Political Authority and Local Agency: Cilicia Pedias and Syria between the Seleucid Empire and the Roman Republic.
This paper aims to show how local civic communities, nominally subject to the Seleucid dynasts, integrated Roman magistrates into an existing framework of authority during the late second and early first centuries BCE. I argue that as Roman magistrates played an increasingly significant role in the...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 483 - 514 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2022
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