Millar, Fergus

The emperor in the Roman world, 31 BC-AD 337 by Fergus Millar ( Book )
24 editions published between 1977 and 2001 in English and held by 1,019 libraries worldwide

Rome, the Greek world, and the East by Fergus Millar ( Book )
40 editions published between 2002 and 2008 in English and held by 946 libraries worldwide
This second volume of the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's published essays draws together 20 of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire worked in practice and what it was like to live under Roman rule.

The Roman Near East, 31 B.C.-A.D. 337 by Fergus Millar ( Book )
18 editions published between 1993 and 2005 in English and held by 926 libraries worldwide
From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step, southward to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. In a remarkable work of interpretive history, Fergus Millar shows us this world as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Judea, Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Syria. His book conveys the magnificent sweep of history as well as the rich diversity of peoples, religions, and languages that intermingle in the Roman Near East.

A study of Cassius Dio by Fergus Millar ( Book )
22 editions published between 1962 and 1999 in English and held by 911 libraries worldwide

The Roman Empire and its neighbours by Fergus Millar ( Book )
40 editions published between 1966 and 2001 in 4 languages and held by 839 libraries worldwide

The history of the Jewish people in the age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135) by Emil Schürer ( Book )
19 editions published between 1973 and 1987 in English and held by 819 libraries worldwide

Sources for ancient history ( Book )
5 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 806 libraries worldwide

Caesar Augustus : seven aspects ( Book )
14 editions published between 1984 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 679 libraries worldwide

The crowd in Rome in the late Republic by Fergus Millar ( Book )
15 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in English and held by 614 libraries worldwide
The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic explores the consequences of a democracy in which public office could only be gained by direct election by the people. And while the Senate could indeed debate public matters, advise other officeholders, and make some administrative decisions, it could not legislate. An officeholder who wanted to pass a law had to step out of the Senate-house and propose it to the people in the Forum. In an expansion and revision of his Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures, Fergus Millar explores the development of the Roman Republic, which by its final years had come to cover most of Italy. To exercise their rights, voters had to come to Rome (or to live in or near the city as about one third of them did) and to meet in the Forum. Millar takes the period from 80 to 50 B.C., the dictatorship of Sulla to Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, and shows how crowd politics was central to the great changes that took place year after year. The volume will interest general readers, as well as students of politics and Roman history. Technical terms are explained, and foreign words are kept to a minimum.

A Greek Roman Empire : power and belief under Theodosius II (408/450) by Fergus Millar ( Book )
10 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 486 libraries worldwide
"In the first half of the fifth century, the Latin-speaking part of the Roman Empire suffered vast losses of territory to barbarian invaders. But in the Greek-speaking half of the eastern Mediterranean, with its capital at Constantinople, there existed a stable and successful system, using Latin as its official language, but communicating with its subjects in Greek. This book takes an inside look at how this system worked in the long reign of the pious Christian Emperor Theodosius II (408-50), and analyzes its largely successful defense of its frontiers, its internal coherence, and its relations with its subjects, with a flow of demands and suggestions traveling up the hierarchy to the Emperor, and a long series of laws, often set out in elaborately self-justificatory detail, addressed by the Emperor, through his officials, to the people. Above all, this book focuses on the Imperial mission to promote the unity of the Church, the State's involvement in intensely debated doctrinal questions, and the calling by the Emperor of two major Church Councils at Ephesus, in 431 and 449. Between the Law codes and the acts of the Church Councils, the material illustrating the workings of government and the involvement of State and Church, is incomparably richer, more detailed, and more vivid than for any previous period."--BOOK JACKET.