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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.
Price: $227.00
Pages: 358
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Impact of Empire
Publication Date:
21 November 2014
ISBN: 9789004283718
Format: Hardcover
"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
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.