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Late Antiquity

A Guide to the Postclassical World

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

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Late Antiquity

A Guide to the Postclassical World

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

In 11 in-depth essays and over 500 encyclopedia entries, a cast of experts provides fresh perspectives on an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented upheavals, and the creation of art of enduring glory. 79 illustrations, 16 in color.

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Harvard University Press

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0674511735

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9780674511736

Julian the Apostate

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

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Julian the Apostate

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

Proceeding directly from an evaluation of the ancient sources--the testimony of friends and enemies of Julian as well as the writings of the emperor himself--the author traces Julian's youth, his command of the Roman forces in Gaul, and his emergence as sole ruler in the course of a dramatic march to Constantinople.

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160

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Harvard University Press

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0674488822

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9780674488823

Roman Arabia

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

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Roman Arabia

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, northwest Saudi Arabia, and the Negev. Mr. Bowersock's book is the first authoritative history of the region from the fourth century B.C. to the age of Constantine. The book opens with the arrival of the Nahataean Arabs in their magnificent capital at Petra and describes the growth of their hellenized culture based on trade in perfume and spices. It traces the transformation of the region from an Arab kingdom under Roman influence into an imperial province, one that played an increasingly important role in the Roman strategy for control of the Near East. While the primary emphasis is on the relations of the Arabs of the region with the Romans, their interactions with neighboring states, Jewish, Egyptian, and Syrian, are also stressed. The narrative concludes with the breakup of the Roman province at the start of the Byzantine age.

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262

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Harvard University Press

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0674777565

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9780674777569

Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

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Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

Political and military developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of Islam

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UPNE

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161168322X

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9781611683226

Fiction as History

Nero to Julian

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

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Fiction as History

Nero to Julian

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present were proliferating at an astonishing rate and history was being invented all over again. With force and eloquence, Bowersock illuminates social attitudes of this period and persuasively argues that its fiction was influenced by the emerging Christian Gospel narratives. Enthralling in its breadth and enhanced by two erudite appendices, this is a book that will be warmly welcomed by historians and interpreters of literature. Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present were proliferating at an astonishing rate and history was being invented all over again. With force and eloquence, Bowersock illuminates social attitudes of this period and persuasively argues that its fiction was influenced by the emerging Christian Gospel narratives. Enthralling in its breadth and enhanced by two erudite appendices, this is a book that will be warmly welcomed by historians and interpreters of literature.

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Univ of California Press

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0520208811

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9780520208810

Fiction as History

Nero to Julian

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

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Nero to Julian

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

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Julian the Apostate

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

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Late Antiquity

A Guide to the Postclassical World

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

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Interpreting Late Antiquity

Essays on the Postclassical World

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

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Interpreting Late Antiquity

Essays on the Postclassical World

By: Glen Warren Bowersock

The era of late antiquity--from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth--was marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory. In these eleven in-depth essays, drawn from the award-winning reference work Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on this period's culture and history.

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320

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Harvard University Press

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0674005988

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Martyrdom and Rome

By: G. W. Bowersock

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Martyrdom and Rome

By: G. W. Bowersock

This book examines the historical context of the earliest Christian martyrs, and anchors their grisly and often willful self-sacrifice to the everyday life and outlook of the cities (mostly Greek) of the Roman empire. By exploring the remains of contemporary documents of martyrdoms in the centuries before Constantine, it provides a historical explanation of why martyrdom occurred when and as it did, and thereby tries to expose the fundamental assumptions of a radical new form of religious and political dissidence that has been a powerful influence down to our own times.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521465397

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9780521465397

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Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity

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Roman Arabia

Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity

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Fiction as History

Julian the Apostate

Julian the Apostate

Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity

Interpreting Late Antiquity

Interpreting Late Antiquity

Martyrdom and Rome

Martyrdom and Rome

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