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Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World reveals
the significance and interconnectedness of early civilizations
pathways. This international collection of readings providing a
description and comparative analysis of several sophisticated
systems of transport and communication across pre-modern cultures.
* Offers a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of
overland transport and communication networks across pre-modern
cultures * Addresses the burgeoning interest in connectivity and
globalization in ancient history, archaeology, anthropology, and
recent work in network analysis * Explores the societal, cultural,
and religious implications of various transportation networks
around the globe * Includes contributions from an international
team of scholars with expertise on pre-modern India, China, Japan,
the Americas, North Africa, Europe, and the Near East * Structured
to encourage comparative thinking across case studies
Empires, the largest political systems of the ancient and early
modern world, powerfully transformed the lives of people within and
even beyond their frontiers in ways quite different from other,
non-imperial societies. Appearing in all parts of the globe, and in
many different epochs, empires invite comparative analysis - yet
few attempts have been made to place imperial systems within such a
framework. This book brings together studies by distinguished
scholars from diverse academic traditions, including anthropology,
archaeology, history and classics. The empires discussed include
case studies from Central and South America, the Mediterranean,
Europe, the Near East, South East Asia and China, and range in time
from the first millennium BC to the early modern era. The book
organises these detailed studies into five thematic sections:
sources, approaches and definitions; empires in a wider world;
imperial integration and imperial subjects; imperial ideologies;
and the afterlife of empires.
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
Social or collective memory has recently become a much debated subject in academic disciplines and in the popular media. People in antiquity surely possessed similar shared memories, but except for the limited accounts of elite authors--they are notoriously difficult to recover. This book explores how material culture, in particular the evidence of landscape and of monuments, can reveal commemorative practices and collective amnesias in past societies. Three case studies are considered--Greece in the early Roman period, Hellenistic and Roman Crete, and Messenia from Archaic to Hellenistic times.
Social or collective memory has recently become a much debated subject in academic disciplines and in the popular media. People in antiquity surely possessed similar shared memories, but except for the limited accounts of elite authors--they are notoriously difficult to recover. This book explores how material culture, in particular the evidence of landscape and of monuments, can reveal commemorative practices and collective amnesias in past societies. Three case studies are considered--Greece in the early Roman period, Hellenistic and Roman Crete, and Messenia from Archaic to Hellenistic times.
This book explores the consequences of the Roman conquest of Greece. Social and economic developments during the period 200 BC to AD 200 are traced through a combination of archaeological and historical sources. The particular emphasis of this study lies in the use of archaeological surface survey data, a form of evidence only recently available for the study of the ancient world, which permits for the first time a detailed examination of subjects such as conditions in the countryside and demographic change.
No one disputes the centrality of cult activity in the lives of
individuals and communities in ancient Greece. The significance of
where people worshipped their gods has been far less acknowledged.
In 1884 Francois de Polignac argued that the placing of cult
centres played a major part in establishing the concept of the
city-state in archaic Greece. The essays in this collection, headed
by that of de Polignac himself in which he re-assesses his
position, critically examine the social and political importance of
sanctuary placement, not only by re-examining the case of the
archaic Greece discussed by de Polignac, but by extending analysis
both back to Mycenaean times and onwards to Greece under Roman
occupation. These essays reveal something of the complexity of
relations between religion and politics in ancient Greece,
demonstrating how vital factors such as tradition, gender
relations, and cult identity were in creating and maintaining the
religious mapping of the Greek countryside.
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