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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787304803321

Titolo

Roman Phrygia : culture and society / / edited by Peter Thonemann [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-89232-0

1-107-28972-6

1-107-28920-3

1-107-29409-6

1-107-29025-2

1-139-38157-1

1-107-29130-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Greek culture in the Roman world

Disciplina

939/.26

Soggetti

Romans - Turkey - Phrygia

Sepulchral monuments - Turkey - Phrygia

Sculpture, Phrygian - Turkey

Households - Turkey - Phrygia

Law - Turkey - Phrygia

Inscriptions, Latin - Turkey - Phrygia

Marble industry and trade - Turkey - Phrygia

Phrygia History

Phrygia Antiquities, Roman

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Phrygia : an anarchist history, 950 BC -- ad 100 / Peter Thonemann -- In the Phrygian mode : a region seen from without / Barbara Levick -- The personal onomastics of Roman Phrygia / Claude Brixhe -- Grave monuments and local identities in Roman Phrygia / Ute Kelp -- Phrygians in relief : trends in self-representation / Jane Masseglia -- Households and families in Roman Phrygia / Peter Thonemann -- Law in Roman Phrygia : rules and jurisdictions / Georgy Kantor -- An epigraphic probe into the origins of montanism / Stephen Mitchell --



The 'crypto-Christian' inscriptions of Phrygia / Edouard Chiricat -- Phrygian marble and stonemasonry as markers of regional distinctiveness in late antiquity / Philipp Niewohner -- The history of an idea : tracing the origins of the Mama Project / Charlotte Roueche.

Sommario/riassunto

The bleak steppe and rolling highlands of inner Anatolia were one of the most remote and underdeveloped parts of the Roman empire. Still today, for most historians of the Roman world, ancient Phrygia largely remains terra incognita. Yet thanks to a startling abundance of Greek and Latin inscriptions on stone, the cultural history of the villages and small towns of Roman Phrygia is known to us in vivid and unexpected detail. Few parts of the Mediterranean world offer so rich a body of evidence for rural society in the Roman Imperial and late antique periods, and for the flourishing of ancient Christianity within this landscape. The eleven essays in this book offer new perspectives on the remarkable culture, lifestyles, art and institutions of the Anatolian uplands in antiquity.