East of Asia Minor
Title | East of Asia Minor PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Bruce Mitford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780198725176 |
The north-eastern frontier of the Roman Empire - one of the great gaps in modern knowledge of the ancient world - has long eluded research. It has defied systematic exploration and been insulated against all but passing survey by wars, instability, political sensitivities, language, and the region's wild, remote mountains, mostly accessible only on horseback or on foot. Its path lay across eastern Turkey, following the Euphrates valley northwards from Syria, through gorges and across great ranges, and passing over the Pontic Alps to reach the further shores of the Black Sea. Vespasian established Rome's frontier against Armenia half a century before Hadrian's Wall. Five times as long, and climbing seven times as high, it was garrisoned ultimately by four legions and a large auxiliary army, stationed in intermediate forts linked by military roads. The two volumes of East of Asia Minor: Rome's Hidden Frontier - based on research, field work conducted largely on foot, and new discoveries - document the topography, monuments, inscriptions, and sighted coins of the frontier, looking in detail at strategic roads, bridges, forts, watch and signalling systems, and navigation of the Euphrates itself. Study of the terrain provides a foundation for interpreting the literary and epigraphic evidence for the frontier and its garrisons. Military activity, which extended to the Caucasus and the Caspian, is placed in the context of climate, geography, and inter-regional trade routes. 28 colour maps and over 350 photographs, plans, and travellers' sketches not only document the history of eastern Turkey as a frontier region of the Roman empire, but also reveal an ancient way of life, still preserved during the 1960s and 1970s, but now almost obliterated by the developments of the modern world.
In the Land of a Thousand Gods
Title | In the Land of a Thousand Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Marek |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 820 |
Release | 2021-07-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691233659 |
A monumental history of Asia Minor from the Stone Age to the Roman Empire In this critically acclaimed book, Christian Marek masterfully provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. Blending rich narrative with in-depth analyses, In the Land of a Thousand Gods shows Asia Minor’s shifting orientation between East and West and its role as both a melting pot of nations and a bridge for cultural transmission. Marek employs ancient sources to illuminate civic institutions, urban and rural society, agriculture, trade and money, the influential Greek writers of the Second Sophistic, the notoriously bloody exhibitions of the gladiatorial arena, and more. He draws on the latest research—in fields ranging from demography and economics to architecture and religion—to describe how Asia Minor became a center of culture and wealth in the Roman Empire. A breathtaking work of scholarship, In the Land of a Thousand Gods will become the standard reference book on the subject in English.
The Historical Geography of Asia Minor
Title | The Historical Geography of Asia Minor PDF eBook |
Author | Sir William Mitchell Ramsay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | Turkey |
ISBN |
Children of Achilles
Title | Children of Achilles PDF eBook |
Author | John Freely |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2009-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857736302 |
Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. "Children of Achilles" tells the epic and ultimately tragic story of the Greek presence in Anatolia, beginning with the Trojan War and culminating in 1923 with the devastating population exchange that followed the Turkish War of Independence. The once magnificent, now ruined, cities that cluster along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey are reminders of a civilization that produced the first Hellenic enlightenment, giving birth to Homer, Herodotus and the first philosophers of nature. For more three millennia the Anatolian Greeks preserved their identity and culture as the tides of history washed over them, enduring conflicts that historians since Herodotus have seen as an unending clash of civilizations between East and West. Today, the memory of the Greek diaspora from Asia Minor lives on in the music of rebetika, the threnodies known as amanadas, and the poetry of Seferis, and even now the descendants of those exiles speak with nostalgia of 'i kath'imas Anatoli' - our own Anatolia, their lost homeland. This, told for the first time, is their story, from glorious beginnings to a bitter end, a story that continues to echo through the ages and across continents.
Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia
Title | Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia PDF eBook |
Author | William John Hamilton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 598 |
Release | 1842 |
Genre | Armenia |
ISBN |
A Ride Through Asia Minor and Armenia
Title | A Ride Through Asia Minor and Armenia PDF eBook |
Author | Henry C. Barkley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Armenia |
ISBN |
Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor
Title | Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Fanshawe Tozer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | Armenia |
ISBN |