Consuls of the Later Roman Empire

by Alan Cameron and Roger S. Bagnall

This book is not so much concerned with consuls as figures in the society of late antiquity as it is devoted to their utility for identifying years: consulates as a means of reckoning time. The compilation of lists of consuls was actively pursued in antiquity, and modern listmakers have not been lacking. But only two scholars have sought, since the development of Latin epigraphy in the later nineteenth century, to compile the evidence for each consulate-Vaglieri...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155540099X
• ISBN13: 9781555400996
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 770 Pages