The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Raja, Rubina

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Produktbeschreibung

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 can be brought to the forefront of current literature on the subject. The dynamic, volatile, diverse, and culturally rich regions that this volume focuses on have left an abundant cultural heritage--and in many places these regions are under constant threat. In this Handbook, knowledge about the newest research on a myriad of these regions, sites, and locations is highlighted together with overviews of the centuries-long history of research. The Handbook is essential for students, scholars, and the archaeologically-inclined reader, and constitutes the definitive collection of current research in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190858179
• Artikelnr.: 73184908

Autorenporträt

Rubina Raja is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. She also directs several collective research projects focusing on the archaeology, history, and cultural heritage of Palmyra, including the Palmyra Portrait Project. She is the author of Pearl of the Desert and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra.

Inhaltsangabe

* BACKGROUND CHAPTERS
* 1. The Hellenistic and Roman Near East: An Introduction
* Rubina Raja
* 2. The Hellenistic Near East: A Dynamic Canvas
* David Engels
* 3. Embedding Global Diversity in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East:
Setting the Agenda
* Miguel John Versluys
* 4. The Hellenistic and Roman Near East: Geography and Climate
* Eivind Heldaas Seland
* VISUAL ARTS AND COINAGE FROM THE REGION
* 5. Art in Hellenistic Syria
* Achim Lichtenberger
* 6. Coinage in Hellenistic Syria
* Oliver D. Hoover
* 7. Roman Art in the Near East
* Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja
* 8. Coinage in Roman Syria
* Kristina Neumann
* 9. Parthian Art and Coinage
* Olympia Bobou
* 10. The Sasanian Empire and Its Art
* Anne Hunnell Chen
* 11. The Visual Arts of Umayyad Syria
* Nadia Ali
* ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOURCES
* 12. Hellenistic Rule and Roman Operations in Babylonia and Assyria
* John MacGinnis
* 13. Pompey and the Near East
* Nathanael Andrade and Rubina Raja
* 14. The Impact of Rome in the Near East after the Battle of Actium
and the Rise of Herod: Politics and Art Intertwined
* Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja
* 15. Roman Colonies in the Near East
* Julien Aliquot
* 16. The Roman Army in Syria: Size, Mission, Deployment, and
Interactions
* Michael A. Speidel
* 17. Road and Transport Networks in Hellenistic and Roman Syria
* Adam Pa%zout
* 18. The Jewish Wars, the Roman Emperors, and Their Impact
* Kimberley Czajkowski
* 19. Divus Traianus Parthicus and the Middle East
* Karl Strobel
* 20. Hadrian in the East
* Mary T. Boatwright
* 21. The Severans: A Near Eastern Roman Empire?
* Julia Hoffmann-Salz
* 22. The Parthians: An Empire on the Rise
* Peter Edwell
* 23. The Roman Near East in the Time of the Tetrarchy and Constantine
I (AD 284-337)
* Volker Menze
* 24. Religious Life in the Near East: Plurality, Variation, and
Innovation
* Nathanael Andrade
* 25. The Christian Near East in Late Antiquity
* Volker Menze
* REGIONS AND PLACES
* 26. Urbanization and Cities in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
* Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja
* 27. Nomads in the Classical and Byzantine Near East
* Gideon Avni and Steven A Rosen
* 28. Commagene
* Matthew P. Canepa
* 29. Edessa (4th Century BC to the 8th Century AD)
* Hartmut Leppin
* 30. The Hellenistic Forts on the Euphrates in Syria and Jebel Khalid
* Graeme Clarke
* 31. Europos-Dura (ca. 300 BC-AD 256)
* Pierre Leriche
* 32. The Cities of Persia
* Henry P. Colburn
* 33. Parthian Sites in Iran and Central Asia
* Leonardo Gregoratti
* 34. Parthian Hatra and the Artistic koinè in the Figurative Arts of
the Syrian-Mesopotamian Steppe
* Lucinda Dirven
* 35. Palmyra
* Olympia Bobou
* 36. Hellenistic and Roman Hauran: A Well-Connected Near Eastern
Region with a Local Style
* Anna-Katharina Rieger
* 37. Damascus and the Region: Fourth Century BC-Eighth Century AD
* Ross Burns
* 38. Temples, Tombs, and Villages: The Limestone Massif in North Syria
* Michael Blömer
* 39. Hierapolis and Doliche: Two Cities of Ancient North Syria and
their Cults
* Michael Blömer
* 40. The Tetrapolis Region: Cities and Culture
* Catherine Saliou
* 41. Antioch on the Orontes: The Urban Image
* Andrea U. De Giorgi
* 42. Apamea on the Orontes
* Janine Balty and Jean-Charles Balty
* 43. The Decapolis
* Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja
* 44. Hellenistic and Roman Phoenicia
* Corinne Bonnet
* 45. Hellenistic and Roman Baalbek and the Bekaa
* Simone Eid Paturel
* 46. Mount Hermon
* Julien Aliquot
* 47. Iudaea/Palaestina
* Avner Ecker
* 48. Petra during the Nabataean, Roman, and Byzantine Periods
* Laurent Tholbecq
* 49. Eastern Arabia and the Persian Gulf in the Hellenistic and Late
Antique Period
* R. A. Carter
* 50. Arabia from the Hellenistic to the Late Roman/Byzantine Period
* Stephan G. Schmid and Zbigniew T. Fiema