The Coming of Rome in the Dacian World

The Coming of Rome in the Dacian World provides a full and detailed account of the Roman policy being executed in the area of the Lower Danube. Besides, this book is the first analysis of the juridical forms of the Roman foreign policy in the Danube area, ranging from the first contacts to the establishment of the provincia Dacia. For the first time, the ancient sources are systematically and completely analysed in order to highlight the evolution of these forms from temporary, unofficial contacts to constant relations established through various agreements.
The relations between Pompeius and Burebista, the diplomatic and juridical consequences of the Settlement at the frontier of the Empire under Augustus in the Danube area are presented in detail without neglecting the relations between the Julio-Claudian emperors - especially Nero - and the Getae and the Dacians.
The author minutely reconstructs the provisions of the two foedera in A.D. 89 and 102, pointing out their differences as well as their similarities. He concludes that Trajan intended to transform only parts of Decebalus' kingdom into a provincia in A.D. 102; the latter was to rule as rex socius over a kingdom that had been considerably lessened and was carefully watched. In the three appendices three special problems are being analysed: the relations between Pompeius, Mithradates and Oroles, the Dacian hostages taken by the Empire and the Roman captive hostages of the Dacians.
The author emphasises in the principal conclusion of the book that "in the Danube area Rome did not create - for its relations with the Dacorum gentes - a new form, atypical to its well-established pattern of having and maintaining relations with the externae gentes."