau, eine Aufgabe, die bei dem Verfasser in den besten Händen lag. Zu ihrer Bewältigung konnte er wie kaum ein anderer auf eine oft bewiesene, nach jeder Richtung souveräne Beherrschung des Stoffes zurückgreifen. Dies zeigt sich schon am Eingang des Werkes in dem knappen Überblick über Quellen und Bibliographie (S. VIIXVI), der sicher nicht nur dem durch Krieg und Nachkriegszeit von vielen ausländischen Neuerscheinungen abgeschnittenen deutschen Leser wertvolle Hinweise und Anregungen geben wird. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Sonderdruck, Klebebindung in Papiereinband.

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Originalbroschur. Zustand: Gut. 108 S. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Zustand: Klaffender, beschmutzter Einband. Vergilbte Seitenränder. Ansonsten im sehr guten Zustand. Beiliegend ein Korrigenda-Zettel. / Condition: Gappy, soiled binding. Yellowed page edges. Otherwise in very good condition. Enclosed is a corrigenda slip. - Inhalt: Eine neuerliche Untersuchung der Anfänge des Zweiten Punischen Krieges bedarf - wie wenige Themen sonst - der Rechtfertigung: Die welthistorische Bedeutung des Ereignisses steht außer Zweifel, doch scheint ihr durch eine dem Rang des Gegenstandes angemessene Fülle eindringlicher Studien hinreichend Genüge getan zu sein. Das Schrifttum ist kaum mehr überschaubar, aber was auch immer man davon sichtet, stimmt in einem doch offensichtlich überein: in dem Bemühen, auf irgendeine Weise Hasdrubals Ebrovertrag und die Einnahme Sagunts durch Hannibal in Verbindung zu bringen und den zweiten zwischen Rom und Karthago geführten Krieg als die unvermeidliche Konsequenz der Aktionen Hannibals in Spanien zu erklären. Dieser grundsätzliche Konsens spiegelt die polybianische Sicht des Zweiten Punischen Krieges wider und markiert zugleich die Schranken, innerhalb derer sich, sonstiger Unterschiede ungeachtet, die Rekonstruktion des Geschehenen halten wird, solange Polybios als geradezu wesensverschieden gegen die spätere Historiographie abgegrenzt und daher von jener radikalen Kritik ausgenommen wird, die der Annalistik gegenüber als fraglos angebracht gilt. War schon die relativ frühe Entstehungszeit des polybianischen Geschichtswerkes dem Vertrauen in seine Glaubwürdigkeit durchaus zuträglich, so wurde dieses durch den Blick auf die intellektuelle Kraft des Geschichtsdenkers Polybios nur bestärkt. Daß historische Tatsachen freilich eher dem reflektierenden Geschichtsdeuter im Wege sind als dem nur konstatierenden Geschichtsschreiber, wurde allzu häufig übersehen. Zwischen Hannibal und dem Werk des Polybios liegt eine Zeitspanne von mehr als zwei Generationen. Das Wissen um die Geschichte des Zweiten Punischen Krieges verdankte Polybios ebenso wie seine Zeitgenossen allein noch einer schriftlichen Tradition, aus der sich, vom möglichen Einspruch der Augenzeugen unbehelligt, durch Verwertung oder Verwerfung einzelner Komponenten ein neues Bild der Ereignisse und ihrer Hintergründe zeichnen ließ. Daß die nachpolybianische Annalistik mit der Verformung der vorgefundenen Überlieferung das Ziel verfolgte, die römische Rechtsposition hinsichtlich der Kriegserklärung an Karthago durch fiktive Angaben über die damalige Vertragslage zu beschönigen, ist längst erkannt. Indes ist nicht oder jedenfalls nicht mit der nötigen Entschiedenheit die Frage erhoben worden, wodurch die annalistischen Erfindungen hervorgerufen wurden und in welchem Maße bereits Polybios retuschierend oder verfälschend in die Überlieferung der für den Kriegsausbruch maßgebenden Vertragssituation eingegriffen hat. / Content: A renewed study of the beginnings of the Second Punic War needs - like few other topics - justification: The world-historical importance of the event is beyond doubt, but it seems to have been sufficiently satisfied by a wealth of penetrating studies commensurate with the rank of the subject. The literature is hardly manageable any more, but whatever one sifts from it, there is an obvious consensus on one thing: the effort to connect in some way Hasdrubal's Ebro treaty and Hannibal's capture of Sagunt and to explain the second war fought between Rome and Carthage as the inevitable consequence of Hannibal's actions in Spain.This fundamental consensus reflects the Polybian view of the Second Punic War and at the same time marks the boundaries within which, regardless of other differences, the reconstruction of what happened will remain, as long as Polybios is demarcated as almost essentially different from later historiography and therefore exempt from the radical criticism that is considered unquestionably appropriate to annalistics. If the relatively early time of origin of the Polybian historical work was already quite conducive to confidence in its credibility, this was only strengthened by the view of the intellectual power of the historical thinker Polybios. The fact that historical facts are rather in the way of the reflecting historical interpreter than of the merely stating historian was too often overlooked. Between Hannibal and the work of Polybios lies a time span of more than two generations. The knowledge about the history of the Second Punic War owed Polybios as well as his contemporaries only to a written tradition, from which, untroubled by the possible objection of the eyewitnesses, a new picture of the events and their background could be drawn by utilizing or rejecting individual components. It has long been recognized that the post-Polybian annalistics, by deforming the existing tradition, pursued the goal of embellishing the Roman legal position with regard to the declaration of war on Carthage by fictitious statements about the contractual situation at that time. However, the question has not been raised, or at least not with the necessary determination, what caused the annalistic inventions and to what extent Polybios already intervened in a retouching or falsifying manner in the tradition of the contractual situation decisive for the outbreak of war. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 165 S. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // Was the Athenian democracy anarchic, given to domestic violence and hence unstable, as claimed by some scholars, or was it a stable, well-ordered, social system, provided with in-built mechanisms to overcome crisis? Various aspects of this question, central to the understanding of the Athenian democracy, are investigated in this volume by a team of distinguished experts. The often surprising answers they provide should be of interest to specialists as well as laymen ISBN: 9783515098670 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 426.

Karton. Zustand: Gut. 81 S. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband leicht berieben, Ecken bestoßen, insgesamt altersbedingt vergilbt, sonst guter Zustand / Binding slightly rubbed, corners bumped, overall age yellowed, otherwise good condition. - INTRODUCTION Roman colonies and colonization have been dealt with in a great number of studies during the last hundred years. The study of the Roman municipia has been less popular, but during recent decades they too, have received an ever increasing amount of scholarly attention. In this light it is rather surprising that no general survey has been attempted on the fora except for Beloch's short chapter on them in his Der italische Bund unter Roms Hegemonie, which was published almost a hundred years ago, and the 'Forum' article by Schulten in Pauly-Wissowa's Real-Encyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft1. No doubt the primary reason for this scholarly neglect of the fora has been the fact that for once, all problems seemed to have been neatly solved already long ago. Indeed, ever since the Renaissance2 it has been a unanimously accepted view that the fora were road-posts founded by Roman consuls or censors in connection with the building of the Roman Viae3. It is only quite recently that these ideas have received some airing by two scholars. Radke, while writing about Roman roads, claimed that the fora were founded not only as road-posts on the Viae, but exactly halfway along them4. On the other hand, while writing on Italian manpower, Brunt pointed out that all the fora need not have been founded during the same years the Roman roads were constructed5; incidentally, Beloch also suggested this, though so far little heed has been paid to his words6. The object of this study is to gain some fresh insight on the fora by focusing the attention on the fora themselves. To this purpose the concept forum, the prevalent ideas about the fora, their rise, dating, nomenclature, administration and territories will be discussed in the light of the ancient literary sources. Also the archaeological evidence which has never been discussed in connection with the fora will be dealt with, meagre though it is. As the sites of several places that bore the name forum in the ancient sources are not known, a special chapter is also devoted to their identification. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 177 S. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // While Jewish Palestine has been at the focus of scholarly interest, Greek Palestine has not yet received similar attention. This book attempts to investigate the intellectual life in that country in the Hellenistic world and in the Roman Empire. The two perspectives taken are a full prosopographical survey of Greek intellectuals in ancient Palestine and an in-depth study of the Greek intellectuals in one particular city, Ascalon. A survey of the penetration of Latin among the educated Greek-speaking inhabitants of the country concludes the book. ISBN: 9783515106177 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 433.

Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 171 S., mit 70 s/w-Abb. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // The "Artemidorus Papyrus" (P. Artemid.), first published in 2008, is potentially the most significant new discovery in recent years for a range of fields within Classics: the history of drawing in the Greco-Roman world and more generally issues in the history of art, the history of ancient mapping, and the history of geographical writing in Hellenistic Egypt. Its spectacular and unprecedented collection of images and texts has been the subject of lively and impassioned debate. At a recent conference at St John's College, Oxford, an international panel of scholars discussed the artefact, the images, the map and the texts on the papyrus. ISBN: 9783515094269 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 414.

Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 162 S., mit 6 s/w-Abb. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // Apollodorus of Damascus is the best-known architektôn of the early second century AD, the era of Trajan and Hadrian. In the civil domain he is credited with planning and constructing prestigious projects in Rome itself, including Trajan`s Forum and Baths; in the military sphere he bridged the Danube and wrote a Siege-matters treatise for his patron-emperor. Addressed (it is argued here) to Trajan rather than Hadrian, and with a view to the campaigning conditions anticipated in Dacia, the treatise therefore proffered suggestions and designs suitable for a Roman army operating in that rugged terrain and attacking its hill-top settlements. However, as P. H. Blyth first realised, what has been transmitted under Apollodorus` name includes many later elaborations, armchair-fantasy inventions which, if ever built, could never have been effective. This, the work`s first English translation and the first full commentary on it in any language, gives modern readers criteria for differentiating between these two disparate categories of material, thus allowing an assessment of each component in the terms appropriate to it. ISBN: 9783515097109 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 405.

Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 243 S.; mit 2 s/w-Abb. u. 2 Tab. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // This study is the first comprehensive treatment of the provincial allocations system in the late Roman Republic, between the provincial law carried by Gaius Gracchus in 123 BCE and that carried by Pompeius Magnus in 52 BCE. It considers the actual process of allocations, from the Senate`s decree of consular and praetorian provinces through to the transfer of command on the ground. Different chapters address the system of allotment (sortitio), the authorisation of troops and funds (ornatio), and the ritual prerequisites for departure, all based solidly on the surviving evidence. An appendix recording the Senate`s year-by-year decisions supports this and allows us to see trends in the data. Since provincial questions were of central importance to the senatorial class, they were the source of many of the political contests which dominate our source record. And at every stage, the institutions shaped the politics. A new picture emerges, of structural conflicts revolving around the relationship between consuls and tribunes. As Rafferty argues, this made the provincial allocations system one of the central causes of Rome`s growing political dysfunction in the late Republic. ISBN: 9783515121194 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 549.

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Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 167 S., mit 4 s/w-Abb. im Text u. 47 s/w-Abb. auf Taf. im Anhang. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // Beneath the shining world of the citizen of Classical Athens was the perilous shadow-realm of the resident foreigner, the metic. Emblematic of the status of metic was the requirement to pay a special metic tax, the metoikion. And if a metic failed to pay this tax, he or she would be sold into slavery, a fate that threatened no citizen of the classical Athenian polis. In the late fourth century BC the Athenians, in the face of widespread departure of metics in the face of economic recession and legal harassment, moved to improve metics' legal situation in order to entice metics back to Athens. It is to the context of these legal reforms of the metic condition, this volume argues, that a celebrated set of fourth-century BC Athenian inscriptions recording dedications of silver cups, phialai, belong. Known since the nineteenth century as the "Attic Manumissions", these inscriptions have been thought to be the result of a legal process by which slaves were set free. Here these inscriptions are published as a corpus for the first time. And it is argued that they represent not the freeing of slaves, but preserve instead the traces of prosecutions of metics for failure to pay the metoikion. In the new pro-metic atmosphere of the 330s BC, persons who sued metics for failing to pay the metic tax, but did not win a conviction, were fined to discourage frivolous suits, and part of that fine was dedicated to divinity in the form of a phiale. ISBN: 9783515093316 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 546.

Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 200 S. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // This book offers a new study of the political and military history of the Greek Aegean between the Peloponnesian War and the Peace of Antalcidas. Following the career of Conon, the Athenian admiral who became commander of the Persian fleet after his city`s defeat by Sparta, this volume offers a new perspective on a very important period of Greek history by examining the impact of the rivalry between Persian satraps in the affairs of the Hellenic cities, the development of new military practices and the linkage between war, politics and society. Moving from an analysis of Conon`s career in the course of the Peloponnesian War, Luca Asmonti considers the transformation of the duties of military commanders and their growing political and diplomatic responsibilities. He argues that Conon was hired by the satrap Pharnabazus to carry out a thorough reform of the Persian fleet inspired by the new `grand strategy` which had developed in the course of the conflict between Athens and Sparta. Following Conon`s activity after his return to Athens and his failure to give Athens a leading role after Sparta`s defeat at Cnidus, Asmonti discusses how the Persian satraps used the politics of "liberty" and "autonomy" to stabilize the turbulent regions of Asia Minor and keep the world of the Greek city-states divided. ISBN: 9783515109017 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 466.

Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 304 S., mit 2 s/w-Abb. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // From assemblies to courts of justice, from the Senate to the battlefield, from Rome to the provinces: public opinion could vary and take many guises. Roman politicians were aware of its existence and influence, and engaged with it. This book offers a study of public opinion in the Roman Republic, with an emphasis from the 3rd to 1st centuries BC. It focusses on four main issues: nature and components of public opinion; public opinion in relation to military and administrative questions; the interaction between public opinion and public dialogue and, finally, the transmission of public opinion. It furthermore asks the following question: Who was the populus Romanus? How did public opinion influence specific political or military decisions? Can Habermas` view of public opinion be applied to the Roman Republic? How was the rhetoric of fear applied to public opinion? Drawing on the more recent interpretations of Roman Republic, this volume studies the mechanisms that make public opinion and politics work at many different levels. It provides an engaging view on political communication and the interaction between the elite and the people. ISBN: 9783515121729 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 635.

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Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 208 S. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // The so-called Chronica urbis Romae has long been valued for the exact year-month-day figures that it gives for the reign of every Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to Licinius, especially those for the emperors of the third century, whose dates of accession and death are for the most part unknown. This book, for the first time, submits every year-month-day figure found in this text to a detailed historiographical analysis that puts our understanding of the historical accounts of the chronologies of the Roman emperors particularly those of the third century on a completely new footing. In so doing it provides new insights into the nature of this text and the methods of Roman historians. This volume concludes with detailed studies of the chronological information on Roman emperors provided by Cassius Dio and the witnesses to the now-lost fourth-century Kaisergeschichte; a new critical edition and translation of the text based upon a fresh examination of all the manuscripts and made in the light of recent studies; and an analysis of the verbal parallels between this text and other surviving Greek and Latin histories, particularly those of the fourth century. ISBN: 9783515107259 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 477.

Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 197 S. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // What does it mean to belong to a community? How is membership conceptualised and in what way is the position of newcomers negotiated and the community's cohesion secured? Although no clear definition of citizenship survives from classical Athens, many sources include the statement that belonging to the polis consisted of participation in public life, often specified as sharing in the ritual obligations of the Athenians. Contrary to the still prevalent understanding of the Athenian polis as a city-state run by politically privileged men, this book explores this notion of the polis as a cultic and participatory community. In that context it reconsiders the position of immigrants in Athens, who are commonly viewed as outsiders or even anti-citizens in modern research. It is argued that as immigrants were gradually included in Athenian polis religion as metics, they should, at least to a degree, be considered members of the polis. In order to arrive at a better understanding of the ways in which the demos conceptualised this separate membership for immigrants, this book investigates the participation of metics in several polis and deme rites. ISBN: 9783515106429 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 498.

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Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 225 S. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // Modern interpretations of the late Roman Republic have been dominated by the twin concepts of `populares` and `optimates`, commonly assumed to refer to two antithetical political categories. However, the definition of these groups is much debated: some historians see them as ideological movements or traditions, others as differences of political style and method. This book asks whether this debate may in fact be chasing a mirage. Through a detailed analysis of the usage of the two terms in Cicero and his close contemporaries, it is argued that they carried no clear political meaning. What emerges instead is a political language focused on the elite`s fundamental concerns about internal divisions and the maintenance of aristocratic consensus. ISBN: 9783515096430 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 518.

Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 260 S., mit 10 s/w-Abb. u. 2 Karten. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // This is the first intensive analysis of one of the most significant figures in Greek history: Polycrates, the 6th century BC Greek tyrant of Samos island, who was renowned for unassailable control of the Aegean Sea when Egypt and Persia were competing for dominance in the area. Polycrates played a pivotal role in this tumultuous period, and in the histories of Archaic Greece, Achaemenid Persia, and Saïte Egypt. The chronological extent of this book ranges from the late 7th century BC to Polycrates' death in 522 BC. Key questions concern the basis of his tyranny within the context of earlier Samian history, his alliance with Egypt, his possible support for the Persian invasion of Egypt c. 525 BC, and the reason for an attack on him by Sparta at roughly the same time. With sensitive use of Near Eastern evidence, a new picture emerges of Greek relations with the Near Eastern empires one that has profound implications for traditional concepts of both tyranny and voluntary mercenary service in the archaic period. ISBN: 9783515108980 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 562.

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Gr.-8°, Ppbd. 283 S. Neuwertiges Ex. / Fine Copy // While previous research has focused on the public discourse of wealth, little attention has thus far been paid to the perception of poverty and attitudes toward it in classical Athens. This book argues that a public discourse of poverty in Athens can be reconstructed from sources dating from the 430s to the 330s BC. Athenian democracy promoted ideas about poverty that could substantially contribute to the stability of the political system, while simultaneously differentiating between destitution and "good poverty" the latter being a legitimate condition for a citizen and beneficial to the polis. After a preliminary discussion of the debate over the definition of poverty in the social sciences, Lucia Cecchet explores the web of beliefs and the collective imaginary of poverty that emerge from classical Athenian sources addressed to large audiences: drama and oratory. The frequency with which images and ideas about "the poor" occur in these sources testifies to an ongoing discussion of the causes and effects of poverty and even possible solutions to this social problem. These sources allow us to investigate how these topics were used in drama, in the Assembly and in the jury courts to arouse emotions and influence public decisions. ISBN: 9783515111607 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 632.