During the last stages of the Marcommani Wars in the late second century A.D., Roman literary sources recorded that the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was planning to annex the Germanic territory of the Marcomannic and Quadic tribes. This work will propose that Marcus Aurelius was going to create a province called Marcomannia. The thesis will be supported by archaeological data originating from excavations in the Roman installation at Mušov, Moravia, Czech Republic. The investigation will examine the history of the non-Roman region beyond the northern Danubian frontier, the character of Roman occupation and creation of other Roman provinces on the Danube, and consult primary sources and modern research on the topic of Roman expansion and empire building during the principate. / Graduate / 0579 / 0324 / 0294

The first part of this thesis is concerned with the assimilation of Pisidia into the Roman Empire, reviewed against a background of general expansion and development. Hellenistic and Roman influences contributed to the transformation of a district with a basically tribally-structured society, primitive communications and a self-sufficient agrarian economy, into a Roman province which had adopted Roman culture and urbanisation, whose road network was part of an Empire-wide system and whose economy was integrated with that of the Empire as a whole. Still it appears that, for fundamentally geographical reasons, Pisidia retained some of her independent characteristics and the process of assimilation of the highlands into the Empire was, on the whole, more retarded than that of the lowland and coastal regions. The second part of the thesis is concerned with aspects of later Antiquity, beginning with the archaeological evidence for Christianity in Pisidia. This is of major importance because Christianity was one of the critical and most influential aspects of change in the Roman world and because the churches are very often the only evidence which bears witness to the occupation of a site after the 4th century. There is thought to have been an Empire-wide decline during late Antiquity, resulting in urban decay, economic dislocation, depopulation and discontinuity of city life and traditions. The main cause seems to have been political instability, in particular almost continual warfare from the mid 3rd century. These and other possible factors of decline are assessed against a background of general transformation and development, the symptoms reinterpreted, whenever justifiable, as reflections of changing traditions and changing needs. The closing chapter considers more specifically the questions of continuity, decline and change in Pisidia, exploring the possibility that Pisidia's element of independence and her geographical isolation protected the district to a certain extent from adversities which were not the result of natural causes.

Provincial and Municipal Administration in the Roman Province of Dalmatia. Abstract The subject of the thesis is the provincial administration and the local and municipal authorities in the Roman Province of Dalmatia from a legal historical point of view. It focuses on the following topics: - The Roman control of the territory, the formation of the Dalmatia Province, its characteristics, its further development, and the population of the province. - Governors of the province - findings about the governors of the Dalmatia Province according to the sources discovered to date. - Other municipal authorities representing central power - listed according to existing sources, their status and competence. - Judiciary of the province - exercise of judicial power, jurisdiction of municipalities under individual courts, examples of court decisions from available sources. - The army of the province - legions deployed around the province territory, provincia inermis, auxiliary corps. - Local self-government, municipal administration of individual towns in the region in the d period, their characteristics, especially the degree of their autonomy, the organisation of public authority and their relations with Rome: a) coloniae - role, origin, internal organisation b) municipia - role, origin, internal organisation c)...

The focus of this thesis is on the social and economic conditions prevailing in the countryside of Histria and the Roman province of Dalmatia from the 1st century BC till the 5th century AD. The thesis' chapters are dealing with specific issues of the provincial rural areas (villae rusticae, vici), legal matters (such as civic status of inhabitants or land ownership) and the general economic situation, particularly the role of agriculture within the system of production, distribution and consumption. The analysis of preserved epigraphic monuments is a crucial part of the chapter on agriculture, whose main focus is on the agricultural production - especially cultivation of olive trees and vines. The production of olive oil and wine was shown to having been far more extensive than previously thought. Other forms of production were also pointed out: figlinae (ceramics workshops), fullonicae (textile workshops) as well as salt production. Distribution and consumption were closely connected to agricultural production, and traces of trade may be followed both on land and at sea. Key words countryside, villae rusticae, Roman Province of Dalmatia, Histria, agriculture, wine, olive oil

(in English): Curse tablets are interesting phenomenon in the Ancient world. The curses are usully written on the lead tablet. Totally there are about 1500 curses found, from which one third is written in latin and 309 from that amount were founf in Roman Britain. I focus on this countable group in my Diploma Thesis. Firstly I prefer the archaeological side of the artefact. The context is usually the only way to date and understand the curse tablet itself. I offer all the sites where information about them is given. We can talk also about the so called prayers for justice which are quite numerous in Britannia. They are of the same principle as curses, but they are not made for satisfied selfish ambitions. They ask gods for help. Most often they are made because of the robbery which has not been punished in the world of mortals, because the thief is not known or there are too many suspects.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request

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