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Record Nr.

UNINA9910555294703321

Autore

Hitchner R. Bruce

Titolo

A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2021

©2022

ISBN

9781119072072

9781119071754

9781444350012

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (494 pages)

Collana

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser.

Disciplina

939/.7

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- North Africa Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I Setting the Stage -- 1 The Historiography of North Africa in Antiquity: An Overview -- 2 Archaeology -- 3 The Environment of North Africa -- Part II Africa in the First Millennium BCE -- 4 Libyan Culture and Society -- 5 Beyond Barbarians: The Garamantes of the Libyan Sahara -- 6 Punic Carthage -- 7 Africa under the Roman Republic -- Part III The Roman Period (146 BCE-439 CE) -- 8 African Rome. The City of Carthage from its Roman (Re-)foundation to the End of the Byzantine Period -- 9 Roman Imperial Administration -- 10 The Army -- 11 Roman North African Urbanism -- 12 Rural Settlement, Land Use, and Economy -- 13 The African Economy: The Ceramic Evidence -- 14 Prose Literature -- 15 Architecture and Art -- 16 Transforming Religion under the Roman Empire: The Case of Africa -- 17 Society and Culture in Late Roman Africa -- 18 The Mauri in Late Antiquity -- 19 Imperial and Late Latin Poetry from North Africa -- 20 Christian North Africa in Antiquity -- Part IV From the Vandal Kingdom to the Arab Conquest (439-711 CE) -- 21 The Vandals -- 22 The Byzantine Period -- 23 Late Roman, Vandal, and Byzantine Coinage in Africa -- 24 The Arab Conquests and the End of Ancient Africa? -- Index -- EULA.