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Sinews of empire : networks in the Roman Near East and beyond /

A recent surge of interest in network approaches to the study of the ancient world has enabled scholars of the Roman Empire to move beyond traditional narratives of domination, resistance, integration and fragmentation. This relational turn has not only offers tools to identify, map, visualize and,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Teigen, Håkon Fiane (Editor ), Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2017.
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  • Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Sinews of empire and the relational turn in classical scholarship Håkon Fiane Teigen and Eivind Heldaas Seland; 1 Going mental: Culture, exchange and compromise in Rome's trade with the East Wim Broekaert; 2 Sinews of belief, anchors of devotion: the cult of Zeus Kasios in the Mediterranean Anna Collar; 3 Numismatic communities in the northern South Caucasus 300 BCE-300 CE: A geospatial analysis of coin finds from Caucasian Iberia and Caucasian Albania Lara Fabian.
  • 4 The diffusion of architectural innovations: Modelling social networks in the ancient building trade Henrik Gerding and Per Östborn5 Texture of empire: Personal networks and the modus operandi of Roman hegemony Michael Sommer; 6 Sinews of the other empire: The Parthian Great King's rule over vassal kingdoms Leonardo Gregoratti; 7 Speech patterns as indicators of religious identities: The Manichaean community in Late Antique Egypt Mattias Brand; 8 Networking beyond death: Priests and their family networks in Palmyra explored through the funerary sculpture Rubina Raja.
  • 9 Trade networks among the army camps of the Eastern Desert of Roman Egypt Yanne Broux10 Palmyrene merchant networks and economic integration in competitive markets Katia Schörle; 11 Businessmen and local elites in the Lycos valley Kerstin Droß-Krüpe; 12 The social networks of Late Antique western Thebes Elisabeth O'Connell and Giovanni R. Ruffini.