Roma Cumhuriyet Dönemi Asia Eyaleti Legatusları: M. Ö. 133 - M. Ö. 31
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1992
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Kaya, Mehmet Ali
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Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
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This study deals with the legates of Asian Province of the Rome Republic between BC 133 and 31. These legates of the Asian provin ce are divided into two general groups: The legates ambassadors or envoys and the lieutenants for which their functions differed accor dingly. For that reason the Rome period Asian legates, in the Repub lican period of Rome, played an important role in the politics of the Asian province. The first chapter of this study provides a summary of the relati ons of the organization of the Asian province until the BC 133. In the second chapter a general information was given about the legates as it was a special phenomenon for Rome. This general information covers the general functions and the social and political status of the legates within the period of the historical development of Rome. In the third chapter, a chronological data was provided for the 36 legates which had functioned in the Asian province of Rome between BC 133 and 31. The lives and the activities of these legates in Ro- mewere described and their titles as legates were discussed. A statistical classification of the function of these legates ( like legates ambassadors, envoys, lieutenants, Legatio libera, legatus pro praetore) was given in the fourth chapter of this study parallel to the chronological data provided in the third chapter. Their social status, if they were senator or not and if they were magistrate or not was discussed. The fifth chapter deals with the political role of the legates to wards the Asian province of Rome in the periods starting from the or-146 ganization of the province to the first Mithiidatic War (BC 133-88); I. and II. Mithridatlc Wars (BC 88-74); during the III. Mithridatic War (BC 74-67); and to the end of the III. Mithiidatic War until BC 31. In conclusion, in the period between BC 133 and 31, the multi functional role of the above mentioned 36 legates, both from the poli tical and social point of view was very important in determining the diplomatical, political and war policies of the Rome province.
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Cumhuriyet Dönemi