This database originates in the research project ‘The Foreign Friends of Rome’. From 2002 to 2008, it formed part of the Trier-based Collaborate Research Centre 600 Strangers and Poor People. Modes of Inclusion and Exclusion from Antiquity to the Present Day (SFB 600). Dozens of case studies and systematic analyses of the ‘friendly’ relations between the Romans and their partners throughout the Mediterranean World and even beyond have resulted from this undertaking (cf. list of publications with abstracts). The prosopographical data on which many of these publications are based have been made available in 2004 for the first time. Thanks to the support of a growing network of authors, there is hope that the collection may at least approach completeness in the future.
Scope of the Project
APR targets all extra-Italian individuals that made friends with the Roman state (as represented by the senate, the assembly of the people, a magistrate, or pro-magistrate) or less formally with a Roman aristocrat. This automatically entails a concentration on the period from the Hannibalic War (218-201 BC) down to the Flavian period (AD 69-96). But these are to be considered no more than ‘soft’ limits. At their one end, e.g., the kings of Egypt have been included as far back as Ptolemy II Philadelphos, who entered into friendly relations with Rome in 273 BC; at the other end, some rulers remained – consistently or at least occasionally – on friendly terms with Rome right into the 3rd century AD, such as the Abgars of Osrhoene. But it is the Bosporan kings that boast the longest continuity of amicitia relations with Rome: they are attested as late as the early 5th century AD. However, apart from such exceptions, the Alamanic and Gothic incursions, coupled with the ascension of the Sasanid dynasty in Parthia during the 3rd century, mark the beginnings of a new era. These events are normally taken as lower limits of APR.
Credits
This database has been designed and edited by
Altay Coşkun
SFB 600, University of Trier, Germany 2002-2008
& Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies, University of Waterloo since 2009
The project ‘The Foreign Friends of Rome’ had been directed by
Heinz Heinen (Trier)
Articles have been contributed (or committed for the next update) by
Sheila L. Ager (Waterloo)
Alexandru Avram (Lemans)
Konstantin Boshnakov (Toronto)
Luis Ballesteros Pastor (Sevilla)
Kathrin Christmann (Marienthal/Pfalz)
Victor Cojocaru (Iasi)
Madalina Dana (Paris)
Dorit Engster (Göttingen)
David Engels (Brüssel)
Johannes Engels (Köln)
Margherita Facella (Pisa)
Andrew Faulkner (Waterloo)
Oleg Gabelko (Moskau)
Heinz Heinen (Trier)
Wassiliki Kalfoglu-Kaloterakis (Thessaloniki)
John Lamberty (Luxemburg)
Alexandrina-Victoria Litu-Girboviceanu (Bukarest)
Andreas Luther (Kiel)
Stefan Pfeiffer (Chemnitz)
Henrik Prantl (Trier)
Ligia Ruscu (Klausenburg-Cluj)
Eduardo Sánchez Moreno (Madrid)
Andrea Raggi (Pisa)
Federico Santangelo (Newcastle)
Wolfgang Spickermann (Erfurt)
Simon Thijs (Trier)
Manuel Tröster (Wien)
Rik van Wijlick (Durham)
Julia Wilker (Berlin)
Jürgen Zeidler (Trier)
Links:
Download APR 04
Suggestions for additions or improvements are welcome and should be directed to acoskun (at) uwaterloo.ca.
The next update (APR 05) is scheduled for winter 2013.
