At Empire's Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier - Couverture rigide

Jackson, Robert B.

 
9780300088564: At Empire's Edge: Exploring Rome's Egyptian Frontier
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300088566 ISBN 13 : 9780300088564
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

When Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire in 30 B.C. after the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, its vast and mysterious frontier lands had an important impact on the commerce, politics, and culture of the empire. This engrossing book--part history and part gazetteer--focuses on Rome's Egyptian frontier, describing the ancient fortresses, temples, settlements, quarries, and aqueducts scattered throughout the region and conveying a vivid sense of what life was like for its inhabitants.

Robert B. Jackson has journeyed, by jeep and on foot, to virtually every known Roman site in the area, from Siwa Oasis, forty-five kilometers from the modern Libyan border, to the Sudan. Drawing on both archaeological and historical information, he discusses these sites, explaining how Rome extracted exotic stone and precious metals from the mountains of the Eastern Desert, channeled the wealth of India and East Africa through the desert via ports on the Red Sea, constructed and manned fortresses in the distant oases of the Western Desert, and facilitated the expansion of agricultural communities in the desert that eventually experienced the earliest large-scale conversions to Christianity in Egypt. Elegantly written and illustrated with many handsome photographs, the book will be a treasured resource for archaeologists, classicists, and travelers to the region.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robert B. Jackson is chair of the department of history at The American International School of Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300088566
ISBN 13 
9780300088564
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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