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The Southern Levant during the first centuries of Roman rule (64 BCE-135 CE) - Interweaving Local Cultures (Hardcover)
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The Southern Levant during the first centuries of Roman rule (64 BCE-135 CE) - Interweaving Local Cultures (Hardcover)
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Starting from the issues of globalisation and recent studies about
the mechanisms of absorption of cultures into the Roman Empire,
this book focuses on the Near East, an area that has received much
less attention than the Western part of the Roman empire in the
context of the Romanisation debate. Cimadomo seeks to develop new
understandings of imperialism and colonialism, highlighting the
numerous and multiple cultural elements that existed in the eastern
provinces and raising many questions, such as the bilingualism of
ancient societies, the relationship between different cultures and
the difficulty of using modern terminologies to explain ancient
phenomena. The first focus lies on the area of Galilee and
collecting all the evidence for reconstructing the history of the
region. The theme of the ethnicity of the Galileans is very
complex, as even the literary evidence of the first centuries BC
and AD regarding Galilee doesn't specify anything about their
ethnic identities. The question of the Arabs, their origins and
ethnicity is also raised, with a particular focus on the Itureans
and the Nabateans. Alongside a complete analysis of the territories
they occupied, Cimadomo explores the different artefacts: from the
sculptures to the pottery, from the temples to the coins, a picture
emerges of an area influenced by different cultures where the
inhabitants were able to create their own culture, different from
all other parts of the Roman empire. A chapter is devoted to the
Decapolis, paying attention to the literary and architectural
evidences of each city and their urban development in a
little-studied period. An important feature that clearly emerges is
the religious nature of the earlier settlements: most of them were
probably sanctuaries during the Hellenistic time, and developed
only after the coming of the Romans. It was during this development
that theatres took a principal role, seemingly the first structures
built in every city under Roman rule. It becomes clear that the
problems of homogenization and differentiation were present even in
the past. Local inhabitants challenged their identity, adapting and
modifying foreign impulses, creating new societies and new ways of
being Roman.
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