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Discovering Rome's Eastern Frontier

Author : Timothy Bruce Mitford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192655353
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Rome's Eastern Frontier written by Timothy Bruce Mitford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire extended from northern Syria to the western Caucasus, across a remote and desolate region 800 miles from the Aegean. It followed the great Euphrates valley to penetrate the harsh mountains of Armenia Minor and south of the Black Sea, along the Pontic coast to the finally reach the foothills of the Caucasus. Though vast, this terrain has long remained one of the great gaps in our knowledge of the ancient world, barely visited and effectively unknown — until now. Here, Timothy Bruce Mitford offers an account of half a century of research and exploration over sensitive territory, in challenging conditions, to discover the material remains of Rome's last unexplored frontier. The geographical framework introduces frontier installations as they occur: fortresses and forts, roads, bridges, signalling stations, and navigation of the Euphrates. The journey is enriched with observations of consuls and travellers, memories of Turkish and Kurdish villagers, and notes and photographs of a way of life little changed since antiquity. The process of discovery was mainly on foot; staying in villages with local guides, following ancient tracks, and conversing with great numbers of people - provincial and district governors, village elders and teachers, police and jandarma, farmers and shepherds, and everyone in between. This came with its perils and pleasures; encounters with treasure hunters and apparent bandits, tales of saints and caravans, arrests and death threats, bears and wild boars, rafts and fishing, earthquakes, all amid the tumultuous events of the second half of the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with large-scale maps, photographs, and sketches, this is an account of travel and discovery, set against a background of a disappearing world encountered in the long process of academic exploration.

Discovering Rome's Eastern Frontier

Author : Timothy Bruce Mitford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192843427
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Rome's Eastern Frontier written by Timothy Bruce Mitford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire extended from northern Syria to the western Caucasus, across a remote and desolate region 800 miles from the Aegean. It followed the great Euphrates valley to penetrate the harsh mountains of Armenia Minor and south of the Black Sea, along the Pontic coast to the finally reach the foothills of the Caucasus. Though vast, this terrain has long remained one of the great gaps in our knowledge of the ancient world, barely visited and effectively unknown -- until now. Here, Timothy Bruce Mitford offers an account of half a century of research and exploration over sensitive territory, in challenging conditions, to discover the material remains of Rome's last unexplored frontier. The geographical framework introduces frontier installations as they occur: fortresses and forts, roads, bridges, signalling stations, and navigation of the Euphrates. The journey is enriched with observations of consuls and travellers, memories of Turkish and Kurdish villagers, and notes and photographs of a way of life little changed since antiquity. The process of discovery was mainly on foot; staying in villages with local guides, following ancient tracks, and conversing with great numbers of people - provincial and district governors, village elders and teachers, police and jandarma, farmers and shepherds, and everyone in between. This came with its perils and pleasures; encounters with treasure hunters and apparent bandits, tales of saints and caravans, arrests and death threats, bears and wild boars, rafts and fishing, earthquakes, all amid the tumultuous events of the second half of the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with large-scale maps, photographs, and sketches, this is an account of travel and discovery, set against a background of a disappearing world encountered in the long process of academic exploration.

Romes Desert Frontiers

Author : David Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135782695
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Romes Desert Frontiers written by David Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 100 archaeological sites lying within the desert area of Rome's eastern frontier are examined with accompanying maps, plans and air photographs. Designed to provide an overview of Roman military works in the Middle East, this work is intended to appeal to archaeologists and military historians.

East of Asia Minor

Author : Timothy Bruce Mitford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198725176
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book East of Asia Minor written by Timothy Bruce Mitford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The north-eastern frontier of the Roman Empire - one of the great gaps in modern knowledge of the ancient world - has long eluded research. It has defied systematic exploration and been insulated against all but passing survey by wars, instability, political sensitivities, language, and the region's wild, remote mountains, mostly accessible only on horseback or on foot. Its path lay across eastern Turkey, following the Euphrates valley northwards from Syria, through gorges and across great ranges, and passing over the Pontic Alps to reach the further shores of the Black Sea. Vespasian established Rome's frontier against Armenia half a century before Hadrian's Wall. Five times as long, and climbing seven times as high, it was garrisoned ultimately by four legions and a large auxiliary army, stationed in intermediate forts linked by military roads. The two volumes of East of Asia Minor: Rome's Hidden Frontier - based on research, field work conducted largely on foot, and new discoveries - document the topography, monuments, inscriptions, and sighted coins of the frontier, looking in detail at strategic roads, bridges, forts, watch and signalling systems, and navigation of the Euphrates itself. Study of the terrain provides a foundation for interpreting the literary and epigraphic evidence for the frontier and its garrisons. Military activity, which extended to the Caucasus and the Caspian, is placed in the context of climate, geography, and inter-regional trade routes. 28 colour maps and over 350 photographs, plans, and travellers' sketches not only document the history of eastern Turkey as a frontier region of the Roman empire, but also reveal an ancient way of life, still preserved during the 1960s and 1970s, but now almost obliterated by the developments of the modern world.

At Empire's Edge

Author : Robert B. Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300129513
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book At Empire's Edge written by Robert B. Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire in 30 BC after the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, its vast and mysterious frontier lands had an important impact on the commerce, politics and culture of the empire. This account - part history and part gazetteer -focuses on Rome's Egyptian frontier, describing the ancient fortresses, temples, settlements, quarries and aqueducts scattered throughout the region and conveying a sense of what life was like for its inhabitants. Robert Jackson has journeyed, by jeep and on foot, to virtually every known Roman site in the area, from Siwa Oasis, 45 kilometers from the modern Libyan border, to the Sudan. Drawing on both archaeological and historical information, he discusses these sites, explaining how Rome extracted exotic stone and precious metals from the mountains of the Eastern Desert, channelled the wealth of India and East Africa through the desert via ports on the Red Sea, constructed and manned fortresses in the distant oases of the Western Desert, and facilitated the expansion of agricultural communities in the desert that eventually experienced the earliest large-scale conversions to Christianity in Egypt. Illustrated with many photographs, the volume should be useful to archaeologists, classicists, and travellers to the region.

Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers

Author : Daniëlle Slootjes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004326758
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers written by Daniëlle Slootjes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers examines interactions between those within and those beyond the boundaries of Rome, with an eye to the question of contested identities and identity formations.

The Eastern frontier of the Roman Empire : proceedings of a colloquium held at Ankara in September 1988. 1 (1989)

Author : David H. French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Eastern frontier of the Roman Empire : proceedings of a colloquium held at Ankara in September 1988. 1 (1989) written by David H. French and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rome and its Frontiers

Author : C R Whittaker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134384122
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Rome and its Frontiers written by C R Whittaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the Romans have anything to teach us about the way that they saw the world, and the way they ran their empire? How did they deal with questions of frontiers and migration, so often in the news today? This collection of ten important essays by C. R. Whittaker, engages with debates and controversies about the Roman frontiers and the concept of empire. Truly global in its focus, the book examines the social, political and cultural implications of the Roman frontiers in Africa, India, Britain, Europe, Asia and the Far East, and provides a comprehensive account of their significance.

Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity

Author : Beate Dignas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052184925X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity written by Beate Dignas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history, with sourcebook, of the turbulent relations between Rome and the Sasanian Empire.

The Wall

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857904817
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Wall written by Alistair Moffat and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. Many of its forts are as large as Britain's most formidable medieval castles, and the wide ditch dug to the south of the Wall, the vallum, is larger than any surviving prehistoric earthwork. Built in a ten-year period by more than 30,000 soldiers and labourers at the behest of an extraordinary emperor, the Wall consisted of more than 24 million stones, giving it a mass greater than all the Egyptian pyramids put together. At least a million people visit Hadrian's Wall each year and it has been designated a World Heritage Site. In this book, based on literary and historical sources as well as the latest archaeological research, Alistair Moffat considers who built the Wall, how it was built, why it was built and how it affected the native peoples who lived in its mighty shadow. The result is a unique and fascinating insight into one of the Wonders of the Ancient World.

Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier

Author : Alan K. Bowman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415920248
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier written by Alan K. Bowman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rome and the Distant East

Author : Raoul McLaughlin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847252354
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Rome and the Distant East written by Raoul McLaughlin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the complex system of trade exchanges and commerce that profoundly changed Roman society.

Frontiers of the Roman Empire: the Eastern Frontiers

Author : David J. Breeze
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781803272641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of the Roman Empire: the Eastern Frontiers written by David J. Breeze and published by Archaeopress Archaeology. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman eastern frontier stretched from the north-east shore of the Black Sea to the Red Sea. It faced Rome's formidable foe, the kingdom of Parthia, and its successor, Sasanian Persia. Rome's bulwark in antiquity was the area known as Syria or the Levant, roughly modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine. To the south lay the Nabataean kingdom, annexed by Rome in 106 and formed into the province of Arabia. To the north, the Cappadocian frontier was laid out in one of the most inaccessible and remote parts of Eurasia facing extremes of climate and topography, amid a patchwork of client kingdoms. This hidden and fascinating frontier in Turkey, whose bases mostly lie under reservoirs, is the major omission from this volume and it is hoped that a more in-depth account might appear in due course. The Caucasian forts along the edge of the Black Sea are, however, part of this volume; this is perhaps Rome's least known frontier archaeologically but the subject of a unique account by Arrian when governor of Cappadocia.

Rome's Wars in Parthia

Author : Rose Mary Sheldon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780853039815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Rome's Wars in Parthia written by Rose Mary Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rome's foreign policy in the East has been the subject of many books, but until now there has been no detailed study of the individual wars Rome fought against Parthia from the military perspective. This book details Rome's military encounters with Parthia from the bumbling campaign of Crassus to the fall of the Parthian regime. America's recent war in Iraq has shown that invading Mesopotamia without proper intelligence is a bad idea, but it is not a new idea. Time after time the Romans stormed into the area between the Tigris and Euphrates thinking 'shock and awe' was all they needed to prevail. What they discovered was that it takes more than just overrunning an empire to defeat it. Exhausting the Parthian regime and furthering its collapse only brought forward a new enemy, the Persians, who were much stronger and more aggressive than the Parthians ever were. We may legitimately ask, therefore, whether Rome's aggressive policy against Parthia made Rome's eastern frontier less secure." "Did the Romans attack the Parthians in self-defence, or because they simply would not tolerate the co-existence of an equal power on their border? Its size alone made the Parthian Empire formidable. This certainly counterbalanced Rome's hegemony in the West. What did the Romans gain by attacking Parthia? This book will give a historical perspective on what is still a strikingly modern problem when waging war in the Middle East." --Book Jacket.

Roman Palmyra

Author : Andrew M. Smith II
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199861102
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Roman Palmyra written by Andrew M. Smith II and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Roman Palmyra offers an examination of how the Palmyrenes constructed and maintained a unique identity, individually and collectively, amid progressive communal changes.

Romans and Barbarians

Author : Derek Williams
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250083818
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Romans and Barbarians written by Derek Williams and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A vivid picture of the clash between ancient civilization and prehistoric cultures." - Kirkus Reviews From 27 B.C. to A.D. 117, the Roman dreams of boundless empire began to falter. The very size of their conquests made them hard to manage, and the caesars also had to accept the scale and intractability of the problems posed by the barbarians. The period covered by the book is one of great change and the opening of a new era. For the once mighty Romans this was a time when power was passing; for the barbarians it was the late Iron Age: a time of transition when internal stresses and fear of Roman aggression were creating dangerous shifts in the tribal equilibrium. Derek Williams's Romans and Barbarians sees the clash of cultures from the standpoint of four individuals whose curious fate it was to venture or be sent beyond the outer watchtowers of the Roman empire. They bore witness from the grassy steppe of Europe's southeastern corner from across the grump Carpathians, towering beyond the Danube; from the fearsome German forest; and from beyond the Firth of Forth in the wilderness of northernmost Britain. Each portrait reveals different aspects of the Sarmatian, German, and Celtic peoples facing the empire's European frontiers. Together these four viewpoints provide a rich portrait of the classical and Iron Age worlds, mutually uncomprehending yet strangely unable to do without each other. The outcome is a skein of violence, tragedy, misadventure, and courage, offering a preview of the cruel but creative forces from whose fusion modern Europe was eventually to emerge.

Vindolanda

Author : Robin Birley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445612062
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Vindolanda written by Robin Birley and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful site the Romans called Vindolanda lies in south-west Northumberland, in the district of Tynedale, more or less half way between the North Sea east of Newcastle and the Irish Sea to the west of Carlisle. It is just within the boundary of the Northumberland National Park, and is a part of the World Heritage Site of Hadrian's Wall.