Details

Subject(s)

• Middle East—History—To 622 [Browse]
• Syria—History—To 333 B.C. [Browse]
• Syria—History—333 B.C.-634 A.D. [Browse]

Editor

• Raja, Rubina, 1975- [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

"Hellenistic and Roman Syria and the Near East has been studied for centuries. This handbook includes 50 chapters written by experts from a variety of disciplines: archaeology, including classical, near eastern and Islamic archaeology, ancient history, anthropology, art history, data and network science, epigraphy, and historiography. Together these chapters shed new 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 the historical sources as well as scientific results coming out of archaeological science as well as network science and shows in which ways new knowledge about the region can be brought to the forefront. The dynamic, volatile, diverse, and culturally rich regions have left us with a world heritage that is abundant - and in many places unfortunately also under constant threat. In this handbook knowledge about the newest research on numerous of these regions, sites and locations is forefronted together with overviews of the history of research. The handbook will be essential for students, scholars and the interested reader and will constitute a solid place to begin research and from which to gain an overview of the state of the art within the field"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The Hellenistic and Roman Near East : an introduction / Rubina Raja
• The Hellenistic Near East : a dynamic canvas / David Engels
• Embedding global diversity in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East : setting the agenda / Miguel John Versluys
• The Hellenistic and Roman Near East : geography and climate / Eivind Heldaas Seland
• Art in Hellenistic Syria / Achim Lichtenberger
• Coinage in Hellenistic Syria / Oliver D. Hoover
• Roman art in the Near East / Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja
• Coinage in Roman Syria / Kristina Neumann
• Parthian art and Coinage / Olympia Bobou
• The Sasanian Empire and / Anne Hunnell Chen
• The visual arts of Umayyad Syria / Nadia Ali
• Hellenistic rule and Roman operations in Babylonia and Assyria / John MacGinnis
• Pompey and the Near East / Nathanael Andrade and Rubina Raja
• 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
• Roman colonies in the Near East / Julien Aliquot
• The Roman army in Syria : size, mission, deployment, and interactions / Michael A. Speidel
• Road and transport networks in Hellenistic and Roman Syria / Adam Pažout
• The Jewish wars, the Roman emperors, and their impact / Kimberley Czajkowski
• Divus Traianus Parthicus and the Middle East / Karl Strobel
• Hadrian in the East / Mary T. Boatwright
• The Severans : a Near Eastern Roman Empire? / Julia Hoffmann-Salz
• The Parthians : an empire on the rise / Peter Edwell
• The Roman Near East in the time of the Tetrarchy and Constantine I (AD 284-337) / Volker Menze
• Religious life in the Near East : plurality, variation, and innovation / Nathanael Andrade
• The Christian Near East in late antiquity / Volker Menze
• Urbanization and cities in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East / Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja
• Nomads in the Classical and Byzantine Near East / Gideon Avni and Steven A Rosen
• Commagene / Matthew P. Canepa
• Edessa (4th Century BC to the 8th Century AD) / Hartmut Leppin
• The Hellenistic forts on the Euphrates in Syria and Jebel Khalid / Graeme Clarke
• Europos-Dura (ca. 300 BC-AD 256) / Pierre Leriche
• The cities of Persia / Henry P. Colburn
• Parthian Sites in Iran and Central Asia / Leonardo Gregoratti
• Parthian Hatra and the Aatistic koinè in the figurative arts of the Syrian-Mesopotamian Steppe / Lucinda Dirven
• Palmyra / Olympia Bobou
• Hellenistic and Roman Haurān : a well-connected Near Eastern Region with a local style / Anna-Katharina Rieger
• Damascus and the region : fourth century BC-eighth century AD / Ross Burns
• Temples, tombs, and villages : the limestone massif in North Syria / Michael Blömer
• Hierapolis and Doliche : two cities of ancient North Syria and their cults / Michael Blömer
• The Tetrapolis region : cities and culture / Catherine Saliou
• Antioch on the Orontes : the urban image / Andrea U. De Giorgi
• Apamea on the Orontes / Janine Balty and Jean-Charles Balty
• The Decapolis / Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja
• Hellenistic and Roman Phoenicia / Corinne Bonnet
• Hellenistic and Roman Baalbek and the Bekaa / Simone Eid Paturel
• Mount Hermon / Julien Aliquot
• Iudaea/Palaestina / Avner Ecker
• Petra during the Nabataean, Roman, and Byzantine periods / Laurent Tholbecq
• Eastern Arabia and the Persian Gulf in the Hellenistic and late antique period / R. A. Carter
• Arabia from the Hellenistic to the late Roman/Byzantine period / Stephan G. Schmid and Zbigniew T. Fiema.

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ISBN

• 9780190858155 (hardcover)
• 019085815X (hardcover)

LCCN

2024047699

OCLC

1482022376

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