Rome, a City and Its Empire in Perspective / Rome, une cité impériale en jeu: The Impact of the Roman World Through Fergus Millar's Research / L’impact du monde romain selon Fergus Millar

Fergus Millar’s works have renewed our approach of the Roman world. He had studied the functioning of the Roman Empire in the perspective of the Emperor’s activities, from Augustus to Constantine; as well as the Republic during the last two centuries BC in order to revalue the people within the institutions; and finally the Near East from Augustus to Constantine, and then to the Muslim conquest. He uses to be engaged with the whole evidence (literary, epigraphic, papyrological, juridical and archaeological) that he examines closely with revived view-points. Distinguished and younger scholars have dealt, during a seminar, with the main aspects of Millar’s research, its reception and the reactions it has raised, and proposed surveys about current inquiries, as well as perspectives for future studies. Fergus Millar, un historien dans la cite / Stephane Benoist Democratie a Rome? Quelle democratie? En relisant Millar (et Holkeskamp) / Frederic Hurlet Contio, auctoritas and freedom of speech in republican Rome / Francisco Pina Polo Relire les institutions des seleucides de bikerman / John Ma Centre and periphery : administrative communication in Roman imperial times / Peter Eich The Roman city in the Roman period / Clifford Ando The Roman Near East from Constantine to Mahomet: report on a research project / Fergus Millar Sources conciliaires et histoire de l'empire Romain: une lecture de Fergus Millar / Philippe Blaudeau Pluralite des langues, pluralite des cultures dans le proche-orient Romano-Byzantin / Jean-Baptiste Yon. Distinguished and younger scholars have dealt with the main aspects of Millar’s research, and proposed surveys about current inquiries, as well as perspectives for future studies, mainly about the Roman republic, the functioning of the Empire and the evolution of the Near East.