Download or read book Revaluing Roman Cyprus written by Ersin Hussein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Revaluing Roman Cyprus, Ersin Hussein provides a study of local identity formation in Roman Cyprus addresses its traditional characterisation as a weary, uneventful, and insignificant province and champions it as a rich case study for investigations of the Roman Empire. Hussein collates well-known, overlooked, and newly uncovered evidence to revaluate local responses to, and experiences of, Roman rule. The investigation opens with a look at the island as a real and imagined space to explore its marginalisation in ancient and modern scholarly narratives. Hussein revisits the events surrounding the annexation of the island by Rome from Ptolemaic Egypt and its subsequent administration to establish the dynamics between the inhabitants of the island and their rulers. The spread and impact of Roman citizenship across the island is assessed through an exploration of the strategies employed by individuals to distinguish themselves in local and regional contexts. Hussein examines the poleis of Roman Cyprus, notably the preservation of their myths in literary records and the production of these in the material record, are examined to explore collective identity formation. Roman Cyprus is revealed as an active and dynamic participant in negotiating its identity and status in the Roman Empire. An island was poised between multiple landscapes, Hussein shows how Cyprus maintained deep-rooted connections between mainland Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Near East.
Download or read book Revaluing Roman Cyprus written by Ersin Hussein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Revaluing Roman Cyprus, Ersin Hussein provides a study of local identity formation in Roman Cyprus addresses its traditional characterisation as a weary, uneventful, and insignificant province and champions it as a rich case study for investigations of the Roman Empire. Hussein collates well-known, overlooked, and newly uncovered evidence to revaluate local responses to, and experiences of, Roman rule. The investigation opens with a look at the island as a real and imagined space to explore its marginalisation in ancient and modern scholarly narratives. Hussein revisits the events surrounding the annexation of the island by Rome from Ptolemaic Egypt and its subsequent administration to establish the dynamics between the inhabitants of the island and their rulers. The spread and impact of Roman citizenship across the island is assessed through an exploration of the strategies employed by individuals to distinguish themselves in local and regional contexts. Hussein examines the poleis of Roman Cyprus, notably the preservation of their myths in literary records and the production of these in the material record, are examined to explore collective identity formation. Roman Cyprus is revealed as an active and dynamic participant in negotiating its identity and status in the Roman Empire. An island was poised between multiple landscapes, Hussein shows how Cyprus maintained deep-rooted connections between mainland Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Near East.
Download or read book Roman Cyprus written by Terence Bruce Mitford and published by . This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Cyprus written by John Robert Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present dissertation constitutes a case study of the economy of Roman Cyprus (mid-1 st c. BC-late 7 th c. AD), based on the archaeological and historical records of the Cypriot coasts in combination with comparative late-19 th -Century-to-ca. 1960 data concerning the late premodern Cypriot economy--especially the carob trade. Through the Cyprus Coastal Survey, a non-intensive, preliminary investigation of southern Cypriot coasts, all main and many local ports exploited in Roman times are shown to have been used also in the late premodern economy. Certain key patterns of post-antique Cypriot land use and exchange remained largely unchanged and appear to reflect basic patterns of production and local and long-distance cabotage during Roman times. Roman Cyprus is argued to have been a dynamic, resource-rich, maritime emporium that lay amidst major East-West sea lanes. Prosperity during Roman times is undisputed by contemporary historians, but as a province Cyprus has often been characterized as a somnolent, inconsequential backwater, largely unattractive to and unheeded by Roman imperial authorities. On the contrary, Cyprus held long-standing concern for Rome due primarily to its central maritime position and rich economic potential. Cyprus played a regular, influential role in the Eastern Mediterranean economy, especially between the 4 th and 7 th Centuries AD. Cypriots were commercially astute businessmen producing both desirable original products and specialized imitative lines of table wares and transport containers designed to capitalize on the commercial success of currently circulating foreign goods. Roman Cyprus' leading products included copper, timber, ships, wheat, medicines, olive oil, wine, and various other foodstuffs. Comparative evidence suggests Roman Cyprus produced abundant oil on northern and central-southern coasts. Main wine and pottery areas lay in central-southern and southwestern regions. Mining products and ships represented western specialties; wheat dominated the central plain. Roman Cyprus possessed artificial and natural ports. Harborworks existed at Paphos and Salamis, as well as at secondary main ports including Soloi, Kourion, Lapethos, and Keryneia. Natural facilities are exemplified by the commercial network of local ports that ringed the island. To fully appreciate Roman Cyprus and its economy, ports and their hinterlands must be considered together as inseparable economic units.* *This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Adobe Photoshop.
Download or read book Imperial Cult and Imperial Representation in Roman Cyprus written by Takashi Fujii and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh. This book was released on 2013 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean, came under Roman domination during the late Republican Civil War. Due to its position outside of the political and strategic centres of the Empire, Roman Cyprus was something of a terra incognita among ancient historians. This book investigates communication between this "quiescent" province and the Roman emperor through the exploration of fascinating epigraphic evidence concerning the imperial cult and imperial representation on the island (dedications, statues, oaths, priests, calendars etc.). The central themes of the book are the religious status of the emperor embedded in the Cypriot religious milieu, political relationships between Cyprus and the Empire and their influences on the imperial cult performed on the island, and the part played by imperial representation in the life cycle of the Cypriots. The appendix catalogues the relevant inscriptions, with translations and other related information.
Download or read book A Cultural History of Late Roman Cyprus written by Georgios Deligiannakis and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Healing Grief written by Fabio Tutrone and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both our view of Seneca’s philosophical thought and our approach to the ancient consolatory genre have radically changed since the latest commentary on the Consolatio ad Marciam was written in 1981. The aim of this work is to offer a new book-length commentary on the earliest of Seneca’s extant writings, along with a revision of the Latin text and a reassessment of Seneca’s intellectual program, strategies, and context. A crucial document to penetrate Seneca’s discourse on the self in its embryonic stages, the Ad Marciam is here taken seriously as an engaging attempt to direct the persuasive power of literary models and rhetorical devices toward the fundamentally moral project of healing Marcia’s grief and correcting her cognitive distortions. Through close reading of the Latin text, this commentary shows that Seneca invariably adapts different traditions and voices – from Greek consolations to Plato’s dialogues, from the Roman discourse of gender and exemplarity to epic poetry – to a Stoic framework, so as to give his reader a lucid understanding of the limits of the self and the ineluctability of natural laws.
Download or read book Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses written by Laura Salah Nasrallah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how Ancient Christians both used curses and criticized them in ancient Mediterranean religion and society.
Download or read book Power and Identity in Roman Cyprus written by Ersin Hussein and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religious documents from Roman Cyprus written by Terence Bruce Mitford and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Houses of Roman Cyprus written by Benjamin Murray Ioset and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reconsidering Late Roman Cyprus written by Andrea Helen Rowe and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Cities in Cyprus from the Archaic to the Roman Period written by Henry Jay Watkin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Inscriptions from Roman Cyprus written by Terence Bruce Mitford and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyprus in Texts from Graeco Roman Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Cyprus in ancient literature and through contemporary evidence, discussing texts from Greco-Roman antiquity that examine the island, its myths, gods, heroes, and literary output, as well as the way it is perceived in ancient literature.
Download or read book Greek and Roman Cyprus written by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
