Antioch in Syria - Kristina M. Neumann

Antioch in Syria

A History from Coins (300 BCE–450 CE)
Buch | Hardcover
376 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83714-9 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
Challenging traditional scholarship and methodologies, this volume employs digital technologies to explore the abundant record of coins minted in Antioch in Syria. The result is a new political, financial, and social history of the ancient city essential for specialists of ancient history and numismatics while remaining accessible to students.
Antioch in Syria critically reassesses this ancient city from its Seleucid foundation into Late Antiquity. Although Antioch's prominence is famous, Kristina M. Neumann newly exposes the gradations of imperial power and local agency mediated within its walls through a comprehensive study of the coins minted there and excavated throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. Patterns revealed through digital mapping and Exploratory Data Analysis serve as a significant index of spatial politics and the policies of the different authorities making use of the city. Evaluating the coins against other historical material reveals that Antioch's status was not fixed, nor the people passive pawns for external powers. Instead, as imperial governments capitalised upon Antioch's location and amenities, the citizens developed in their own distinct identities and agency. Antioch of the Antiochians must therefore be elevated from traditional narratives and static characterisations, being studied and celebrated for the dynamic polis it was.

KRISTINA M. NEUMANN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Houston and co-director of The SYRIOS Project, a web-based, interactive exhibit inviting the public into the history of ancient Syria (https://syrios.uh.edu/). She has worked with archaeological projects in Rome, Pompeii, and Israel.

List of figures; Chronology of rulers; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Counting change; 2. Imperial beginnings (300–129 bce); 3. Imperial transitions (129–31 bce); 4. Provincial negotiations (31 bce-192 ce); 5. Imperial creations (192–284 ce); 6. Imperial city (284–450 ce); Conclusion; Appendix 1 – S methodology for digitally analyzing coin finds; Appendix 2 – list of excavation reports; Appendix 3 – coin hoards with antioch coins; Bibliography; Index.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 27 Tables, black and white; 53 Maps; 70 Halftones, black and white; 34 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 175 x 250 mm
Gewicht 910 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-83714-X / 110883714X
ISBN-13 978-1-108-83714-9 / 9781108837149
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