Soldier And Society In Roman Egypt
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Author |
: Richard Alston |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2002-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134664757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134664753 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt by : Richard Alston
The province of Egypt provides unique archaeological and documentary evidence for the study of the Roman army. In this fascinating social history Richard Alston examines the economic, cultural, social and legal aspects of a military career, illuminating the life and role of the individual soldier in the army. Soldier and Society in Roman Eygpt provides a complete reassessment of the impact of the Roman army on local societies, and convincingly challenges the orthodox picture. The soldiers are seen not as an isolated elite living in fear of the local populations, but as relatively well-integrated into local communities. The unsuspected scale of the army's involvement in these communities offers a new insight into both Roman rule in Egypt and Roman imperialism more generally.
Author |
: Michel Reddé |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 9 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1119738130 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis C-R Alston Richard, Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt, 1995 by : Michel Reddé
Author |
: Christelle Fischer-Bovet |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 475 |
Release |
: 2014-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107007758 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107007755 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt by : Christelle Fischer-Bovet
This book examines how the army developed as an engine of socio-economic and cultural integration in Egypt under Greco-Macedonian rule.
Author |
: Guy De la Bédoyère |
Publisher |
: Abacus |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0349143919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780349143910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gladius by : Guy De la Bédoyère
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state. Roman legionaries and auxiliaries came from across the Roman world and beyond. They served as tax collectors, policemen, surveyors, civil engineers and, if they survived, in retirement as civic worthies, craftsmen and politicians. Some even rose to become emperors. Gladius takes the reader right into the heart of what it meant to be a part of the Roman army through the words of Roman historians, and those of the men themselves through their religious dedications, tombstones, and even private letters and graffiti. Guy de la Bedoyere throws open a window on how the men, their wives and their children lived, from bleak frontier garrisons to guarding the emperor in Rome, enjoying a ringside seat to history fighting the emperors' wars, mutinying over pay, marching in triumphs, throwing their weight around in city streets, and enjoying esteem in honorable retirement.
Author |
: Roger S. Bagnall |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 742 |
Release |
: 2021-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108957120 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108957129 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roman Egypt by : Roger S. Bagnall
Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds, while its uniquely fertile lands helped to feed the imperial capitals at Rome and then Constantinople. The cultural and religious landscape of Egypt today owes much to developments during the Roman period, including in particular the forms taken by Egyptian Christianity. Moreover, we have an abundance of sources for its history during this time, especially because of the recovery of vast numbers of written texts giving an almost uniquely detailed picture of its society, economy, government, and culture. This book, the work of six historians and archaeologists from Egypt, the US, and the UK, provides students and a general audience with a readable new history of the period and includes many illustrations of art, archaeological sites, and documents, and quotations from primary sources.
Author |
: Sara Elise Phang |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9004121552 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004121553 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.-A.D. 235) by : Sara Elise Phang
Roman soldiers were forbidden to marry during service; many formed "de facto" families. This book analyzes the evidence for this ban; the social and legal history of the soldiers' families; and the marriage ban as policy and as cultural formation.
Author |
: Christopher J. Fuhrmann |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2012-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199737840 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199737843 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Policing the Roman Empire by : Christopher J. Fuhrmann
Drawing on a wide variety of source material from art archaeology, administrative documents, Egyptian papyri, laws Jewish and Christian religious texts and ancient narratives this book provides a comprehensive overview of Roman imperial policing practices.
Author |
: Christina Riggs |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 814 |
Release |
: 2012-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199571451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199571457 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt by : Christina Riggs
This handbook, arranged in seven thematic sections, is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research.
Author |
: Impact of Empire (Organització). Workshop |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 612 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004160446 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004160442 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Impact of the Roman Army (200 BC-AD 476) by : Impact of Empire (Organització). Workshop
This sixth volume of the network Impact of Empire offers a comprehensive reading on the economic, political, religious and cultural impact of Roman military forces on the regions that were dominated by the Roman Empire.
Author |
: Denise Eileen McCoskey |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2021-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780755697861 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0755697863 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race by : Denise Eileen McCoskey
How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person's physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one's skin lies at the foundation of racial variability today because it was used during the heyday of European exploration and colonialism to construct a hierarchy of civilizations and then justify slavery and other forms of economic exploitation. Assumptions about race thus have to take into account factors other than mere physiognomy. This is particularly true in relation to the classical world. In fifth century Athens, racial theory during the Persian Wars produced the categories 'Greek' and 'Barbarian', and set them in brutal opposition to one another: a process that could be as intense and destructive as 'black and 'white' in our own age. Ideas about race in antiquity were therefore completely distinct but as closely bound to political and historical contexts as those that came later. This provocative book boldly explores the complex matrices of race - and the differing interpretations of ancient and modern - across epic, tragedy and the novel. Ranging from Theocritus to Toni Morrison, and from Tacitus and Pliny to Bernal's seminal study Black Athena, this is a powerful and original new assessment.