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Byzantium and the Bosporus: A Historical Study, from the Seventh Century BC until the Foundation of Constantinople: Oxford Classical Monographs

Autor Thomas Russell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 noi 2016
In ad 330 the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. Its later history is well known, yet comparatively little is known about the city before it became Constantinople and then Istanbul. Although it was just a minor Greek polis located on the northern fringes of Hellenic culture, surrounded by hostile Thracian tribes and denigrated by one ancient wit as the 'armpit of Greece', Byzantium did nevertheless possess one unique advantage - control of the Bosporus strait. This highly strategic waterway links the Aegean to the Black Sea, thereby conferring on the city the ability to tax maritime traffic passing between the two. Byzantium and the Bosporus is a historical study of the city of Byzantium and its society, epigraphy, culture, and economy, which seeks to establish the significance of its geographical circumstances and in particular its relationship with the Bosporus strait. Examining the history of the region through this lens reveals how over almost a millennium it came to shape many aspects of the lives of its inhabitants, illuminating not only the nature of economic exploitation and the attitudes of ancient imperialism, but also local industries and resources and the genesis of communities' local identities. Drawing extensively on Dionysius of Byzantium's Anaplous Bosporou, an ancient account of the journey up the Bosporus, and on local inscriptions, what emerges is a meditation on regional particularism which reveals the pervasive influence which the waterway had on the city of Byzantium and its local communities, and which illustrates how the history of this region cannot be understood in isolation from its geographical context. This volume will be of interest to all those interested in classical history more broadly and to Byzantinists seeking to explore the history of the city before it became Constantinople.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198790525
ISBN-10: 019879052X
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 13 black-and-white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 144 x 223 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Classical Monographs

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Byzantium is fast moving up both the political and the academic agenda. This is a city whose history we have to try to understand. Dr. Russell's approach is timely and entirely apposite. Istanbul cannot be investigated without understanding its relationship to water and to land -- a trope that begins at the start of the historical period in Byzantion. Both acute and expansive Byzantium and Bosporus combines robust original research with a fluid writing style. We learn of the significance of the Thracian Bosporus in helping to generate the economic, political and cultural character of the communities that lived along its edge. Enjoyable, erudite, eye-opening.
There is a lot to like about this book: readers will find it as refreshing as the reviewer did ... here is something new, daring and utterly involving.

Notă biografică

Thomas Russell earned his doctorate at St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 2013, and is now a teacher of Classics.