The Middle East under Rome

The Middle East under Rome / Maurice Sartre ; translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings with Jeannine Routier-Pucci.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sartre, Maurice
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Middle East > History > To 622.
Online Access:Table of contents
Holy Cross Note:Contains a reproduction of: Mosaic of the Drinking Contest of Herakles and Dionysos, Antioch, 100-125 (p. 176). Art original: marble, limestone, and glass tesserae; 183.5 x 186.4 x 7.6 cm in Worcester Art Museum (accession number: 1933.36).
Uniform Title:D'Alexandre à Zénobie.
Table of Contents:
  • Hellenistic legacy
  • End of Seleucid Syria and the first Roman rule
  • From Augustus to Trajan: creating a province
  • Crises in Judaea from Herod to Bar Kokhba
  • From Trajan to the Severi: conquests and reorganizations
  • Civic life and urban development during the early empire
  • Rural life in the early empire
  • The urban economy in Roman Syria
  • Hellenization and indigenous cultures
  • Pagans, Jews, and Christians in Roman Syria in the second and third centuries
  • A time of trials.

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