Syrian Identity In The Greco Roman World

Author : Nathanael J. Andrade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107244560
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World written by Nathanael J. Andrade and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nathanael Andrade
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190638826
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zenobia written by Nathanael Andrade and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9047406672
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Syrian Identity written by Fruma Zachs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John D. Grainger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351628682
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300 written by John D. Grainger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Walter Scheidel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521780535
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World written by Walter Scheidel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Eivind Seland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1785705970
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinews of Empire written by Eivind Seland and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Yifat Monnickendam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110857033X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity written by Yifat Monnickendam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Greg Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521789820
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Roman written by Greg Woolf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the 'Romanization' of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire.

Author : M. J. Versluys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107141974
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World written by M. J. Versluys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of Nemrud Dağ, a key Hellenistic monument which encompasses both Greek and Persian elements.

Author : Jonathan M. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521789998
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity written by Jonathan M. Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.