The Roman Empire

Augustus to Hadrian

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This is a collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions and papyri in English translation. They are all primary sources for our knowledge of the history of Rome from the first emperor, Augustus, to Hadrian. The theme of the present collection is the political and military activity of the Roman emperors to the period of Hadrian, the men who carried out their policies, the institutions of their administrations, the wars they conducted, the reaction of their subjects, the imperial ruler cult, their letters and orders. A second part is concerned with the society of the ordinary citizen or provincial subject in his daily life. Brief commentary and notes accompany the translations, making this book a collection of historical material to supplement the major literary sources like Tacitus, Suetonius, Dio and others in the study of Roman imperial history. This book will be useful to students and teachers of Roman history and classical civilisation.

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Volume editor's introduction	p. xv
List of abbreviations	p. xvii
List of symbols	p. xxii
The Imperial Government in War and Peace	p. 1
Augustus	p. 1
Calendar entries for Augustus	p. 2
Legal decision by Augustus and Agrippa, and a governor's letter to Kyme	p. 4
Augustus refuses freedom to Samos	p. 7
Senatorial and imperial provinces	p. 7
Illyricum and Thrace under Augustus	p. 9
General repair of main highways in Italy	p. 10
Augustus and the imperial cult	p. 11
The Cantabrian campaign in Spain	p. 17
Military expeditions deep into Africa	p. 18
Peace on the eastern frontier	p. 19
The Secular Games of Augustus	p. 20
Greek translation of funeral oration given by Augustus for Agrippa	p. 24
Five edicts of Augustus and a decree of the senate	p. 25
Control over priestly credentials in Egypt	p. 30
Oath of loyalty sworn in Paphlagonia to Augustus and his descendants	p. 31
Rome and the Far East	p. 32
Letter of Augustus to his grandson	p. 33
Gaius Caesar in the Greek East	p. 33
Honors decreed in Pisae for the dead Gaius Caesar	p. 34
War against the Gaetulians in Africa	p. 36
Fabricius Tuscus and a levy of troops at Rome	p. 38
Equestrian officer takes the census	p. 38
Centurion killed in the disaster of Varus	p. 39
Rebellion in Athens against Rome	p. 39
Minutes of an audience in Rome given by Augustus with his Advisory Board to envoys from Alexandria	p. 40
The Res Gestae of Augustus	p. 41
Imperial edict concerning violation of sepulchres	p. 52
Tiberius	p. 53
Calendar entries for Tiberius	p. 53
Edict of the governor of Galatia on requisitioning of transport	p. 55
Charioteer at the Games in honor of Caesar's Victory	p. 56
Letter of Tiberius refusing divine honors	p. 57
Sacred law for a festival of the imperial cult	p. 57
Germanicus at the Olympic Games	p. 59
Germanicus in Egypt	p. 60
Roman upper classes forbidden to participate in public performances	p. 61
Honors for the dead Germanicus	p. 63
The new equestrian order	p. 72
The imperial cult in Galatia	p. 73
Pontius Pilatus, prefect of Judaea	p. 75
The fall of Sejanus, later recollection	p. 75
Gaius (Caligula)	p. 78
Oath of allegiance to Gaius	p. 78
Client states and kings	p. 79
Cult of Gaius and the administrative districts of Asia	p. 81
Claudius	p. 83
Letter of Claudius to the Alexandrians	p. 83
Trial of Isidorus and Lampon before Claudius	p. 87
Edict of the prefect of Egypt on illegal requisitions	p. 88
Slaves and freedmen in the household of Claudius	p. 89
Governor's decree on altering documents	p. 90
Officers and men in the conquest of Britain	p. 91
Favors granted the city of Volubilis by Claudius	p. 93
Vow for victory in Britain	p. 94
Edict of Claudius granting Roman citizenship	p. 94
Claudius repairs the road from the Po to the Danube	p. 96
Letter of Claudius about Dionysiac performers	p. 96
Speech of Claudius to the senate	p. 97
Cogidubnus, client-king in Roman Britain	p. 98
Sextus Afranius Burrus, praetorian prefect (AD 51-62)	p. 99
Discharge diploma for a sailor at Misenum	p. 99
Claudius and the aqueducts	p. 100
Ofonius Tigellinus, rags to riches	p. 101
Nero	p. 102
Draft of a proclamation of Nero as emperor	p. 102
Nero refuses divine honors	p. 103
Prefect of Egypt honored at Bousiris	p. 104
Governor of Moesia, and the barbarians	p. 104
Domitius Corbulo, commander on the eastern front	p. 106
Accommodations on the highways of Thrace	p. 106
Roman veterans meet with the prefect of Egypt	p. 107
Nero addresses the Practorian Guard	p. 108
Betrayal of the plot to assassinate Nero	p. 109
Religious acts celebrating the safety of Nero	p. 109
Nero liberates the province of Greece	p. 110
Nero's canal across the Corinthian Isthmus	p. 112
The Panachaian League and the freedom of Greece	p. 113
The so-called 'five good years' of Nero's reign	p. 113
Nero's agents confiscate statutes in Greece	p. 114
Tombstone of a member of Nero's German bodyguard	p. 114
Nero breaks up private estates in Africa	p. 115
Nero honored at Athens	p. 115
Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian	p. 116
The year of the four emperors	p. 117
Edict of Tiberius Iulius Alexander	p. 118
Acclamation of Vespasian in Alexandria	p. 123
Law on the imperial powers of Vespasian	p. 124
The Jewish War under Vespasian and Titus	p. 126
Edict of Vespasian on teachers and physicians	p. 127
The Roman presence in the Caucasus	p. 128
A milestone and the legions in Syria	p. 129
Letter of Vespasian to Sabora in Spain	p. 130
Rescript of Vespasian concerning a land dispute	p. 130
Career of the Roman conqueror of Masada	p. 131
Settlement of tribes around Cirta	p. 131
Vespasian and a dissident senator	p. 132
Restoration of public lands	p. 132
Titus and Domitian	p. 133
Titus writes to the city of Munigua in Spain	p. 134
Earthquake damage repaired at Naples	p. 135
Pay record of a Roman legionary	p. 135
Instructions from Domitian to a procurator	p. 136
Letter of Domitian about a land controversy	p. 137
The municipal charter of Salpensa	p. 138
Domitian appoints a new praetorian prefect	p. 140
Area destroyed by fire under Nero	p. 140
Entrapment of citizens	p. 142
Boundary markers of a Roman colony on Crete	p. 142
Domitian's war against the Dacians	p. 143
Edict of Domitian on the immunity of veterans	p. 145
'Nero is still alive.'	p. 147
Edict of the prefect of Egypt on public records	p. 147
Koptos and Red Sea commerce	p. 148
A Roman governor and a famine in Antioch	p. 149
Domitian on teachers and physicians	p. 150
Career of an equestrian under the Flavian emperors	p. 151
Nerva and Trajan	p. 152
Nerva and a new beginning	p. 153
Discharge diploma for auxiliary soldier	p. 154
Preparations at the Iron Gate for the Dacian War	p. 155
Roman surveyor of the Dacian limes	p. 156
Prefect of Egypt issues an edict on the census	p. 157
Cornelius Palma builds an aqueduct	p. 158
Roman equestrian honored by his native city	p. 158
Roman soldier captures the king of the Dacians	p. 159
Rewards and consequences of the conquest of Dacia	p. 160
Survey of land for a colony in Pannonia	p. 161
Trajan celebrates his Dacian victory	p. 161
Trajan's trophy at Adamklissi	p. 163
Roman colony at Sarmizegetusa in Dacia	p. 164
Trajan and road repair in Italy	p. 164
The Trajanic highway from Syria to the Red Sea	p. 164
Career of Hadrian before he became emperor	p. 165
The curator rei publicae in Italy	p. 166
Trajan dedicates Dacian spoils	p. 168
Roman troops on the march to Parthia	p. 168
The Jewish revolt under Trajan	p. 169
The earthquake at Antioch	p. 173
An Iberian prince with Trajan in the Parthian War	p. 173
Trajan crosses the Tigris River	p. 174
Trajan's letter to the senate	p. 174
Trajan puts Parthemaspates on the throne of Parthia	p. 175
Coins celebrating victory in Parthia	p. 176
Trajan and his eastern empire	p. 177
Roman army withdraws from Dura-Europus	p. 178
Career of Gaius Iulius Quadratus Bassus	p. 178
Hadrian	p. 180
Creation of the Athenaeum in Rome by Hadrian	p. 181
Chief secretary in Rome under Hadrian	p. 181
Hadrian's frontier policy in Britain	p. 182
Hadrian cancels debts owed to the Treasury	p. 182
Letter of Hadrian on children of soldiers	p. 183
Plotina and Hadrian concerning the school at Athens	p. 184
Hadrian reviews troops on the Danube	p. 185
Hadrian's rescript about Christians	p. 185
Hadrian travels to Asia Minor and Greece	p. 186
Hadrian addresses his army in Africa	p. 187
Hadrian and Antinous	p. 189
Hadrian visits Palmyra in the Syrian desert	p. 190
The Jewish revolt under Hadrian	p. 191
Edict of prefect of Egypt about circuit court	p. 192
Colonists in the new city of Antinoopolis	p. 193
Roman power in the Black Sea under Hadrian	p. 193
Roman order of battle against the Alani	p. 194
Hadrian grants a moratorium on taxes in Egypt	p. 199
New road from Berenike to Antinoopolis	p. 200
The tax law of Palmyra	p. 200
The horoscope of Pedanius Fuscus	p. 202
Society in the Roman World	p. 205
Rescript of Hadrian on social status in legal penalties	p. 205
A Roman jurist on medicines and abortifacients	p. 206
Greek prejudice against the Roman West	p. 206
Roman citizenship, open to all in the empire	p. 207
The rise of provincials in service to Rome	p. 207
Inns and accommodations	p. 210
Entertainers and actors of the imperial theater	p. 211
Appuleius Diocles, most eminent of all charioteers	p. 213
The Roman circus	p. 216
Theater and chariot races at Alexandria	p. 218
The gladiatorial games	p. 219
Physicians in the Roman world	p. 223
Women at work	p. 225
Men at work	p. 227
A canal for fullers in Syrian Antioch	p. 231
Learning a trade by apprenticeship	p. 232
Wholesale dealer in food at Puteoli	p. 232
Societies of the working classes	p. 233
Slaves in the Roman world	p. 235
Purchase of a female slave	p. 239
Gift of gardens to freedmen and freedwomen	p. 239
An imperial freedman in charge of elephants in Italy	p. 240
Public activities of a prominent patron at Ostia	p. 240
Construction of a synagogue in Jerusalem	p. 241
A son delivers the funeral oration for his mother	p. 241
Marriage contract	p. 243
Apartment building for rent	p. 243
Auxiliary soldier declares birth of a daughter	p. 244
Exposure of children in the Graeco-Roman world	p. 244
Deed of divorce	p. 246
Recall of a will	p. 246
Official notification of death in the family	p. 247
Letter of recommendation to a tribune of soldiers	p. 247
Roman senator asked to be town's patron	p. 248
Honorarium for a speaker	p. 249
Receipts of various kinds	p. 249
Tenant farmers on an imperial estate	p. 250
Child Assistance Program in Italy	p. 251
Market days and the seven-day week	p. 252
Italian Farmer's Almanac	p. 253
The philanthropy of Pliny the Younger	p. 256
Glossary	p. 258
Appendixes	p. 268
Roman names	p. 268
Roman imperial chronology	p. 270
Indexes	p. 272
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