Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE

Myles Lavan is Reader in Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews, author of Slaves to Rome and co-editor, with Richard E. Payne and John Weisweiler, of Cosmopolitanism and Empire: Universal Rulers, Local Elites and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Clifford Ando is David B. and Clara E. Stern Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His previous publications include Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284; Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition; and The Matter of the Gods.

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1. Introduction

PART I. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CITIZEN PRIVILEGE
2. Citizenship and its alternatives: a view from the East
3. Fiscal semantics in the long second century: citizenship, taxation, and the constitutio Antoniniana

PART II. ROMAN CITIZENSHIP AND FAMILY STRATEGIES
4. Roman citizenship, marriage with non-citizens and family networks
5. Manumission, citizenship, and inheritance: epigraphic evidence from the Danube

PART III. PRACTICES OF CITIZENSHIP
6. The onomastics of Roman citizenship in the Greek East: From 'Second Sophistic' to local epigraphic loyalty
7. Documenting Roman Citizenship

PART IV. LOCAL CONTEXTS
8. Citizenships and jurisdictions: the Greek city perspective
9. Experiencing Roman citizenship in the Greek East during the second century ce: local contexts for a global phenomenon

PART V. EPILOGUE
10. Romans, aliens and others in dynamic interaction

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