Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned. He also has shown how and why Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam evolved from within the wider cultural context of the Greco-Roman world.Opening this collection of sixteen essays is a new contribution by Millar in which he defends the continuing significance of the study of Classics and argues for expanding the definition of what constitutes that field. In this volume he also questions the dominant scholarly interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic, arguing that the Roman people, not the Senate, were the sovereign power in Republican Rome. In so doing he sheds new light on the establishment of a new regime by the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus.

弗格斯-米勒是当代最有影响力的古代世界历史学家之一。他的论文和书籍，包括《罗马世界的皇帝》和《罗马近东》，从根本上丰富了我们对希腊-罗马世界的理解。在他的著作中，米勒使罗马帝国的居民成为我们对该帝国如何运作的概念的核心。他还展示了拉比犹太教、基督教和伊斯兰教是如何以及为何在希腊-罗马世界这一更广泛的文化背景下发展起来的。在这本由16篇论文组成的文集的开头，米勒发表了一篇新的文章，他在其中为古典文学研究的持续意义辩护，并主张扩大对该领域的定义。在这一卷中，他还质疑学术界对罗马共和国政治的主流解释，认为罗马人民，而不是元老院，才是共和时期罗马的主权国家。这样一来，他对罗马第一任皇帝凯撒-奥古斯都建立的新政权提出了新的看法。