Roman Phrygia - Culture and Society

Informationen zum Autor Peter Thonemann is Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Wadham College, Oxford. He is the author of The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium (2011), the winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League's prestigious Runciman Prize 2012 and co-author (with Simon Price) of The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (2010). His most recent book is an edited collection of essays on Attalid Asia Minor: Money, International Relations and the State (2013). Klappentext This multidisciplinary collection of essays transforms our understanding of ancient inner Anatolia, one of the most fascinating and understudied regions of the Roman empire. With essays on law, religion, architecture and art history, this book will be essential reading for all social and cultural historians of the Roman world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Phrygia: an anarchist history, 950 BC-AD 100 Peter Thonemann; 2. In the Phrygian mode: a region seen from without Barbara Levick; 3. The personal onomastics of Roman Phrygia Claude Brixhe; 4. Grave monuments and local identities in Roman Phrygia Ute Kelp; 5. Phrygians in relief: trends in self-representation Jane Masséglia; 6. Households and families in Roman Phrygia Peter Thonemann; 7. Law in Roman Phrygia: rules and jurisdictions Georgy Kantor; 8. An epigraphic probe into the origins of Montanism Stephen Mitchell; 9. The 'Crypto-Christian' inscriptions of Phrygia Edouard Chiricat; 10. Phrygian marble and stonemasonry as markers of regional distinctiveness in late antiquity Philipp Niewöhner; 11. The history of an idea: tracing the origins of the MAMA project Charlotte Roueché.

Product details

• Authors: Peter (University of Oxford) Thonemann
• Assisted by: Peter Thonemann (Editor), Peter (University of Oxford) Thonemann (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108465373
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46537-3
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Turkey, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Palaeography (History Of Writing), BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Biblical Archaeology