The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

Buch | Hardcover

940 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-085815-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	179 x 252 mm
Gewicht	1701 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	0-19-085815-X / 019085815X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-085815-5 / 9780190858155
Zustand	Neuware