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The essays collected in this volume have their origin in a conference on Rome and the Mediterranean world held in London and Oxford under the auspices of the British Academy on 7 and 8 July 2000. The conference was timed to coincide with the sixty-fifth birthday of Fergus Millar, Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford since 1984, and to celebrate his achievement over four decades of teaching and research in the field of Roman history.
The subjects and the approaches of the essays are diverse and varied, ranging over most of the period during which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world and, in one case, predating it. Between them, they illustrate and emphasise three of the cardinal features which are observable time and time again in the whole corpus of Millar’s historical work: the necessity of understanding the evidence both in its historical and in its historiographical context; the need for the historian to be led by the evidence and to use it empirically to reconstruct processes, institutions and interactions, recognising and stating its limits without being shackled by it; the crucial importance of having a clear point of view in formulating questions and in approaching subject and evidence. It will be evident that the authors all have a considerable intellectual debt to Millar, without being either merely derivative or unreflectively unchallenging.
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