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This paper aims to show how local civic communities, nominally subject to the Seleucid dynasts, integrated Roman magistrates into an existing framework of authority during the late second and early first centuries BCE. I argue that as Roman magistrates played an increasingly significant role in the region, cities initially framed them in quasi-regal terms, which their interlocutors consciously accepted. Through a close reading of two Roman letters to the Cilician city of Mopsuestia, dated to 87 BCE (SEG 44.1227), and analysis of literary, epigraphic, and numismatic evidence for the final collapse of Seleucid authority in the early 60s BCE, I reveal that this was a locally driven process. Consequently, local agents played a critical role in both legitimising Roman hegemony in local contexts and encouraging Roman intervention within the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to explore the discursive picture that Cicero builds of himself in the set of letters sent to Atticus on his way to Cilicia (Cic, Att. 5.1-15). Bearing in mind that the discursive portrait the speaker fashions for himself is rooted in stereotypes or collective representations that affect not only self-presentation but also the portrait's success in a given culture, in these letters we will explore the ways the sender will mould his actions into exemplary ones. Our hypothesis is that Cicero's self-fashioning as an exemplary governor is an attempt to counteract the problem of invisibility inherent in his being away from the Vrbs. Indeed, considering that political life during the late Republic and early Empire was centered on the capital city, being away from this center entailed a serious threat to Cicero's persona or public image due to the fact that, because of his nouitas, this image was inherently precarious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Acacius's significance relates to the controversies between Arianism and monolithic church doctrine, and as a consequence, the ideas that developed during the 4th century that caused turmoil in the Eastern Church. After the condemnation of Arius's doctrine as heretical at the Nicaean Council in A.D. 325, orthodox opponents regarded many bishops as heretics; some were expelled, while others, called Homoians, formed the base of the episcopate. Acacius, was appointed as episcopus by Acacius Caesariensis in 360 (?), presumably up to 379 (?), after Silvanus of the Ecclesia Tarsensis Metropolis of Dioecesis Antiochena (Le Quien, 869 sqq.). He was cited and studied by Basilius, Epiphanius, Sozomenus, and Theodoretus, who were interested in the Churches' dealings with heretics. This paper analyzes the acts that played determinative roles in this interaction and focuses on the religious viewpoints that this aroused as well as the social and economic problems that the late Roman Empire faced in managing the Cilician territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]