Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship
in the first three centuries AD. Emperors and Ancestors is the first systematic analysis of the …

What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain
when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And …

This article presents 33 Greek inscriptions found at Aphrodisias between 1995 and 2001.
They include an honorary decree, honorary inscriptions of other types, statue bases …

Abstract· The paper considers the question of how we model imperial government in
Antiquity. It does so in light of two issues. First, the partial nature of surviving evidence …

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The Gregorian and Hermogenian Codes do not survive and so have to be imagined from
their remains recycled into other late antique legal works, in particular the Justinian Code …

Any study or assessment of the Flavian Age and its emperors must begin with the question
of the sources upon which the knowledge of this period rests, and a vetting of those sources …

This chapter examines juridical epigraphy, that is, normative texts involving officials and
organs of the Roman state (“sources of law”) and private legal documents, such as wills …

Despite the importance of the army in achieving and preserving power, the Roman Empire
was not, from a legal perspective, an autocracy simply acquired through and based on …

This paper is one of a series of preliminary studies that I hope will eventually end in a book-
length study of the history of law in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. The history …