ISBN:
0674016831 (alk. paper)
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 665 p. :
,
ill. ;
,
24 cm.
Year of publication:
2005
Uniform Title:
D'Alexandre à Zénobie.
DDC:
939/.4
Keywords:
etorient
Abstract:
The Roman conquest of the Middle East not only raises questions from the point of the 'colonial phenomenon', as Sartre terms it, but also from an indigenous perspective. This detailed study of the Middle East begins with the legacy of the Hellenistic period and the state of the area we now know as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, on the eve of Roman intervention. More than a narrative history of events and a discussion of how the Romans conquered, organised and governed the Middle East, Maurice Sartre explores issues of civic and rural life, urban development, the urban economy, the nature of indigenous cultures and lives of Jews, pagans and Christians during the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
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