Oliver James Henry. Greek Constitutions of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri

American Philosophical Society, 1989. — 664 p.This work was prepared by J. H. Oliver, while the manuscript was almost completed, death prevented him from putting the last hand in it. Kevin Clinton returned to work scrupulously respecting J. H.'s wishes. Oliver, especially the preservation of chronological order, but by leaving grouped the documents that were united on the same support, papyrus or stone, even if these writings were of very Legal documents are also included in the appendix, from the emperors, from the works of Flavius Josephus and the various elements forming the Corpus Juris of Rome. This addition makes sense in the perspective of the work undertaken, to the extent that one can be assured the authenticity of these texts. As the title indicates, the book contains all the letters, edicts, rescripts, instructions, speeches or other written documents in Greek, between 27 BC and 285 CE. From the emperors, of their parents or family members with an official position. These documents number 297, not including the 15 appendices from Flavius Josephus and Corpus Juris. At the end of the book is a table of correspondences with the main works that have published these documents before this collection, and an index of emperors and members of their families, with their titles.