The Greco-Roman East

Politics, Culture, Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-521-03558-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

Reihe: Yale Classical Studies

This collection of papers illustrates how our picture of the Greco-Roman East has changed in recent decades. The chapters, by a distinguished international cast of contributors, present a view of life in the Eastern Empire from the bottom up, and show how a thoughtful use of both more recent and existing material evidence can shed light on aspects of social and political life that could barely be guessed at from the literary record alone. The evidence of coins, inscriptions and archaeological data is used in the investigation of wider socio-historical issues, including processes of Hellenization and acculturation, the permeability and flexibility of political boundaries at all levels, the interaction of civil and religious authority, and the operation of networks of patronage and power from the highest to the lowest social level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colvin, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Under the watchful eyes of the gods: divine justice in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor Angelos Chaniotis; 2. Names in Hellenistic and Roman Lycia Stephen Colvin; 3. Caracalla et son médecin L. Gellius Maximus. Antioche de Pisidie Michel Christol and Thomas Drew-Bear; 4. Roman material culture across imperial frontiers? Three case studies from Parthian Dura-Europos Nigel Pollard; 5. Sympoliteiai in Hellenistic Asia Minor Gary L. Reger; 6. Hellenism on the periphery: the case of Cilicia and an etymology of soloikismos Giovanni Salmeri; 7. Leon son of Chrysaor and the religious identity of Stratonikeia in Caria Riet van Bremen; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Colvin, Stephen
Stephen Colvin is Associate Professor of Greek Literature and Linguistics at Yale University. He is the author of Dialect in Aristophanes (Oxford, 1999).