{"product_id":"the-roman-near-east-9780674778863","title":"The Roman Near East","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step, southward to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. In a remarkable work of interpretive history, Fergus Millar shows us this world as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Judea, Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Syria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA grand book on a grand topic… To do justice to such a topic, one needs not only a complete understanding of how the Roman Empire functioned, but also mastery of the extensive, complex, scattered, and difficult evidence for the local cultures… Very few ancient historians possess such mastery… This is a book that only Fergus Millar could have written. The breadth of expertise displayed, and the willingness to view the history of a major region of the Roman Empire from the perspective of the provinces rather than the imperial center, are hallmarks of Millar’s work, and are impossible to overpraise. There can be no question that \u003ci\u003eThe Roman Near East\u003c\/i\u003e will be for a long time to come the standard work on the subject. -- Seth Schwartz * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eThis learned, honest, and carefully constructed work studies the various regions of the [eastern] empire and their inhabitants. It asks who they actually were…and how far they had a local culture distinct from the Greco-Roman. The results are surprising… The book is full of original interpretations… [Readers] will be richly rewarded. -- Clive Foss * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThis work has been long awaited and will fill a very great need. It is an authoritative synoptic view of the entire Roman Near East, with reference to the most important recent discussions and discoveries. -- G. W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton\u003cbr\u003e[An] extraordinary book… Millar’s book provides above all the essential political, religious, and cultural framework for understanding how the three most enduring religious legacies of the ancient world for the modern world…developed in a context that was neither Eastern nor Western. -- Guy MacLean Rogers * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eThis pioneering volume follows a steady stream of other important contributions by the noted Camden Professor of Ancient History at Oxford, but its unique character and subject may make it his most durable and popular work. It transcends a mere political history of the region by exploring in depth the cultural and linguistic diversity of the population that inhabited the Near East…This is indisputably now the standard and essential guide for the Roman era in English for both scholars and students of the Near East. -- David E. Graf * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003eDestined to become a classic. -- Howard P. Krug * Seminary Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Abbreviations    1. Prologue: In Search of the Orient    I. Empire    2. The Bridgehead and the Dependent Kingdoms, 31 BC-AD 74   2.1. From the Battle of Actium to the Death of Herod the Great   2.2. From the Death of Herod the Great to the End of Tiberius' Reign   2.3. From the Reign of Gaius to the Outbreak of the Jewish War   2.4. The Jewish War and Its Aftermath    3. Imperialism and Expansion, AD 74-195   3.1. Vespasian: A New Near Eastern Empire   3.2. Trajan : Expansion and Rearrangement in the Southern Near East   3.3. The Roman Presence, AD 114-161   3.4. Emperors and Pretenders in the Near East from Lucius Verus to Septimius Severus: The Conquest of Mesopotamia    4. Rome And Mesopotamia: From Parthia To Persia   4.1. The Severan Near East as a Military Structure   4.2. Emperors on Campaign, from Caracalla to Philip the Arab Shapur's Invasions and the Empire of Palmyra, AD 252-273    5. The Tetrarchy and Constantine   5.1. The Tetrarchy: Persian Wars and Fortified Lines   5.2. The Near East in the Tetrarchic Empire, AD 284-312   5.3. Licinius and Constantine, AD 313-337: Retrospect from a Christianised Empire    II. Regions and Communities    6. Communal and Cultural Identities    7. The Tetrapolis and Northern Syria   7.1. The Geographical Context   7.2. Local Cult-Centres: Hierapolis and Doliche   7.3. Villages and Rural Temples   7.4. The Major Cities: Apamea    8. The Phoenician Coast and Its Hinterland   8.1. History and Geography   8.2. Phoenicia: The Southern Region   8.3. The Northern Coastline and Its Hinterland   8.4. The Major Cities: Byblos and Berytus   8.5. Sidon and Tyre    9. Eastern Syria Phoenice: Mountain, Oasis and Steppe   9.1. Geographical Connections   9.2. Emesa and Elagabal   9.3. Damascus and Its Region Palmyra    10. From Judaea to Syria Palaestina   10.1. History, Religion and Geography   10.2. Judaea before the First Revolt   10.3. From the First Jewish Revolt to the Second   10.4. Syria Palaestina    11. Arabia   11.1. Regions and Cultures   11.2. The Kingdom of Nabataea   11.3. The Decapolis in the First Century   11.4. The New Province of Arabia   11.5. The Nomadic Presence    12. The Euphrates and Mesopotamia   12.1. Geography, Culture and Language   12.2. Dura-Europos in the Parthian Period   12.3. The Middle Euphrates and the Coming of Rome   12.4. Roman Dura-Europos   12.5. Edessa as a Kingdom and Roman Colony until the Middle of the Third Century   12.6. Social and Religious Currents in the Fourth Century    13. Epilogue: East and West   13.1. East?    13.2. West?    Appendix A. The Inscriptions of the Tetrarchic Land-Surveyors   Appendix B. Documents from the Bar Kochba War   Appendix C. Materials for the History of Roman Edessa and Osrhoene, AD 163-337   Maps    I. The Near East: Areas Covered by Maps II-XII   II. The Roman Near East: Main Sites and Geographical Features   III. Northwestern Syria and Mount Amanus   IV. The Phoenician Coast and Western Syria Phoenice   V. The Central Syrian Steppe, Pabnyra and the Euphrates   VI. Judaea\/Syria Palaestina, Western Arabia   VII. Southeastern Syria Phoenice, Northern Arabia   VIII. Petra and South-Central Arabia   IX. Arabia, with Sinai, the Red Sea and the Hedjaz   X. Eastern Syria, the Euphrates and Western Mesopotamia   XI. Central Mesopotamia and Mons Masius   XII. The Eastern Syrian Steppe and the Middle Euphrates    General Index   Index of Literary Sources   Index of Documents","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51455992037719,"sku":"9780674778863","price":37.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674778863.jpg?v=1755033353","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-roman-near-east-9780674778863","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}