Andrew Burnett

The Roman Provinces, 300 BCE-300 CE

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Makes a complex subject easy for instructors and students to understand and shows how the provincial coinage can illustrate many aspects of Roman Republican and Imperial history. Includes over two hundred illustrations of coins with detailed captions, so providing a convenient sourcebook of the most important items.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781009420136
• ISBN-10: 1009420135
• Artikelnr.: 69928435

Autorenporträt

ANDREW BURNETT was Deputy Director of the British Museum from 2002 to 2013, having begun his career at the Museum in 1974 in the Coins and Medals department as Research Assistant. He went on to become Deputy Keeper in 1990 and Keeper in 1992. He is a past President of the Royal Numismatic Society, the Roman Society, and of the International Numismatic Commission, and is currently an Honorary Research Associate at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. His main research interests are in the coinage of Roman Britain; the early Roman coinage of the third century BC; Roman provincial coinage; and the history of numismatics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and has been awarded many prizes and honours for his publications.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Precious metal coinages at Rome and in the provinces
2. The beginnings of an empire in Italy and the western Mediterranean (300-200 BCE)
3. The growth of an empire during the late Republic (200-31 BCE)
4. Whose coins? A model for city coinage in imperial times
5. The revolution of Augustus - and becoming more Roman in the first century CE
6. Reinforcing Greek identity in the Golden Age of the second century CE
7. 'From a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust' in the third century CE.