Author: Peter Thonemann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine monastic archives to Latin poetic texts, ancient land records to hagiographic biographies, Peter Thonemann reveals the complex and fascinating interplay between the natural environment and human activities in the Maeander valley. Both a large-scale regional history and a profound meditation on the role played by geography in human history, this book is an essential contribution to the history of the Eastern Mediterranean in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages.
The Maeander Valley
Author: Peter Thonemann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine monastic archives to Latin poetic texts, ancient land records to hagiographic biographies, Peter Thonemann reveals the complex and fascinating interplay between the natural environment and human activities in the Maeander valley. Both a large-scale regional history and a profound meditation on the role played by geography in human history, this book is an essential contribution to the history of the Eastern Mediterranean in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine monastic archives to Latin poetic texts, ancient land records to hagiographic biographies, Peter Thonemann reveals the complex and fascinating interplay between the natural environment and human activities in the Maeander valley. Both a large-scale regional history and a profound meditation on the role played by geography in human history, this book is an essential contribution to the history of the Eastern Mediterranean in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages.
The Maeander Valley
Author: Peter Thonemann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781139128346
Category : Büyük Menderes River Valley (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
"Cratylus used to criticise Heraclitus for saying that it was impossible to step into the same river twice. He thought that it was impossible to step into the same river once.1 The fall of tralles, AD 1284 In the spring of the year AD 1280, the young future emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus led an army south from Constantinople into Asia Minor. Twenty years of Palaeologan rule had not been kind to the old Byzantine heartlands. After the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins in 1261, the emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus had kept his attention firmly trained on the European west. The Anatolian borderlands, the fertile coastal valleys of the Hermos, Cayster and Maeander, had largely been abandoned to their fate at the hands of the nascent Turkish warrior beyliks. Only at the very end of his life, between 1280 and 1282, did Michael make any concerted attempt to restore Byzantine authority in western Asia Minor, and by then, as would rapidly become apparent, it was far too late.2 Arriving in the valley of the river Maeander, and travelling eastwards along the north bank of the river, Andronicus passed the ruins of the ancient city of Tralles. Struck by the charms of the place, and the natural defensibility of the plateau on which the city stood, Andronicus decided to restore the ruined town as a place of refuge for the local Greek rural population (Fig. 1.1)."--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781139128346
Category : Büyük Menderes River Valley (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
"Cratylus used to criticise Heraclitus for saying that it was impossible to step into the same river twice. He thought that it was impossible to step into the same river once.1 The fall of tralles, AD 1284 In the spring of the year AD 1280, the young future emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus led an army south from Constantinople into Asia Minor. Twenty years of Palaeologan rule had not been kind to the old Byzantine heartlands. After the recovery of Constantinople from the Latins in 1261, the emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus had kept his attention firmly trained on the European west. The Anatolian borderlands, the fertile coastal valleys of the Hermos, Cayster and Maeander, had largely been abandoned to their fate at the hands of the nascent Turkish warrior beyliks. Only at the very end of his life, between 1280 and 1282, did Michael make any concerted attempt to restore Byzantine authority in western Asia Minor, and by then, as would rapidly become apparent, it was far too late.2 Arriving in the valley of the river Maeander, and travelling eastwards along the north bank of the river, Andronicus passed the ruins of the ancient city of Tralles. Struck by the charms of the place, and the natural defensibility of the plateau on which the city stood, Andronicus decided to restore the ruined town as a place of refuge for the local Greek rural population (Fig. 1.1)."--
A History of Urban Organization in the Lower Maeander River Valley
Author: Ronald T. Marchese
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Attalid Asia Minor
Author: Peter Thonemann
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199656118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This book is the first full-length study to be dedicated to the political economy of the Attalid kingdom of Pergamon, focusing in particular on its financial administration, international relations, and the functioning of the state.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199656118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This book is the first full-length study to be dedicated to the political economy of the Attalid kingdom of Pergamon, focusing in particular on its financial administration, international relations, and the functioning of the state.
The Hellenistic Age
Author: Peter Thonemann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198746040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The three centuries following the conquests of Alexander were perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. Culture, ideas, and individuals travelled freely over vast areas from the Rhone to the Indus, whilst dynasts battled for dominion over Alexander's great empire. Thonemann presents a brief history of this globalized world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198746040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The three centuries following the conquests of Alexander were perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. Culture, ideas, and individuals travelled freely over vast areas from the Rhone to the Indus, whilst dynasts battled for dominion over Alexander's great empire. Thonemann presents a brief history of this globalized world.
Roman Phrygia
Author: Peter Thonemann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The first synthesis of the remarkable cultural history of the highlands of inner Anatolia under Roman rule.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The first synthesis of the remarkable cultural history of the highlands of inner Anatolia under Roman rule.
Geography in Classical Antiquity
Author: Daniela Dueck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521197880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521197880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.
Christianizing Asia Minor
Author: Paul McKechnie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481469
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Explores the growth of Christianity in inland Roman Asia, as cities and rural communities moved away from polytheistic Greco-Roman religion.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481469
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Explores the growth of Christianity in inland Roman Asia, as cities and rural communities moved away from polytheistic Greco-Roman religion.
Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome
Author: J. B. Campbell
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores
A History of Ancient Geography
Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601384
Category : History
Languages : ru
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601384
Category : History
Languages : ru
Pages : 472
Book Description