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Byzantium and the Bosporus - A Historical Study, from the Seventh Century BC until the Foundation of Constantinople (Hardcover)
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Byzantium and the Bosporus - A Historical Study, from the Seventh Century BC until the Foundation of Constantinople (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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In ad 330 the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of
the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of
Byzantium. Its later history is well known, yet comparatively
little is known about the city before it became Constantinople and
then Istanbul. Although it was just a minor Greek polis located on
the northern fringes of Hellenic culture, surrounded by hostile
Thracian tribes and denigrated by one ancient wit as the 'armpit of
Greece', Byzantium did nevertheless possess one unique advantage -
control of the Bosporus strait. This highly strategic waterway
links the Aegean to the Black Sea, thereby conferring on the city
the ability to tax maritime traffic passing between the two.
Byzantium and the Bosporus is a historical study of the city of
Byzantium and its society, epigraphy, culture, and economy, which
seeks to establish the significance of its geographical
circumstances and in particular its relationship with the Bosporus
strait. Examining the history of the region through this lens
reveals how over almost a millennium it came to shape many aspects
of the lives of its inhabitants, illuminating not only the nature
of economic exploitation and the attitudes of ancient imperialism,
but also local industries and resources and the genesis of
communities' local identities. Drawing extensively on Dionysius of
Byzantium's Anaplous Bosporou, an ancient account of the journey up
the Bosporus, and on local inscriptions, what emerges is a
meditation on regional particularism which reveals the pervasive
influence which the waterway had on the city of Byzantium and its
local communities, and which illustrates how the history of this
region cannot be understood in isolation from its geographical
context. This volume will be of interest to all those interested in
classical history more broadly and to Byzantinists seeking to
explore the history of the city before it became Constantinople.
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