Imperialism in the Ancient World: The Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History

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Cambridge University Press, 15 févr. 2007 - 404 pages
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The economics of imperialism, its political background and institutional frameworks, the material benefits it conferred, the ideologies of ruler and ruled - these are some of the more important aspects of imperialism discussed in this volume. In presenting the evidence for ancient imperialims and suggesting concepts and methods of interpretation these articles, which are the work of the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History, range from New Kingdom Egypt and Carthage, through the classical Greek world of Athens and Sparta, to Macedonia and Rome. This book will be particularly useful to ancient historians but should also interest historian of other periods as well as students of politics.
 

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INTRODUCTION
1
IMPERIALISM AND EMPIRE IN NEW KINGDOM EGYPT
7
CARTHAGINIAN IMPERIALISM IN THE FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES
59
SPARTAN IMPERIALISM?
91
THE FIFTHCENTURY ATHENIAN EMPIRE A BALANCESHEET
103
ATHENS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY
127
THE ANTIGONIDS AND THE GREEK STATES 276196 BC
145
LAUS IMPERII
159
GREEK INTELLECTUALS AND THE ROMAN ARISTOCRACY IN THE FIRST CENTURY BC
193
THE BENEFICIAL IDEOLOGY
209
ROMES AFRICAN EMPIRE UNDER THE PRINCIPATE
223
JEWISH ATTITUDES TO THE ROMAN EMPIRE
255
Notes
283
Bibliography
359
Index
374
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Page 253 - ... gods, whom from the cradle you were taught to fear rather than to know familiarly; not to dogmatize about divinities, but to believe our forefathers who, in an age still rude, in the world's nativity, were privileged to regard gods as kindly or as kings! Hence it is that throughout wide empires, provinces and towns, we see each people having its own individual rites and worshipping its local gods, the Eleusinians Ceres...
Page 125 - ... in accepting an empire when it was offered to us and then in refusing to give it up. Three very powerful motives prevent us from doing so - security, honour, and self-interest.
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C. R. Whittaker was university lecturer in classics and fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University.

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