Ruthenia classica aetatis novae : a collection of works by Russian scholars in ancient Greek and Roman history

The book presents research mostly done by younger Russian scholars of ancient history to a readership that does not speak and read the Russian language. The articles cover a wide range of time and topics: Greek history from the archaic far into the Hellenistic period and Roman history from the republic to the empire - politics, finance, ideology, constitution, society with prosopography, and population. By sketching the peculiarities of research in antiquity in pre-revolutionary and socialist Russia and the conditions under which post-socialist classicists and historians work, an introductory article helps readers to understand the achievement of today's Russian studies in antiquity. Altogether the volume demonstrates that the actual Russian scholarship in ancient history has joined the international research and in which way this has been achieved. - Publisher CONTENTS PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS ILLUSTRATIONS CLASSICAL STUDIES IN RUSSIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: A COLLECTIVE PORTRAIT IN CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT ANCIENT GREEK LEGISLATION ON SICILY: . THE LAWS OF CHARONDAS HERODOTUS AND THE PHILAIDS HERODOTUS AND GREEK MEDISM ON THE FINANCIAL RELATIONS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE GREEK CITIES IN ASIA MINOR: THE CASE OF SYNTAXIS A FRAGMENT OF AN EARLY HELLENISTIC EGYPTIAN CLEPSYDRA FROM THE STATE HERMITAGE, ST. PETERSBURG (INV. NO. ДВ 2507А): A NATIVE VIEW OF EARLY MACEDONIAN RULE IN EGYPT THE ELEPHANT CHARIOTS AT DAPHNE: AN ASPECT OF THE IDEOLOGICAL POLICY OF ANTIOCHUS IV THE MACEDONIAN ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY OF HARPALOI–POLEMAIOI FROM BEROEA SOME CRITICAL NOTES ON PETER BRUNT’S .RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CONDUCT OF THE ROMAN CENSUS SULLA IN THE EAST: VENUS CONTRA DIONYSUM MITHRIDATES AND SERTORIUS A HISTORICAL AND EPIGRAPHIC COMMENTARY ON HYPSICRATEIA’S EPITAPH THE ROMAN CITIZENRY IN ARMS: THE REPUBLICAN BACKGROUND AND TRADITIONS OF THE IMPERIAL ARMY THE CONCEPTS OF ‘DEMOCRACY’ AND ‘TYRANNY’ IN THE SPEECH OF AGRIPPA IN CASSIUS DIO 52. 1–13: CONVENTIONAL RHETORIC OR POLITICAL THEORY? CONTRIBUTORS