著者
宮嵜 麻子 Asako Miyazaki
雑誌
国際経営・文化研究 = Cross-cultural business and cultural studies (ISSN:13431412)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.18, no.2, pp.79-92, 2014-03-01

Although there are no testimonies which present piracy as crucial menace for Romans, they had increasingly carried out the military actions against pirates by the end of the 2nd. Century B.C. That appears to be explained by two factors:1. An imperialistic tactics: Rome would have presented themselves as a protector of the mediterranean world by the suppression of pirates.2 A measure in the Roman political life: The military success gave Roman elites some political advantages.It would seem that piracy was a political issue for Romans in these two meanings. However, evidences of Roman attack against Cilician pirates in 102-100 B.C. show us that the pirates would have brought Romans into certain critical conditions. The judgment on this supposition requires us an inquiry into the situation in the following century.
著者
宮嵜 麻子 Asako Miyazaki
出版者
国際コミュニケーション学会
雑誌
国際経営・文化研究 = Cross-cultural business and cultural studies (ISSN:13431412)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.20, no.1, pp.109-126, 2015-11

Ancient evidences of piracy in the first half of the first century B.C., in general, report the mutual assistance between Mithridates, king of Pontos, the most implacable enemy of Romans and the Cilician pirates. In some phases of conflicts and wars between the king and Romans, this paper finds out two different though interrelated dimensions around piracy as a political issue in this period:・ A Roman imperialistic tactics which exploits the label of the co-operator to the pirates against Mithridates.・ A measure for the Roman elites to gain a political superiority through imperium and the success in the war against Mithridates and pirates.This character of piracy is essentially similar to the situation in the second century B.C. However, the third dimension also appears apparent in the first half of the first century:・ Actions such as pillage, slaughter or kidnapping by pirates supported by Mithridates gave Roman society a severe damage which requested the Senate to take a thorough measure to suppress the pirates. This situation let the Senate permit some Roman commanders imperium extra ordinem――a temporally and spatially huge military power.
著者
宮嵜 麻子 Asako Miyazaki
出版者
国際コミュニケーション学会
雑誌
国際経営・文化研究 = Cross-cultural business and cultural studies (ISSN:13431412)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.18, no.2, pp.79-92, 2014-03

Although there are no testimonies which present piracy as crucial menace for Romans, they had increasingly carried out the military actions against pirates by the end of the 2nd. Century B.C. That appears to be explained by two factors:1. An imperialistic tactics: Rome would have presented themselves as a protector of the mediterranean world by the suppression of pirates.2 A measure in the Roman political life: The military success gave Roman elites some political advantages.It would seem that piracy was a political issue for Romans in these two meanings. However, evidences of Roman attack against Cilician pirates in 102-100 B.C. show us that the pirates would have brought Romans into certain critical conditions. The judgment on this supposition requires us an inquiry into the situation in the following century.