Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces

TRAMA

Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing this authoritative collection of essays, which ranges over the whole Roman world from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300. The subject is approached through surveys of the broad geographical and chronological structure of the evidence, through chapters which focus on ways of expressing identity, and through regional studies which place the numismatic evidence in local context.

SOMMARIO

1 - Coinage and identity in the Roman provinces2 - Aspects of identity3 - The chronological development of Roman provincial coin iconography4 - The cities and their money5 - Coinage and identity in pre-conquest Britain: 50 BC-AD 506 - Coinage and identity in the Roman provinces: Spain7 - `Belonging' to Rome, `remaining' Greek: Coinage and identity in Roman Macedonia8 - Religious-cultural identity in Thrace and Moesia Inferior9 - Local mythologies in the Greek East10 - Festivals and games in the cities of the East during the Roman Empire11 - Pergamum as paradigm12 - Information, legitimation or self-legitimation? Popular and elite designs on the coin types of Syria13 - City eras on Palestinian coinage14 - Coinage and identity: The Jewish evidence15 - The nome coins of Roman Egypt16 - The Roman West and the Roman East

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199237845
• Dimensioni: 275 x 15.8 x 219 mm Ø 735 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 32 pages of b&w plates, 5 maps
• Pagine Arabe: 276