Local Governments and Collegia: A New Appraisal of the Evidence

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Illustrations ix
5. Preface xi
6. William V. Harris: The first forty years of scholarship (1965-2005) xiii
7. Religion in context
8. A God of Reciprocity: Torah and Social Relations in an Ancient Mediterranean Society 3
9. Distinguishing Jewishness in Antiquity 37
10. Jesus, an Adulteress, and the Development of Christian Scripture 59
11. Constantius II and the First Removal of the Altar of Victory 85
12. ‘Du lard ou du cochon’? The Τestamentum Ρorcelli as a Jewish Anti-Christian Pamphlet 107
13. Imperialism and its soldiers
14. Aristocratic Competition, Horses, and the Spolia Opima Once Again 145
15. An Architecture of Human Heads: Gallic Responses to Roman Power 161
16. Soldiers’ Slaves, ‘Dirty Work’, and the Social Status of Roman Soldiers 203
17. Law and economy in ancient society
18. Veterans, Agriculture, and Monetization in the Late Roman Republic 229
19. Country Villas in Roman Central Italy: Reassessing the Evidence 241
20. The Delicts of the Countryside in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe 263
21. Local Governments and Collegia: A New Appraisal of the Evidence 285
22. Historiography
23. Imagining Olympia: Hippias of Elis and the First Olympic Victor List 319
24. A Sense of Change and the Historiography of the Turn from Republic to Empire 357
25. Afterword 377
26. Contributors 379