Urban Development And Regional Identity In The Eastern Roman Provinces 50 Bc Ad 250

Author : Rubina Raja
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788763526067

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Urban Development and Regional Identity in the Eastern Roman Provinces, 50 BC-AD 250 by Rubina Raja Pdf

This study presents a comparative treatment of four East Roman provinces in the period 50 BC-AD 250 (Aphrodisias and Ephesos in Turkey, Athens in Greece, and Gerasa in Jordan), and it examines the instrumental factors behind regional and local urban developments. It argues that local communities were responsible for the organization and development of public space and buildings, which lends itself to an understanding of self-knowledge in these communities. Through a discussion of the interaction between architectural developments and historical and regional factors, this compelling study examines the interaction between the built environment, the social/political culture, and the urban identity in the eastern Roman Empire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788763538114

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Classica et Mediaevalia vol. 61 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004414365

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Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World, 150 BCE - 250 CE by Anonim Pdf

Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World offers comprehensive reconstructions of the urban systems of large parts of the Roman Empire. In accounting for region-specific urban patterns it uses a combination of diachronic and synchronic approaches.

Author : Dylan K. Rogers,Claire J. Weiss
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789692198

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A Quaint & Curious Volume: Essays in Honor of John J. Dobbins by Dylan K. Rogers,Claire J. Weiss Pdf

Contributions in honour of John J. Dobbins, Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia, offers new readings of archaeological data and art, illustrating the impact that one professor can have on the wider field of Roman art and archaeology through the continuing work of his students.

Author : Ross Burns
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191087455

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Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East by Ross Burns Pdf

The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve? The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to another, was in the course of little more than a century transformed in the Eastern provinces into a monumental landscape which could in one sweeping vision encompass the entire city. The colonnaded axes became the touchstone by which cities competed for status in the Eastern Empire. Though adopted as a sign of cities' prosperity under the Pax Romana, they were not particularly 'Roman' in their origin. Rather, they reflected the inventiveness, fertility of ideas and the dynamic role of civic patronage in the Eastern provinces in the first two centuries under Rome. This study will concentrate on the convergence of ideas behind these great avenues, examining over fifty sites in an attempt to work out the sequence in which ideas developed across a variety of regions-from North Africa around to Asia Minor. It will look at the phenomenon in the context of the consolidation of Roman rule.

Author : Ted Kaizer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444339826

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A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East by Ted Kaizer Pdf

Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman Near Eastern history. The book is divided into sections dealing with interdisciplinary source material, each with a great deal of regional variety and engaging with several key themes. It integrates discussions of the classical Near East with the typical undergraduate teaching syllabus in the Anglo-Saxon world. All contributors in this edited volume are leading scholars in their field, with a combination of established researchers and academics, and emerging voices. Contributors hail from countries across several continents, and work in various disciplines, including Ancient History, Archaeology, Art History, Epigraphy, Numismatics, and Oriental Studies. In addition to furthering the integration of the Levantine lands in the classical periods into the teaching canon, the book offers readers: The first comprehensively structured Companion and edited handbook on the Hellenistic and Roman Near East Extensive regional and sub-regional variety in the cross-disciplinary source material A way to compensate for the recent destruction of monuments in the region and the new generation of researchers’ inability to examine these historical stages in person An integration of the study of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East with traditional undergraduate teaching syllabi in the Anglo-Saxon world Perfect for undergraduate history and classics students studying the Near East, A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East will also earn a place in the libraries of graduate students and scholars working within Near Eastern studies, as well as interested members of the public with a passion for history.

Author : Nicola Chiarenza,Annette Haug,Ulrich Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110677126

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The Power of Urban Water by Nicola Chiarenza,Annette Haug,Ulrich Müller Pdf

Water is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle Ages have hardly been researched until now. The numerous contributions to this volume pose questions such as what the basic cultural significance of water was, the power of water, in the town and for the town, from different points of view. Symbolic, aesthetic, and cult aspects are taken up, as is the role of water in politics, society, and economy, in daily life, but also in processes of urban planning or in urban neighbourhoods. Not least, the dangers of polluted water or of flooding presented a challenge to urban society. The contributions in this volume draw attention to the complex, manifold relations between water and human beings. This collection presents the results of an international conference in Kiel in 2018. It is directed towards both scholars in ancient and mediaeval studies and all those interested in the diversity of water systems in urban space in ancient and mediaeval times.

Author : Arthur Segal
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781842178348

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Temples and Sanctuaries in the Roman East by Arthur Segal Pdf

This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. Religious architecture gave faithful expression to the complexity of the Roman East and to its multiplicity of traditions pertaining to ethnic and religious aspects as well as to the powerful influence of Imperial Rome. The source of this power lay in the uniformity of the architectural language, the inventory of forms, the choice of styles and the spatial layout of the buildings. Thus, while temples have an eclectic character, there is an underlying unity of form comprising the podium, the stairway between the terminating walls (antae) and the columns along the entrance front - in other words, the axiality, frontality and symmetry of the temple as viewed from outside. The temples and sanctuaries studied in this volume demonstrate individual nuances of plan, spatial design, location in the sanctuary and interrelations with the immediate vicinity but can be divided into two main categories: Vitruvian temples (derived from Hellenistic-Roman architecture) and Non-Vitruvian temples (those with plans and spatial designs that cannot be analysed according to architectural criteria such as those defined by Vitruvius). The individual descriptions presented focus solely upon the analysis of the external and internal space of the temples of all types and do not involve any cultural or ethnic discussion.

Author : Sergey Minov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004445512

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Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures by Sergey Minov Pdf

In Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures, Sergey Minov analyses the role played by the pseudepigraphic work known as the Cave of Treasures in the formation of cultural memory and collective identity among Syriac Christians of Iran during Late Antiquity.

Author : Jörg Rüpke,Greg Woolf
Publisher : Kohlhammer Verlag
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783170292253

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Religion in the Roman Empire by Jörg Rüpke,Greg Woolf Pdf

The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.

Author : Nathanael J. Andrade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107012059

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

This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.

Author : Catherine Hezser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004339064

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Rabbinic Body Language: Non-Verbal Communication in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity by Catherine Hezser Pdf

In Rabbinic Body Language Catherine Hezser examines the literary representation of non-verbal communication within rabbinic circles and in encounters with others in Palestinian rabbinic documents of late antiquity.

Author : Rubina Raja,Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119042846

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A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World by Rubina Raja,Jörg Rüpke Pdf

A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of a wide range of topics relating to the practices, expressions, and interactions of religion in antiquity, primarily in the Greco-Roman world. • Features readings that focus on religious experience and expression in the ancient world rather than solely on religious belief • Places a strong emphasis on domestic and individual religious practice • Represents the first time that the concept of “lived religion” is applied to the ancient history of religion and archaeology of religion • Includes cutting-edge data taken from top contemporary researchers and theorists in the field • Examines a large variety of themes and religious traditions across a wide geographical area and chronological span • Written to appeal equally to archaeologists and historians of religion

Author : Maggie Popkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316517567

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Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome by Maggie Popkin Pdf

This book uses ancient souvenirs and memorabilia to reveal the experiences, interests, imaginations, and aspirations of ordinary ancient Romans.

Author : Michael Flexsenhar III
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271084091

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Christians in Caesar’s Household by Michael Flexsenhar III Pdf

In this volume, Michael Flexsenhar III advances the argument that imperial slaves and freedpersons in the Roman Empire were essential to early Christians’ self-conception as a distinct people in the Mediterranean and played a multifaceted role in the making of early Christianity. Scholarship in early Christianity has for centuries viewed Roman emperors’ slaves and freedmen as responsible for ushering Christianity onto the world stage, traditionally using Paul’s allusion to “the saints from Caesar’s household” in Philippians 4:22 as a core literary lens. Merging textual and material evidence with diaspora and memory studies, Flexsenhar expands on this narrative to explore new and more nuanced representations of this group, showing how the long-accepted stories of Christian slaves and freepersons in Caesar’s household should not be taken at face value but should instead be understood within the context of Christian myth- and meaning-making. Flexsenhar analyzes textual and material evidence from the first to the sixth century, spanning Roman Asia, the Aegean rim, Gaul, and the coast of North Africa as well as the imperial capital itself. As a result, this book shows how stories of the emperor’s slaves were integral to key developments in the spread of Christianity, generating origin myths in Rome and establishing a shared history and geography there, differentiating and negotiating assimilation with other groups, and expressing commemorative language, ritual acts, and a material culture. With its thoughtful critical readings of literary and material sources and its fresh analysis of the lived experiences of imperial slaves and freedpersons, Christians in Caesar’s Household is indispensable reading for scholars of early Christianity, the origins of religion, and the Roman Empire.