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Roman Near East

The Early Roman Empire in the East
edited by Susan Alcock
A group of essays that trace the development of Roman influence in the eastern parts of the empire. Contents include: Urbanization (Greg Woolf); Roman colonies in the province of Achaia (A Rizakis); Syrian desert (M Gawlikowski); The Syrian countryside (G Tate); Jewish rural settlement (Y Hirschfield); Roman relations with the Persicus sinus (D T Potts); The Imperial image (C B Rose); The ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.00

The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua The Stylite
translated and introduced by Frank R Trombley and John W Watt
A new translation and commentary of the `Historical Narrative of the Period of Distress which occurred in Edessa, Amid and all Mesopotamia'. The history provides a richly detailed first-hand account of life in an East Roman city between AD 494 and 506, a period which saw war with Persia, a plague of locusts, famine and disease. The text is supported by a lengthy introduction and a comprehensive bibliography. 176p, 5 maps (Translated Texts for ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £15.00, Our Price GB £4.95

Belkis/Zeugma, Halfeti, Rumkale: A Last Look at History
by N Basgelen and R Ergec
With the construction of the Birecik Dam underway in 1996, many important sites and finds were destroyed, including a Roman legion camp, its bath complex and an Early Bronze Age cemetery. This book reports on what evidence has been salvaged, concentrating especially on the twin Roman villas of Zeugma on the west bank of the Euphrates and the city of Apameia on the east bank. These sites formed major Roman cities in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00

Aspects of the Roman East, Volume II
edited by Malcolm Choat and Peter Edwell
This collection of essays in honour of Fergus Millar reflect his interest in the eastern provinces of the Empire and particularly on the frontier itself. 3 of the essays focus on Dura Europos a Roman outpost on the middle Euphrates and the consequences, cultural and political of Roman colonialism. 230p (Brepols 2007)
Price GB £50.00

Tragedy, Authority and Trickery: The Poetics of Embedded Letters in Josephus
by Ryan S. Olson
Arguing for the importance of the first-century historian Josephus to the study of classical and Hellenistic literature, Ryan Olson investigates letters in Josephus texts. He explores the use of the embedded letter in Josephus, and the influence of earlier Greek and Jewish texts and letters on his work. He concludes that letters, written in a highly developed Greek literary style, are used by Josephus as a means of identifying the worth of Jewish ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.95

Zenobia of Palmyra: History, Myth and the Neo-Classical Imagination
by Rex Winsbury
The author describes this book as a "political biography wrapped inside an artistic critique folded inside a study of the modern 'reception' of classical heroines". Essentially it is a rather stylish thematic study of the politics of Zenobia's reign, and how our perceptions of the third century Queen of Palmyra have been moulded by her afterlife in art literature and popular culture. Rex Winsbury asks what we can actually know of Zenobia's aims ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.99

Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom
edited by Jakob Munk Hojte
Mithridates VI Eupator, the last king of Pontos, was undoubtedly one of the most prominent figures in the late Hellenistic period. Throughout his long reign (120-63 BC), the political and cultural landscape of Asia Minor and the Black Sea area was reshaped along new lines. The authors present new archaeological research and new interpretations of various aspects of Pontic society, its contacts with the Greek world and its eastern neighbours and ...
Hardback. Price GB £38.00

Archaeology of the Bronze Age, Hellenistic, and Roman Remains at an Ancient Town on the Euphrates River: Excavations at Tell Es-Sweyhat, Syria Volume 2
by Thomas A Holland
The present publication is the second and concluding final report of T. A. Holland's expedition dealing with the archaeological finds from the site of Tell es-Sweyhat in Syria; the first report by T. J. Wilkinson deals with the settlement and land use around Sweyhat and in the upper Lake Tabqa area in north central Syria. This large two volume set (text and plates) represents the final publication of the archaeological excavations conducted at ...
Hardback. Price GB £125.00

Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor
edited by Stephen Mitchell and Constantina Katsari
Asia Minor under Rome was one of the wealthiest and most developed parts of the Empire, but there have been few modern studies of its economics. The twelve papers in this book, by an international team of scholars, work from literary texts, inscriptions, coinage and archaeology. They study the direct impact of Roman rule; the organisation of large agricultural estates; changing patterns of olive production; threats to rural prosperity from pests ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

Studies in the Ancient History of Northern Iraq
by David Oates
This is a facsimile reprint of the trail-blazing book by David Oates, originally published by the British Academy in 1968 and out-of-print for too long. It is primarily the report of his survey and excavation of sites in northern Iraq between 1954 and 1958, but it is at the same time a memorial to the great explorer, Sir Aurel Stein, whose pioneer fieldwork on the Roman frontiers in Iraq in 1938-39 provided the initial stimulus. 176p, b/w ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00