Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar's published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire (some of them published in inaccessible journals). Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire worked in practice and what it was like to live under Roman rule. As in the first volume of the collection, English translations of the extended Greek and Latin passages in the original articles make Millar's essays accessible to readers who do not read these languages.

弗格斯-米勒是当代最有影响力的古代世界历史学家之一。他的论文和书籍，首先是《罗马世界的皇帝》和《罗马近东》，改变了我们对希腊-罗马世界的社区文化和公民政府的理解。米勒出版的三卷本论文集的第二卷汇集了他关于罗马帝国的政府、社会和文化的20篇经典文章（其中一些发表在难以获得的期刊上）。第二卷中的每一篇文章都涉及罗马帝国如何在实践中运作以及在罗马统治下生活是什么样子的主题。与该文集的第一卷一样，原始文章中扩展的希腊语和拉丁语段落的英译使米勒的文章能够为不阅读这些语言的读者所接受。