Augustus separated Cyprus from Egypt and made it a senatorial province, governed by a
proconsul. By the beginning of the first century AD, Cyprus was already becoming a political backwater in the Roman Empire.
For example: Roman marriage laws highlight why Augustine's concubine had to be dismissed (19-20); and the lack of Catholic assurance of triumph in the Donatist controversy is illumined by the fact that Carthage still had a pagan
proconsul on the eve of the 411 conference that was called to condemn Donatists as heretics (113).
John Townsend paints the picture of Britain's global empire and brings Cox to life as an archetypal patrician
proconsul. This biography is based on extensive research in original sources and long experience in the region.
Ambitious, vain, and alternatively scheming, defiant, and compliant when dealing with his superiors, he was lionized as military hero during World War II, praised as
proconsul in postwar Japan, and condemned as insubordinate challenger to civilian authority during the Korean War.
Frank considers the next five years, when MacArthur ruled as virtual
proconsul of Japan, his finest hour.
Likewise, few could construe a civilian JIACOM leader as a provocative
proconsul.
The second is the revision of the Amercian
Proconsul Paul Bremer's law on dissolving the Baath Party and banning the former Baathists' from joining all government institutions and bodies.
The presiding
proconsul called for wild beasts--probably lions--to be loosed on the man.