Beschreibung
A group of essays that trace the development of Roman influence in the eastern parts of the empire. Contents include: Urbanization (Greg Woolf); Roman colonies in the province of Achaia (A Rizakis); Syrian desert (M Gawlikowski); The Syrian countryside (G Tate); Jewish rural settlement (Y Hirschfield); Roman relations with the Persicus sinus (D T Potts); The Imperial image (C B Rose); The Black Sea region (David Braund); Funerary monuments in Asia Minor (Sarah Cormack); Tomb architecture at Palmyra (A Schmidt-Colinet); Pilgrimage, religion and visual culture in the East (Jas Elsner).