B C Mcging
Biographic Data
| ID | 1183111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B C Mcging |
| GIVEN NAMES | B C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcging |
| SIGNATURE | MCGING B C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Limits of Ancient Biography
Brian McGing (Trinity College, Dublin and Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham), Introduction Andrew D. H. Mayes (Trinity College, Dublin), Biography in the Ancient World: the Story of the Rise of David Elizabeth Irwin (Columbia University), The Biographies of Poets: the Case of Solon Richard A. Burridge (King's College, London), Reading the Gospels as Biography: Mark Edwards (Christ Church, Oxford), Gospel and Genre: Some Reservations Sean F…
Near Eastern Royalty and Rome 100-30 B. C
During the first century BC, the Near and Middle Easy saw a great transition from the Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires, by way of the brief Pontic and Armenian Empires, to the triumphant Parthian and Roman Empires. Richard D. Sullivan offers a guide to the central role of royalty during this period. He provides, through narrative and citations, a context for the frequent references to Eastern kings and queens by Caesar, Cicero, Strabo, Josephus, Ta…
Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity
Preliminary Material
The Land and People of Pontus
Eupator on the Coast of the Black Sea
The First war with Rome
The Second and Third Wars Against Rome
Index
The Sources
Eupator in Asia Before the First war with Rome
Pontus to the Time of Mithridates V Euergetes
Conclusion
Chronology and the Royal Cappadocian Coins
The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus
This book is about the clash of the Hellenistic world with the Romans, about a late Hellenistic king, a dominant figure of the first century B.C., who refused to accept his inclusion in the Roman sphere of control, and attempted to assert his political independence. A subsidiary theme is the espousal of hellenism by a non-Greek dynasty. The work examines first the early history of Pontus, and then analyses carefully the events of Mithridates Eupa…
The Date of the Outbreak of the Third Mithridatic War
IN SPITE OF MUCH DISCUSSION ON THE SUBJECT, scholars have failed to come to any general agreement on whether the Third Mithridatic War started in the spring of 74 or of 73 B.C.' Some new observations on the matter can be made, leading to the negative conclusion that the spring of 74 is impossible. In question here is not only chronological accuracy, but also the course of events immediately before and during Mithridates Eupator's last war against…
The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus
This book is about the clash of the Hellenistic world with the Romans, about a late Hellenistic king, a dominant figure of the first century B.C., who refused to accept his inclusion in the Roman sphere of control, and attempted to assert his political independence. A subsidiary theme is the espousal of hellenism by a non-Greek dynasty. The work examines first the early history of Pontus, and then analyses carefully the events of Mithridates Eupa…
The Date of the Outbreak of the Third Mithridatic War
IN SPITE OF MUCH DISCUSSION ON THE SUBJECT, scholars have failed to come to any general agreement on whether the Third Mithridatic War started in the spring of 74 or of 73 B.C.' Some new observations on the matter can be made, leading to the negative conclusion that the spring of 74 is impossible. In question here is not only chronological accuracy, but also the course of events immediately before and during Mithridates Eupator's last war against…
The Date of the Outbreak of the Third Mithridatic War
IN SPITE OF MUCH DISCUSSION ON THE SUBJECT, scholars have failed to come to any general agreement on whether the Third Mithridatic War started in the spring of 74 or of 73 B.C.' Some new observations on the matter can be made, leading to the negative conclusion that the spring of 74 is impossible. In question here is not only chronological accuracy, but also the course of events immediately before and during Mithridates Eupator's last war against…
Preliminary Material
The Land and People of Pontus
Eupator on the Coast of the Black Sea
The First war with Rome
The Second and Third Wars Against Rome
Index
The Sources
Eupator in Asia Before the First war with Rome
Pontus to the Time of Mithridates V Euergetes
Conclusion
Chronology and the Royal Cappadocian Coins
The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus
This book is about the clash of the Hellenistic world with the Romans, about a late Hellenistic king, a dominant figure of the first century B.C., who refused to accept his inclusion in the Roman sphere of control, and attempted to assert his political independence. A subsidiary theme is the espousal of hellenism by a non-Greek dynasty. The work examines first the early history of Pontus, and then analyses carefully the events of Mithridates Eupa…
Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity
Near Eastern Royalty and Rome 100-30 B. C
During the first century BC, the Near and Middle Easy saw a great transition from the Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires, by way of the brief Pontic and Armenian Empires, to the triumphant Parthian and Roman Empires. Richard D. Sullivan offers a guide to the central role of royalty during this period. He provides, through narrative and citations, a context for the frequent references to Eastern kings and queens by Caesar, Cicero, Strabo, Josephus, Ta…
The Limits of Ancient Biography
Brian McGing (Trinity College, Dublin and Judith Mossman (University of Nottingham), Introduction Andrew D. H. Mayes (Trinity College, Dublin), Biography in the Ancient World: the Story of the Rise of David Elizabeth Irwin (Columbia University), The Biographies of Poets: the Case of Solon Richard A. Burridge (King's College, London), Reading the Gospels as Biography: Mark Edwards (Christ Church, Oxford), Gospel and Genre: Some Reservations Sean F…
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