The Middle East under Rome (2004 Sartre), book (English. ed.)

The Middle East under Rome (2004) is the English edition of D'Alexandre à Zénobie: histoire du Levant antique (2001 Sartre), book. Translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings, with Jeannine Routier-Pucci, from the French.

Editions

Published in Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Table of contents

Hellenistic legacy -- End of Seleucid Syria and the first Roman rule -- From Augustus to Trajan: creating a province -- Crises in Judaea from Herod to Bar Kokhba -- From Trajan to the Severi: conquests and reorganizations -- Civic life and urban development during the early empire -- Rural life in the early empire -- The urban economy in Roman Syria -- Hellenization and indigenous cultures -- Pagans, Jews, and Christians in Roman Syria in the second and third centuries -- A time of trials.