Brilliant in conception and flowing in style, Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire documents Roman expansion in what came to be the beginnings of the early imperial period. In an inimitable way, the author of this groundbreaking work explores how Romans came to map the world they knew and conquered. Claude Nicolet studies both the agrimensores, who in the state’s interest took care to observe and record territories for Britain to the farther reaches of Asia Minor, and M. Vipsanius Agrippa, the sometime son-in-law of the Emperor Augustus.  In this absorbing study Nicolet sets forth the integral relations between territorial expansion and political expansion, as well as between propaganda cultivated in the national interest and propaganda designed to secure the status of the princeps as primus inter pares, first among equals.  Unique in presentation, drawing upon unexpected texts both ancient and modern, Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire offers startling new insights into the character of Rome and its princeps-cum-king, Augustus.

Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)

History

Nicolet, Claude

Americas

University of Michigan Press

Brilliant in conception and flowing in style, Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire documents Roman expansion in what came to be the beginnings of the early imperial period. In an inimitable way, the author of this groundbreaking work explores how Romans came to map the world they knew and conquered. Claude Nicolet studies both the agrimensores, who in the state’s interest took care to observe and record territories for Britain to the farther reaches of Asia Minor, and M. Vipsanius Agrippa, the sometime son-in-law of the Emperor Augustus. In this absorbing study Nicolet sets forth the integral relations between territorial expansion and political expansion, as well as between propaganda cultivated in the national interest and propaganda designed to secure the status of the princeps as primus inter pares, first among equals. Unique in presentation, drawing upon unexpected texts both ancient and modern, Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire offers startling new insights into the character of Rome and its princeps-cum-king, Augustus.

Ancient Civilizations

The world of the citizen in republican Rome

The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome

University of California Press

Text: English, French (translation)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Batsford Academic and Educational

Ce n'est pas tant sur la classe politique qu'a reposé la grandeur de Rome, cette oligarchie de sénateurs et de magistrats auxquels se sont surtout intéressés les historiens, mais sur l'adhésion morale de la masse civique, légionnaires et contribuables, émigrants, négociants et colons qui ont romanisé le monde. L'entreprise ici tentée par Claude Nicolet est toute neuve : par une relecture attentive de tous les textes historiques, littéraires, épigraphiques, juridiques, ainsi qu'une annalyse savante du décor monumental et du cadre topographique, essayer de faire revivre le contenu quotidien de la citoyenneté romaine aux deux derniers siècles de la République.\nFrom the Back Cover\nCe n'est pas tant sur la classe politique qu'a reposé la grandeur de Rome, cette oligarchie de sénateurs et de magistrats auxquels se sont surtout intéressés les historiens, mais sur l'adhésion morale de la masse civique, légionnaires et contribuables, émigrants, négociants et colons qui ont romanisé le monde. L'entreprise ici tentée par Claude Nicolet est toute neuve : par une relecture attentive de tous les textes historiques, littéraires, épigraphiques, juridiques, ainsi qu'une annalyse savante du décor monumental et du cadre topographique, essayer de faire revivre le contenu quotidien de la citoyenneté romaine aux deux derniers siècles de la République.

Le Métier de citoyen dans la Rome républicaine

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Gallimard]

La fabrique d'une nation la France entre Rome et les Germains

Europe

TEMPUS PERRIN

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