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By Fergus Millar
This quantity completes the three-volume choice of Fergus Millar's essays, which, along with his books, remodeled the learn of the Roman Empire by way of moving the focal point of inquiry onto the wider Mediterranean global and past. The eighteen essays awarded the following contain Millar's vintage contributions to our realizing of the impression of Rome at the peoples, cultures, and religions of the japanese Mediterranean, and the level to which Graeco-Roman tradition acted as a motor vehicle for the self-expression of the indigenous cultures. In an epilogue written to finish the gathering, Millar argues for rethinking the focal point of "ancient background" itself and for contemplating the Levant and the jap Mediterranean from the 1st millennium B.C. to the Islamic conquests a legitimate scholarly framework and a suitable academic syllabus for the research of antiquity. English translations of prolonged old passages in Greek, Latin, and Semitic languages in the entire essays make Millar's most crucial articles obtainable for the 1st time to experts and nonspecialists alike.
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T. Lenger, Corpus des ordonnances des Ptolémées 2 (Brussels, ), no. ; Austin (n. ), no. . The Hellenistic World and Rome As was hinted earlier, any notions of what social, economic, cultural, or social status is implied by the expression sōmata laika eleuthera must remain hypothetical. Even if we disregard acute regional variations (see below), it is no use pretending that we have any idea of the typical forms of property relations in the Syrian area either before or after Alexander’s conquest.
The Maccabean wars stretched from the cities of the Philistine coast, like Azotus with its temple of the Philistine god, Dagon (‘‘Bethdagon,’’ Macc. :– ), to the fortified villages (ochuromata) of Idumaea ( Macc. :) or Transjordan ( Macc. :–). In Macc. :– a whole string of places across the Jordan, all of which have retained analogous Arabic names until modern times—‘‘Bosora,’’ ‘‘Bosor,’’ ‘‘Alema,’’ ‘‘Chaspho,’’ ‘‘Maked,’’ ‘‘Karnaim’’— are described as large, fortified poleis.
If we are going to ask about the nature or limits of Hellenisation, there is a prior question: the Hellenisation of what? 8 The only known cuneiform archive from Syria, found near Aleppo and dating to the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid periods,9 will serve to remind us of how much we do not know. 10 Written in Harran in the first year of a king named Darius, it records a sale by two people with Aramaic names to a person whose father has the Edomite/Idumaean name of Qusu-yada’. It was found at Tell Tawilan near Petra and thus clearly reflects the type of movement and interchange round the Fertile Crescent hinted at above.