This collection of essays derives from conferences held in Oxford and London in 2000 in celebration of the achievements and 65th birthday of Fergus Millar. The contributors offer a diverse range of approaches to the relationship between Rome and the provinces of the Empire from the Late Republic to the age of Augustine. Contents: Introduction: Pursuing democracy (J North); Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem (A Kuhrt); In search of the Pontic community in Antiquity (S Mitchell); Rome and the Jews (D R Schwartz); Tacitus' Anti-history (K Clarke); Domitian's Palace and the Imperial image (P Zanker); Imperial administration and epigraphy (W Eck); Lactantius and Augustine (P Garnsey).