Forerunners of the Hattusili-Ramesses treaty
The Hattusili-Ramesses treaty is known from two main sources. These are texts in Egyptian hieroglyphs preserved on the walls of the temple of Amun at Karnak and of the Ramesseum, and of some fragmentary cuneiform tablets in Akkadian, discovered at the Hittite capital of Hattusa, the modern site of Boghazk
Roman Imperialism Checked at Teutoburger Wald in AD 9
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Empress Zenobia and Gender Bias Among the Romans
Zenobia and her husband, Odaenathus, ruled on the far Eastern limits of the Roman Empire during the time that is commonly referred to by historians as the ‘Third Century Crisis.’
"A Sight Unfit to See": Jewish Reactions to the Roman Imperial Cult
The general question of the relationship between the Jews and the imperial cult has received very little attention in modern literature. It is, of course, universally assumed that Jews would not have been willing to acknowledge an emperor
The Sibylline Oracles and Queen Zenobia of Palmyra: A Case Study for
This paper explores how predictions of Apocalypse in the Sibylline Oracles were utilized by Queen Zenobia of Palmyra, the last in a long line of opportunists to exploit such prophecies as venues of power, rather than as omens of despair.
The Great Jewish Revolt of 66 AD: Conflicts Within Conflicts
The other conflict that exhausted the Jewish ability to wage a successful revolution against the Romans was their internal conflicts. Much of the resentment that flourished in this period of violence had its origin in the Greek rule of the Jews under the Greco- Macedonian dynasty of Antiochus of Syria.
Painting the wine-dark sea: traveling Aegean fresco artists in the Middle and late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
By examining the fresco fragments themselves I establish that the motifs represented and the style of manufacture are in fact Aegean. Textual evidence from the Near East and Egyptian tomb paintings suggest that the Aegean was well-known for its artistic accomplishments and that Aegean goods and the artisans that produced them were treated as elite commodities.
Contacts and trade at Late Bronze Age Hazor: aspects of intercultural relationships and identity in the Eastern Mediterranean
The city of Hazor appears to have been one of the largest in Canaan in the Late Bronze Age, yet no real attempt to trace the source of its affluence has been made. No city can prosper in isolation; hence intercultural relationships are of greatest importance for a city’s development.
Narratives of Roman Syria: a historiography of Syria as a province of Rome
Narratives of Roman Syria: a historiography of Syria as a province of Rome Lidewijde de Jong Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: July (2007)…
Narratives of Roman Syria: a historiography of Syria as a province of Rome
Existing scholarly accounts of Roman Syria revolve around three themes: hellenization,
similarity to Rome, and a profound difference with the western provinces of the Roman empire. In the following sections I argue that the overemphasis on these three themes by scholars has obscured the process of Syria’s incorporation into the Roman empire and the profound impact of this process on local communities.