296 Pages
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Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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The impact of Roman civilisation on the Empire’s clients in the West forms the subject of the first parts of this volume. Even the most successful Germanic kingdoms of the 5th-6th centuries, the author argues, such as that of the Vandals in North Africa, could not escape the grasp of the Roman Empire: their politics and culture remained conditioned by imperial models and by the continuing... Read more
Toward an understanding of Merobaudes' Panegyric I; Geiseric and Attila; The Family and Early Career of Anicius Olybrius; Count Gainas and Count Sebastian; Carthage in the age of Augustine; Carthage and the Vandals; Emperor worship in Vandal Africa; Le culte des empereurs dans l'Afrique vandale; Felix Karthago; The symbiosis of Romans and Vandals in Africa; L'annee de Carthage et les debuts du monnayage vandale; The Pseudo-Boniface and the Historia Augusta; Olympiodorus of Thebes and the Historia Augusta; The new assessment of the Carmen contra paganos; Commodus the poet; The Historia Augusta and the Latin Anthology; Index.
Biography
Frank M. Clover, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
'...a valuable collection of studies, of importance not only to historians of the Vandals, but also to those interested in the prosopography and literary culture of the later Roman empire more generally.' The Classical Review, Vol. XLVI, no. 2
