Author : Ted Kaizer
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
ISBN 13 : 9783515097154
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (971 download)
Book Synopsis Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East by : Ted Kaizer
Download or read book Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East written by Ted Kaizer and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies is devoted to the multifarious relations that the Roman empire maintained with the kings and princes of the Near Eastern lands. Building on an outlook on their royal and princely realms from both the Roman and the Parthian point of view, individual papers focus on the specifics of different areas and themes through a set of updated regional studies. Themes include Roman citizenship, the coinage issued by the 'client kings', royal religious ideology, and the reflection on friendly relations between empire and kingdoms in poetry. Five case-studies of individual regions, including late-Ptolemaic Egypt, post-Mithridatic Pontus, Commagene, Emesa, and Edessa, show how the available evidence creates different impressions of their relations with Rome. The absence of royalty at Palmyra is viewed as a variation to 'client kingship', and the world of the nomadic confederations as an alternative.