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Look Inside Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World

Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World
Selected Papers

Author: Benjamin Isaac, Tel-Aviv University

Date Published: August 2017
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781107135895

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Benjamin Isaac is one of the most distinguished historians of the ancient world, with a number of landmark monographs to his name. This volume collects most of his published articles and book chapters of the last two decades, many of which are not easy to access, and republishes them for the first time along with some brand new chapters. The focus is on Roman concepts of state and empire and mechanisms of control and integration. Isaac also discusses ethnic and cultural relationships in the Roman Empire and the limits of tolerance and integration, as well as attitudes to foreigners and minorities, including Jews. The book will appeal to scholars and students of ancient, imperial, and military history, as well as to those interested in the ancient history of problems which still resonate in today's societies.
- Provides new and unconventional perspectives on the nature of Roman imperial rule, ancient warfare, and attitudes towards Jews and other minorities in the Roman world
- Demonstrates how modern issues of power conflicts and religious and racist strife can be understood through comparison with ancient precedents
- Unites some recent published papers with several entirely new chapters to provide readers with an up-to-date and comprehensive view of Isaac's work
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Product details
- Date Published: August 2017
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107135895
- length: 382 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.66kg
- contains: 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Roma Aeterna
2. Roman victory displayed: symbols, allegories, and personificiations?
3. Army and violence
4. Innovation and war
5. Core-periphery notions
6. Names: ethnic, geographic and administrative
7. Attitudes towards provincial intellectuals in the Roman Empire
8. Proto-racism in Graeco-Roman antiquity
9. The barbarian in Greek and Roman literature
10. Romans and nomads in the fourth century
11. A multi-cultural Mediterranean?
12. Latin in cities of the Roman Near East
13. Ancient antisemitism
14. Roman religious policy and the Bar Kokhba war
15. Jews, Christians and others in Palestine: the evidence from Eusebius
16. Roman organization in the Arabah in the fourth century AD
17. Hatra against Rome and Persia: from success to destruction.
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Benjamin Isaac, Tel-Aviv University
Benjamin Isaac is Lessing Professor of Ancient History Emeritus in the Department of Classics at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Limits of Empire: the Roman Army in the East (1990) and The Origins of Racism in Classical Antiquity (2004). He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the American Philosophical Society, as well as being an Israel Prize Laureate.