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East of Asia Minor: Rome's Hidden Frontier
Timothy Bruce Mitford
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Description for East of Asia Minor: Rome's Hidden Frontier
Hardcover. These two volumes document the topography, monuments, inscriptions, and sighted coins of the north-eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, looking in detail at strategic roads, bridges, forts, watch and signalling systems, and interpreting the literary and epigraphic evidence for the frontier and its garrisons. Num Pages: 736 pages, Two colour plates sections, including 28 maps, and 310 black and white in-text figures. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLA1; HBTQ; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 276 x 219. .
The north-eastern frontier of the Roman Empire - one of the great gaps in modern knowledge of the ancient world - has long eluded research. It has defied systematic exploration and been insulated against all but passing survey by wars, instability, political sensitivities, language, and the region's wild, remote mountains, mostly accessible only on horseback or on foot. Its path lay across eastern Turkey, following the Euphrates valley northwards from Syria, through gorges and across great ranges, and passing over the Pontic Alps to reach the further shores of the Black Sea. Vespasian established Rome's frontier against Armenia half ... Read more
The north-eastern frontier of the Roman Empire - one of the great gaps in modern knowledge of the ancient world - has long eluded research. It has defied systematic exploration and been insulated against all but passing survey by wars, instability, political sensitivities, language, and the region's wild, remote mountains, mostly accessible only on horseback or on foot. Its path lay across eastern Turkey, following the Euphrates valley northwards from Syria, through gorges and across great ranges, and passing over the Pontic Alps to reach the further shores of the Black Sea. Vespasian established Rome's frontier against Armenia half ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
832
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198725176
SKU
V9780198725176
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About Timothy Bruce Mitford
Timothy Bruce Mitford is an Associate Member of the Corpus Christi College Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity at the University of Oxford and Commander, Royal Navy.In 2018, Dr Mitford was awarded a British Academy Medal for East of Asia Minor: Romes Hidden Frontier, Vols I & II (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Reviews for East of Asia Minor: Rome's Hidden Frontier
Dr Mitford was awarded a British Academy Meal for East of Asia Minor (2018) [A] detailed encyclopedic and highly referenced two-volume work documenting regional climate, geography, history, trade routes, inscriptions, and numismatics (c. 130 BCE-CE 677) [...] Research on this scale sets new standards of academic scholarship unlikely to be surpassed. Summing Up: Essential.
C. C. Kolb, independent scholar, ... Read more
C. C. Kolb, independent scholar, ... Read more