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The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
The Near East during the Hellenistic and Roman periods has been studied for centuries. This Handbook includes fifty chapters written by experts from a variety of disciplines: archaeology (including classical, near eastern, and Islamic), ancient history, anthropology, art history, data and network science, epigraphy, and historiography. Together, these chapters shed a fresh light on the vast regions that made up Hellenistic and later Roman Syria and the Near East. The material and written evidence from the region is considered side-by-side with historical sources as well as scientific data coming out of archaeological science and network science, and shows how new knowledge about the region c...
Military Diasporas
Military Diasporas proposes a new research approach to analyse the role of foreign military personnel as composite and partly imagined para-ethnic groups. These groups not only buttressed a state or empire’s military might but crucially connected, policed, and administered (parts of) realms as a transcultural and transimperial class while representing the polity’s universal or at least cosmopolitan aspirations at court or on diplomatic and military missions. Case studies of foreign militaries with a focus on their diasporic elements include the Achaemenid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, and the Roman Empire in the ancient world. These are followed by chapters on the Sassanid and Islamic occupat...
The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion in Context
The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion to his son – preserved in a single Syriac manuscript (7th. cent. CE) – still speaks to its readers, evocatively depicting the dramatic situation of a nobleman imprisoned after the Roman capture of Samosata, capital of Commagene. The letter is best known today for a passage on the “wise king of the Jews,” which may be one of the earliest pagan testimonies concerning Jesus Christ. Ongoing controversy over the letter’s date, nature, and purpose has, however, led to the widespread neglect of this intriguing document. In the present volume, Merz and Tieleman have brought together cutting-edge research from an interdisciplinary team of leading experts that significantly advances our appreciation of the letter and its historical context.
The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes
This volume presents the results of the fourteenth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire'. It focuses on the ways in which Rome's dominance influenced, changed, and created landscapes, and examines in which ways (Roman) landscapes were narrated and semantically represented. To assess the impact of Rome on landscapes, some of the twenty contributions in this volume analyse functions and implications of newly created infrastructure. Others focus on the consequences of colonisation processes, settlement structures, regional divisions, and legal qualifications of land. Lastly, some contributions consider written and pictorial representations and their effects. In doing so, the volume offers new insights into the notion of ‘Roman landscapes’ and examines their significance for the functioning of the Roman empire.
Contextualizing Pompeiopolis
After the Pontic Kingdom’s defeat and northern Anatolia’s integration into the Roman Empire in 64/63 BCE, the region experienced an urban transformation. The victorious Pompey founded Pompeiopolis as one of seven new cities. This book publishes seminal fieldwork conducted at Pompeiopolis (2006–2016) with comparative studies on Roman cities that lays the groundwork for future research on the development of urban landscapes in the Roman East.
The Classical Review
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The Archaeology of Religious Hatred in the Roman and Early Medieval World
Sauer explores how destruction and pressure was used in the late Roman period and in the early Middle Ages to achieve for Christianity what persuiasion alone could not attain.
Die Anfänge der sasanidischen Herrschaftsdynastie und die Eroberungsfeldzüge gegen Hatra 226/227 n. Chr. und 240 n. Chr.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 2,3, Universität, Veranstaltung: Proseminar alte Geschichte, 14 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Sasanidenreich, welches als das zweite persische Großreich und in der späteren Forschung als das Neupersische Reich bezeichnet wurde, erstreckte sich geographisch über die Gebiete der heutigen Staaten Iran und Irak sowie einige ihrer Randgebiete. Historisch gesehen müssten wir uns in die Zeit des letzten parthischen Großkönig Artabanos IV versetzen. Das Sasanidenreich existierte zwischen dem Ende des Parthereiches (ab 224 n. Chr.) bis zu der arabischen Eroberung Persiens im Jahre 642 n. Chr. Die Sasaniden galten als eine bedeutende Großmacht und ein gefährlicher Konkurrent für das römische und spätere oströmische Reich. Hierbei stellt sich nun die Frage, weshalb die Sasaniden als eine neue Gefahr für die römische Herrschaft angesehen wurden.
Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity
In this collection of 20 papers by international scholars, the contributors explore how group identities were established against the shifting background of the breakdown of the Roman Empire.
State Government
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