Settlement and Soldiers in the Roman Near East
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ancient Syria research
Armed Forces Colonial forces
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frontier studies
History
Land settlement
Land settlement Syria History To 1500
Middle East
Middle East History To 622
Militar
military settlements
Moyen-Orient Histoire Jusqu'a 622
Naher Osten
provincial administration
Roman archaeology
Roman army social impact
Romans
Romans Syria
Rome (Empire)
Rome Army Colonial forces
Romerzeit
Siedlung
Syria
To 1500
urbanisation in antiquity
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- ISBN 9781409464365
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 169 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Roman Near East has been a source of fascination and exasperation - an immense area, a rich archaeological heritage as well as documents in several local languages, a region with a great depth of urbanisation and development ... yet relatively neglected by modern researchers and difficult to work on and in. Local archaeologists are often under-funded and the Roman period viewed as an earlier phase of western colonialism. Happily, the immense surge in archaeological and historical research on the Roman period everywhere has included the Roman Near East and there have been significant academic developments. This collection of studies on the Roman Near East represents Professor Kennedy’s academic assessment of the region, which began with his doctoral thesis on the contribution of Syria to the Roman army. Although the thesis was never published, several articles owe their genesis to work done then or soon after and are included here (VI, VII, IX, XII). Initial visits to military sites in Syria and Jordan swiftly brought out the presence in many cases of associated civil settlements and - though often now gone, the traces of ancient field systems. Hence, the two prominent sub-themes in this collection are the Roman military and various aspects of society and settlement - settlement types, farming, logistical underpinning and communications.
David L. Kennedy is Winthrop Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia, Australia.
