TAILIEUCHUNG - The Language of Empire

The process which has resulted in this book began many decades ago when, as an undergraduate student, I found myself asking the question, ‘What did the Romans think they were doing when they created the Roman Empire?’ For many years this question lurked in the background of my thoughts as I worked on Roman history more generally and on Roman Spain in particular, not least because itwas not clear tome howsuch a questionmight be follows is, I hope, if not an answer, at least a contribution towards one. It emerged not least from a remark made in passing by Fergus Millar, that to understandwhat imperiummeant itwould be. | The Language of Empire Rome and the Idea of Empire from the Third Century BC to the Second Century Al John Richardson 9 9780521815017 Cambridge This page intentionally left blank the language of empire The Roman Empire has been an object of fascination for the past two millennia and the story of how a small city in central Italy came to dominate the whole of the Mediterranean basin most of modern Europe and the lands of Asia Minor and the Middle East has often been told. It has provided the model for European empires from Charlemagne to Queen Victoria and beyond and it is still the basis of comparison for investigators of modern imperialisms. By an exhaustive investigation of the changing meanings of certain key words and their use in the substantial remains of Roman writings and in the structures of Roman political life this book seeks to discover what the Romans themselves thought about their imperial power in the centuries in which they conquered the known world and formed the Empire of the first and second centuries ad. John Richardson is Emeritus Professor of Classics University of Edinburgh. He has written on Roman Spain Hispaniae Spain and the Development of Roman Imperialism 218 82 bc 1986 The Romans in Spain 1996 and Appian Wars of the Romans in Iberia 2000 and he has contributed articles on Roman imperialism and Roman provincial administration to the Oxford Classical Dictionary 3rd edition 1996 and the Cambridge Ancient History volume IX 2nd edition 1994

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• Imperium and provincia
• imperium Romanum
• imperium populi Romani
• Cicero analysis
• Ideas of empire
• After Augustus