Urban Life and Local Politics in Roman Bithynia

Bekker-Nielsen, Tønnes

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“…According to Strabo 12.4.7, Nicaea was the Metropolis of Bithynia when he wrote his Geography in the first decades of the first century; a status the city had lost to Nicomedia by the time Dio of Prusa wrote his speeches on homonoia, sometime around the beginning of the second century (Dio of Prusa 38.39). 19 This opens up the possibility that the first provincial cult to Augustus in Bithynia was initially planned and perhaps even commenced in Nicaea and then, at a later time, moved to Nicomedia when Nicaea was no longer the Metropolis of Bithynia. In any case, there is nothing that suggests that the reference to neôkoros refers to a temple to Iulius-Roma, which clearly, if it did exist, would not count among the koinon-supervised temples.…”

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Cassius Dio and the Cult of Ivlivs and Roma at Ephesus and Nicaea (51.20.6-8)

Madsen

2016

The Class. Q.

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This paper considers Cassius Dio's account of the early worship of Augustus. Its main focus is the number of cults consecrated to the worship of Rome's new undisputed leader and his father, the now deceased and deified Divus Iulius, after the triumvir, on his way back from Alexandria in 29 b.c.e., wintered in Asia Minor. In his account of how the first official worship of Augustus was organized, Dio describes how Augustus let two separate cults inaugurate: a joint cult to the worship of Divus Iulius and the goddess Thea Roma—a Greek deity, which since the second century served as a personification of Roman rule or Roman power—and a personal cult to the worship of the victorious triumvir (51.20.6-8).

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Cassius Dio and the Cult of Ivlivs and Roma at Ephesus and Nicaea (51.20.6-8)

Madsen

2016

The Class. Q.

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“…Nicomedia;Wilson 1960, 107. 27 Bosch 1935Wilson 1960, 109-110;Levick 1979, 130;Boyana 2006, 172;Bekker-Nielsen 2008, 32-33. 28 Wilson 1960Boyana 2006, 175.…”

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Considerations for the Administration of the Province Pontus et Bithynia during the Imperial Period

Baz¹

2013

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Abstract:Although the province of Pontus-Bithynia formed the northeast boundary of the Roman state, it was governed as a senatorial province for a long time. During the historical process until Trajan's reign the Roman governors appointed to the province of PontusBithynia were proconsules at the level of praetor. But after 75 A.D., from the last years of the emperor Vespasian's reign possibly until the Trajan period we see that the proconsules to be sent to the province were more experienced. In 110 A.D. emperor Trajan, by the decree of senatus appointed Pliny the younger governor with the title legatus Augusti pro praetore as if this were an imperial province, instead of a governor with the title procunsul. We mustn't infer from Pliny's unusual assignment that Pontus et Bithynia, a senatorial province, was turned into an imperial one. In this context, this study discuss the following questions: For which reasons was Pliny appointed to the province? What were the main problems of the province during the governorship of Pliny and what were the aims of emperor Trajan? From 159 A.D. onward at the latest the governors from the status ex-consul and with the title legatus Augusti pro praetore were appointed to the administration of the province. After the status of imperial province was given, the governors who had previously performed the same job in various provinces and naturally had a longer career were appointed to the province. This fact clearly illustrate the strategical importance of the province. As a result we deal with the governors' fields of responsibility in the province and their relations with the inhabitants of the province.Özet: Roma devletinin kuzeydoğu sınırını oluşturma-sına karşın, Pontus-Bithynia eyaleti Senatus eyaleti olarak uzunca bir dönem yönetilmiştir. İmparator Traianus dönemine değin geçen süreç içerisinde eyalete atanan valiler, praetor seviyesindeki proconsul'lardandır. Ancak M.S. 75'ten sonra yani imparator Vespasianus yönetiminin son yıllarından itibaren olası-lıkla imparator Traianus'un dönemine değin eyalete gönderilecek proconsul'lerin daha tecrübeli oldukları görülmektedir. İmparator Traianus, M.S. 110 senesinde bu eyalete proconsul unvanlı bir vali yerine, sanki burası imparator eyaletiymiş gibi legatus Augusti pro praetore unvanıyla Genç Plinius'u Senatus kararıyla vali olarak atamıştır. Plinius'un özel bir biçimde atanması, senatus eyaleti olan Pontus et Bithynia'nın imparator eyaleti yapıldığı anlamına gelmemelidir. Bu bağlamda Plinius, hangi sebeplerden ötürü eyalete atanmıştır? Bu dönemde eyaletin başlıca problemleri ve imparatorun beklentileri nelerdir? soruları ele alınmıştır. En geç M.S. 159'dan itibaren eyaletin yö-netimine ex-consul statüsünden legatus Augusti pro praetore unvanlı valiler atanmışlardır. İmparatorluk eyaleti olmasından sonra eyalete atanan valilerin daha önceden birkaç eyalette valilik görevini yaptıktan sonra nispeten daha uzun bir kariyer sahibi oldukları anlaşılmaktadır. Bu durum şüphesiz eyaletin artan stratejik önemini göstermektedir. Son olarak ça...

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The Empire in the Age of Nero

Lavan

2013

A Companion to the Neronian Age

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Urban Life and Local Politics in Roman Bithynia

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Cassius Dio and the Cult of Ivlivs and Roma at Ephesus and Nicaea (51.20.6-8)

Cassius Dio and the Cult of Ivlivs and Roma at Ephesus and Nicaea (51.20.6-8)

Considerations for the Administration of the Province Pontus et Bithynia during the Imperial Period

The Empire in the Age of Nero

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