Illyricum in Roman Politics, 229 BC-AD 68

by Danijel Dzino

Overview

Illyricum, in the western Balkan peninsula, was a strategically important area of the Roman Empire where the process of Roman imperialism began early and lasted for several centuries. Dzino here examines Roman political conduct in Illyricum; the development of Illyricum in Roman political discourse; and the beginning of the process that would integrate Illyricum into the Roman Empire and wider networks of the Mediterranean world. In addition, he also explores the different narrative histories, from the romanocentric narrative of power and Roman military conquest, which dominate the available sources, to other, earlier scholarly interpretations of events.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521194198
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/21/2010
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Danijel Dzino is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

Table of Contents

List of figures viii

List of maps ix

List of tables x

Acknowledgments xi

Timeline xiii

1 Introduction, approaches, review of sources and secondary literature 1

2 Illyricum in Roman foreign affairs: historical outline, theoretical approaches and geography 18

3 Roman trans-Adriatic engagement (229-168 BC) 44

4 Rome across the Adriatic in the late Republic (167-59 BC) 61

5 The construction of Illyricum: Caesar in Illyricum and the Civil Wars (59-44 BC) 80

6 Octavian in Illyricum 99

7 From senatorial to imperial Illyricum: Bellum Pannonicum 117

8 The failure of Greater Illyricum: the Bellum Batonianum 137

9 Iulio-Claudians in Illyricum: the tale of two provinces 156

Conclusion: the construction of Illyricum in Roman political discourse 177

Bibliography 185

Index 219