Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces

Presenting a new overview of the ruling classes of the Roman Empire, this volume explores aspects of the relations between the Roman official state structures and local provincial elites. The perspectives from which issues are approached by contributors are as multiple as the realities of the Roman world: from historical and epigraphic studies to research of philological and linguistic interpretations, and from architectural analyses to direct interpretations of the material culture. These complex and complementary pieces of research provide an in-depth image of the power mechanisms within the Roman state. The time span is from Romea€?s republican conquest of Greece to 5th century AD Gaul and the aim is to include all areas of the Roman Empire.

Rada Varga is Junior Researcher at Babe?-Bolyai University and holds a PhD in Ancient History (awarded in 2012, summa cum laude). Her scientific interests are focused on Roman social history, epigraphy and demography. She has a particular interest in digital epigraphy and ancient population reconstruction/prosopography.

Viorica Rusu-Bolinde? is Senior Researcher at the National History Museum of Transylvania. She holds a PhD in Ancient History (awarded in 2001) and her main scientific interests are centred on the economic life of the Lower Danube provinces. Her book Ceramica romana de la Napoca received the Romanian Academy’s Excellence Prize in 2007.