Syrian Identity In The Greco Roman World

Author : Nathanael J. Andrade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107244566

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Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World by Nathanael J. Andrade Pdf

By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek, Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways. While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts.

Author : John D. Grainger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351628686

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Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300 by John D. Grainger Pdf

The study of Syria as a Roman province has been neglected by comparison with equivalent geographical regions such as Italy, Egypt, Greece and even Gaul. It was, however, one of the economic powerhouses of the empire from its annexation until after the empire’s dissolution. As such it clearly deserves some particular consideration, but at the same time it was a major contributor to the military strength of the empire, notably in the form of the recruitment of auxiliary regiments, several dozens of which were formed from Syrians. Many pagan gods, such as Jupiter Dolichenus and Jupiter Heliopolitanus Dea Syra, and also Judaism, originated in Syria and reached the far bounds of the empire. This book is a consideration, based on original sources, of the means by which Syrians, whose country was only annexed to the empire in 64 BC, saw their influence penetrate into all levels of society from private soldiers and ordinary citizens to priests and to imperial families.

Author : Eivind Seland,Hakon Terigon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785705977

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Sinews of Empire by Eivind Seland,Hakon Terigon Pdf

A recent surge of interest in network approaches to the study of the ancient world has enabled scholars of the Roman Empire to move beyond traditional narratives of domination, resistance, integration and fragmentation. This relational turn has not only offers tools to identify, map, visualize and, in some cases, even quantify interaction based on a variety of ancient source material, but also provides a terminology to deal with the everyday ties of power, trade, and ideology that operated within, below, and beyond the superstructure of imperial rule. Thirteen contributions employ a range of quantitative, qualitative and descriptive network approaches in order to provide new perspectives on trade, communication, administration, technology, religion and municipal life in the Roman Near East and adjacent regions.

Author : Nathanael Andrade
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190638825

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Zenobia by Nathanael Andrade Pdf

Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra. By doing so, it aims to shed greater light on the experiences of Zenobia and Palmyrene women like her at various stages of their lives. Not limiting itself to the political aspects of her governance, it contemplates what inscriptions and material culture at Palmyra enable us to know about women and the practice of gender there, and thus the world that Zenobia navigated. It reflects on her clothes, house, hygiene, property owning, gestures, religious practices, funerary practices, education, languages, social identities, marriage, and experiences motherhood, along with her meteoric rise to prominence and civil war. It also ponders Zenobia's legacy in light of the contemporary human tragedy in Syria.

Author : Fruma Zachs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047406679

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The Making of a Syrian Identity by Fruma Zachs Pdf

The book takes a close look at the origins and development of the Syrian identity, during the 18th and 19th centuries, through the role of Christian Arab intellectuals and merchants, Ottomans and American missionaries. It examines its background, stages of evolution, and components.

Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191081095

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The Art of the Roman Empire by Jaś Elsner Pdf

The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes. Jas' Elsner's ground-breaking account discusses both Roman and early Christian art in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, he presents a fresh and challenging interpretation of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins. This second edition includes a new discussion of the Eurasian context of Roman art, an updated bibliography, and new, full colour illustrations.

Author : Kevin Butcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004743134

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Roman Syria and the Near East by Kevin Butcher Pdf

Outlines Syria's pivotal role in Roman history and the conflicts between the empire and its two eastern neighbors: the Parthians and Sasanians. This book discusses the consequences of empire in Syria: the provinces, 'client' kingdoms and city-states, the impact of Rome on the calendars and the economy, and the adoption of Christianity.

Author : Walter Scheidel,Ian Morris,Richard P. Saller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521780537

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The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World by Walter Scheidel,Ian Morris,Richard P. Saller Pdf

In this, the first comprehensive survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. They reflect a new interest in economic growth in antiquity and develop new methods for measuring economic development, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately.

Author : Philip A. Harland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567457363

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Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians by Philip A. Harland Pdf

This study sheds new light on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on neglected archaeological and epigraphic evidence concerning associations and immigrant groups and by incorporating insights from the social sciences. The study's unique contribution relates, in part, to its interdisciplinary character, standing at the intersection of Christian Origins, Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, and the Social Sciences. It also breaks new ground in its thoroughly comparative framework, giving the Greek and Roman evidence its due, not as mere background but as an integral factor in understanding dynamics of identity among early Christians. This makes the work particularly well suited as a text for courses that aim to understand early Christian groups and literature, including the New Testament, in relation to their Greek, Roman, and Judean contexts. Inscriptions pertaining to associations provide a new angle of vision on the ways in which members in Christian congregations and Jewish synagogues experienced belonging and expressed their identities within the Greco-Roman world. The many other groups of immigrants throughout the cities of the empire provide a particularly appropriate framework for understanding both synagogues of Judeans and groups of Jesus-followers as minority cultural groups in these same contexts. Moreover, there were both shared means of expressing identity (including fictive familial metaphors) and peculiarities in the case of both Jews and Christians as minority cultural groups, who (like other "foreigners") were sometimes characterized as dangerous, alien "anti-associations". By paying close attention to dynamics of identity and belonging within associations and cultural minority groups, we can gain new insights into Pauline, Johannine, and other early Christian communities.

Author : M. J. Versluys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107141971

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Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World by M. J. Versluys Pdf

A new interpretation of Nemrud Dağ, a key Hellenistic monument which encompasses both Greek and Persian elements.

Author : Yifat Monnickendam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108570336

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Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity by Yifat Monnickendam Pdf

Ephrem, one of the earliest Syriac Christian writers, lived on the eastern outskirts of the Roman Empire during the fourth century. Although he wrote polemical works against Jews and pagans, and identified with post-Nicene Christianity, his writings are also replete with parallels with Jewish traditions and he is the leading figure in an ongoing debate about the Jewish character of Syriac Christianity. This book focuses on early ideas about betrothal, marriage, and sexual relations, including their theological and legal implications, and positions Ephrem at a precise intersection between his Semitic origin and his Christian commitment. Alongside his adoption of customs and legal stances drawn from his Greco-Roman and Christian surroundings, Ephrem sometimes reveals unique legal concepts which are closer to early Palestinian, sectarian positions than to the Roman or Jewish worlds. The book therefore explains naturalistic legal thought in Christian literature and sheds light on the rise of Syriac Christianity.

Author : Jonathan M. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521789990

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Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity by Jonathan M. Hall Pdf

In this book Jonathan Hall seeks to demonstrate that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural groups, but social groups whose 'origins' in extraneous territories were just as often imagined as they were real. Adopting an explicitly anthropological point of view, he examines the evidence of literature, archaeology and linguistics to elucidate the nature of ethnic identity in ancient Greece. Rather than treating Greek ethnic groups as 'natural' or 'essential' - let alone 'racial' - entities, he emphasises the active, constructive and dynamic role of ethnography, genealogy, material culture and language in shaping ethnic consciousness. An introductory chapter outlines the history of the study of ethnicity in Greek antiquity.

Author : Klaas Dijkstra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Iraq
ISBN : OCLC:221746785

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Life and Loyalty by Klaas Dijkstra Pdf

Author : Paul Veyne
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226452937

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Palmyra by Paul Veyne Pdf

A “comprehensive, passionate” portrait of the magnificent ancient city destroyed by ISIS: “Veyne speaks of Palmyra as one might of a lost lover” (The Spectator). Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city, serving for centuries as a caravan stop for those crossing the Syrian Desert. It became a Roman province under Tiberius and served as the most powerful commercial center in the Middle East between the first and the third centuries CE. But when the citizens of Palmyra tried to break away from Rome, they were defeated, marking the end of the city’s prosperity. The magnificent monuments from that earlier era of wealth, a resplendent blend of Greco-Roman architecture and local influences, stretched over miles and were among the most significant buildings of the ancient world—until the arrival of ISIS. In 2015, ISIS fought to gain control of the area because it was home to a prison where many members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood had been held, and ISIS went on to systematically destroy the city and murder many of its inhabitants, including the archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad, the antiquities director of Palmyra. In this concise history, Paul Veyne offers a beautiful and moving look at this significant lost city and why it was—and still is—important. Today, we can appreciate the majesty of Palmyra only through its pictures and stories, and this “elegant” book offers a beautifully illustrated memorial that also serves as a lasting guide to a cultural treasure (Common Knowledge). “Veyne, the most eminent living historian of Rome, has written an elegiac lament on the meaning for world history of this looted city. . . . offers an excellent survey of the relationship between the city and the wider Roman Empire.” —Times Literary Supplement “Veyne surveys the city’s art and architecture, its class composition, the fire and folly of Queen Zenobia, its entire evolution.” —SFGate

Author : Jeremy McInerney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444337341

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A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean by Jeremy McInerney Pdf

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field