The Greco-Roman East
Politics, Culture, Society

An alternative socio-historical perspective of life in the Greco-Roman East, offered by specialists in this field.

Stephen Colvin (Edited by)

9780521035583, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 May 2007

296 pages, 9 b/w illus. 2 maps 1 table
22.8 x 15 x 1.6 cm, 0.44 kg

This collection of papers illustrates how our picture of the Greco-Roman East has changed in recent decades. The chapters, by a distinguished international cast of contributors, present a view of life in the Eastern Empire from the bottom up, and show how a thoughtful use of both more recent and existing material evidence can shed light on aspects of social and political life that could barely be guessed at from the literary record alone. The evidence of coins, inscriptions and archaeological data is used in the investigation of wider socio-historical issues, including processes of Hellenization and acculturation, the permeability and flexibility of political boundaries at all levels, the interaction of civil and religious authority, and the operation of networks of patronage and power from the highest to the lowest social level.

List of illustrations
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Under the watchful eyes of the gods: divine justice in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor Angelos Chaniotis
2. Names in Hellenistic and Roman Lycia Stephen Colvin
3. Caracalla et son médecin L. Gellius Maximus à Antioche de Pisidie Michel Christol and Thomas Drew-Bear
4. Roman material culture across imperial frontiers? Three case studies from Parthian Dura-Europos Nigel Pollard
5. Sympoliteiai in Hellenistic Asia Minor Gary L. Reger
6. Hellenism on the periphery: the case of Cilicia and an etymology of soloikismos Giovanni Salmeri
7. Leon son of Chrysaor and the religious identity of Stratonikeia in Caria Riet van Bremen
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology [HDDK], General & world history [HBG]