The Greco-Roman East: Politics, Culture, Society: 31 (Yale Classical Studies, Series Number 31) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521828759 ISBN 13: 9780521828758

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

This collection of essays by specialists in the field focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The essays draw on discoveries in archaeology and epigraphy, and discuss developments in methods and interpretations as well as a wide range of social and historical issues.

About the Author:

Stephen Colvin is Associate Professor of Greek Literature and Linguistics at Yale University. He is the author of Dialect in Aristophanes (Oxford, 1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521828759
• ISBN 13: 9780521828758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Colvin Stephen