The rise and fall of the Roman world

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The Rise and Fall of the Roman World (abbreviated ANRW ) is an extensive scientific book series that deals with the Roman Empire .

History of the work

The series was originally founded in 1972 as a commemorative publication for the 75th birthday of ancient historian Joseph Vogt . However, in the course of time the work grew into a compilation of encyclopedic proportions. The series was initially published by Hildegard Temporini alone (Part I & II), later by her together with Wolfgang Haase (Part II), who has been responsible for the series since Temporini's death. It appears in the Berlin publisher Walter de Gruyter , but has not been continued for some time - the last volume appeared in 1998 - because the publisher does not want to continue it in its previous form at the moment. According to the publisher's information from 2018, however, volumes 26.4 and 37.4 are in preparation.

Work on the manual began in 1968 and continued until 1999. During this period, 89 volumes were published.

content

The ANRW is an international joint venture of the ancient and historical sciences. The task is to deal with all important aspects of the ancient Roman world as well as its persistence and afterlife in the Middle Ages and modern times according to the current state of research in individual contributions. The history of the reception and effect of Roman antiquity up to the present day is an important part of the work. However, almost all areas of Roman antiquity and many related sciences are dealt with: political history , cultural history , law , religions , language and literature , philosophy , sciences , technology and art .

construction

The book series is designed as a multi-part work. The series I (1972/73) deals in four volumes with the Roman Republic , series II (published since 1974) with the Roman Empire , series III with late antiquity (in planning) and series IV should finally conclude the work with register volumes . Each part consists of several volumes, which in turn often consist of several sub-volumes.

Each row consists of six sub-areas:

  1. Political history
  2. Law
  3. religion
  4. Language and literature
  5. Philosophy and science
  6. Arts.

The individual (partial) volumes have the character of a manual . The articles are now written by over 1000 specialists (mainly from the fields of Ancient , Medieval and Modern History ; Byzantine Studies , Slavic Studies ; Classical , Middle Latin , Romance and Oriental Philology ; Classical , Oriental and Christian Archeology and Art History ; Law ; Religious Studies and Theology , especially Church history and patristicism ). Languages ​​are German , English , French and Italian .

Single volumes

  • Part I: From the beginnings of Rome to the end of the republic, editor Hildegard Temporini:
    • Volume 1: Political History, 1972
    • Volume 2: Law / Religion / Language and Literature (until the end of the 2nd century BC), 1972
    • Volume 3: Language and Literature (1st Century BC), 1973
    • Volume 4: Philosophy and Sciences; Arts, 1973
  • Part II: Principal. Editor Hildegard Temporini, from volume 16 Wolfgang Haase:
    • Volume 1: Political History (General), 1974
    • Volume 2: Political History (Imperial History), 1975
    • Volume 3: Political History (Provinces and Marginal Peoples: General; Britain, Hispania, Gaul), 1975
    • Volume 4: Political history (provinces and marginal peoples: Gaul [cont.], Germania), 1975
    • Volume 5, in 2 sub-volumes: Political History (Provinces and marginal peoples: Germania [cont.], Alpenprokuraturen, Raetien), 1976
    • Volume 6: Political History (Provinces and Marginal Peoples: Latin Danube-Balkans), 1977
    • Volume 7, in 2 volumes: Political history (provinces and marginal peoples: Greek Balkans; Asia Minor), 1980
    • Volume 8: Political History (Provinces and Fringe Peoples: Syria, Palestine, Arabia), 1978
    • Volume 9 in 2 sub-volumes: Political History (Provinces and Marginal Peoples), Volume 1 (Mesopotamia, Armenia, Iran, South Arabia, Rome and the Far East), 1976, Volume 2 (Rome and the Far East), 1976
    • Volume 10 in 2 sub-volumes: Political History (Provinces and marginal peoples: Africa and Egypt), Volume 1 1988, Volume 2 1982
    • Volume 11 in 3 sub-volumes: Political History (marginal peoples: Sicily and Sardinia; Italy and Rome; General), 1988, Volumes 2, 3 (Addenda) in preparation
    • Volume 12 in 6 sub-volumes: Künste, Volume 1 1982, Volume 2 1981, Volume 3 1985, Volume 4 to 6 (Addenda) in preparation
    • Volume 13: Law (Norms, Dissemination, Matters), 1980
    • Volume 14: Law (Matters, cont.), 1982
    • Volume 15: Law (Methods, Schools, Individual Jurists), 1976
    • Volume 16 in 3 sub-volumes: Religion (Paganism: Roman Religion, General), Volume 1 and 2 1978, Volume 3 1986
    • Volume 17 in 4 sub-volumes: Religion (Paganism: Roman cults of gods, Oriental cults in the Roman world), Volume 1 and 2 1981, Volume 3 and 4 1984
    • Volume 18 in 6 sub-volumes: Religion (Paganism: The religious conditions in the provinces), Volume 1 1986, Volume 2 1989, Volume 3 and 4 1990, Volume 5 1995, Volume 6 (Africa, Addenda) in preparation
    • Volume 19 in 2 sub-volumes: Religion (Judaism: General, Palestinian Judaism), 1979
    • Volume 20 in 2 sub-volumes: Religion (Hellenistic Judaism in Roman times, with the exception of Philon and Josephus), 1987
    • Volume 21 in 2 parts: Religion (Hellenistic Judaism in Roman times: Philon and Josephus), 1984
    • Volume 22 in preparation (Gnosticism and related phenomena, 3 parts)
    • Volume 23 in 2 sub-volumes: Religion (Pre-Constantinian Christianity: Relationship to the Roman State and Pagan Religion), 1979, 1980
    • Volume 24 in preparation (geographic expansion, social history and internal organization of early Christianity in the pre-Constantinian period, 3 volumes)
    • Volume 25 in 6 sub-volumes: Religion (Pre-Constantine Christianity: Life and Environment of Jesus; New Testament [Canonical Scriptures and Apocrypha]), Volume 1 1982, Volume 2 1984, Volume 3 1985, Volume 4 1987, Volume 5 and 6 1988
    • Volume 26 in 6 sub-volumes: Religion (Pre-Constantinian Christianity: New Testament [Subjects]), Volume 1 1992, Volume 2 1995, Volume 3 1996, Volume 4 to 6 in preparation
    • Volume 27 in 4 sub-volumes: Religion (Pre-Constant Christianity: Apostolic Fathers and Apologists), Volume 1 1992, Volume 2 to 4 (with addenda to Volume 1) in preparation
    • Volume 28 in preparation (general topics, i.e. not limited to individual authors and works, language, literature, thought (doctrine), liturgy and art of early Christianity in the pre-constant period, in 4 volumes)
    • Volume 29 in 3 sub-volumes: Language and Literature (Languages ​​and Scripts), Volume 1 and 2 1983, Volume 3 in preparation
    • Volume 30 in 3 sub-volumes: Language and Literature (literature of the Augustan period: general, individual authors), Volume 1 and 2 1982, Volume 3 1983
    • Volume 31 in 4 sub-volumes: Language and Literature (Literature of the Augustan Era: Individual Authors, Continuations [Virgil, Horaz, Ovid]), Volume 1 1980, Volume 2 to 4 1981
    • Volume 32 in 5 sub-volumes: Language and Literature (Literature of the Julian-Claudian and Flavian Periods), Volume 1 1984, Volumes 2 and 3 1985, Volumes 4 and 5 1986
    • Volume 33 in 6 sub-volumes: Language and Literature (General information on the literature of the 2nd century and individual authors of the Trajan and early Hadrian times), Volume 1 1989, Volume 2 1990, Volume 3 to 5 1991, Volume 6 1992
    • Volume 34 in 4 sub-volumes: Language and Literature (individual authors since the Hadrianic period and general information on literature of the 2nd and 3rd centuries), Volume 1 and 2 1993, Volume 3 1997, Volume 4 1998
    • Volume 35 in preparation (general topics, i.e. not limited to individual authors and works, on forms, genres, motifs and themes and on the conditions for the creation and reception of Greek and Latin literature, in 4 volumes)
    • Volume 36 in 7 sub-volumes: Volume 1 Philosophy (Historical Introduction, Platonism), 1987, Volume 2 (Platonism Continued, Aristotelianism), 1987, Volume 3 (Stoicism) 1989, Volume 4 (Epicureanism, Skepticism, Kynismus, Orphica, Doxographica) 1990, Volume 5 (Individual Authors; Doxographica) 1992, Volume 6 (Doxographica cont.) 1992, Volume 6 (Systematic Topics; Indirect Traditions; General; Supplements), 1994
    • Volume 37 in 6 sub-volumes: Sciences, Volume 1 (Medicine and Biology) 1993, Volume 2 (Medicine and Biology Continued) 1994, Volume 3 (Medicine and Biology Continued) 1996, Volume 4 (Medicine and Biology Continued) in preparation , Volume 5 (geography, mathematics, natural sciences) in preparation, Volume 6 (natural sciences cont., Technology) in preparation

literature

  • Wolfgang Haase, Hildegard Temporini (Ed.): Rise and Decline of the Roman World (ANRW) / Rise and Decline of the Roman World. History and culture of Rome as reflected in recent research . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1972ff., ISBN 3-11-001885-3 (1st volume).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ANRW at De Gruyter
  2. ^ Homepage of Wolfgang Haase , Boston University