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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.