Benjamin Isaac

Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the Graeco-Roman world suffered from major power conflicts, imperial ambition, and ethnic, religious and racist strife.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9781316501672
• ISBN-10: 1316501671
• Artikelnr.: 61446461

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Isaac and Israel Roll

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Roma Aeterna
2. Roman victory displayed: symbols, allegories, and personificiations?
3. Army and violence
4. Innovation and war
5. Core-periphery notions
6. Names: ethnic, geographic and administrative
7. Attitudes towards provincial intellectuals in the Roman Empire
8. Proto-racism in Graeco-Roman antiquity
9. The barbarian in Greek and Roman literature
10. Romans and nomads in the fourth century
11. A multi-cultural Mediterranean?
12. Latin in cities of the Roman Near East
13. Ancient antisemitism
14. Roman religious policy and the Bar Kokhba war
15. Jews, Christians and others in Palestine: the evidence from Eusebius
16. Roman organization in the Arabah in the fourth century AD
17. Hatra against Rome and Persia: from success to destruction.