Revaluing Roman Cyprus : local identity on an island in antiquity / Ersin Hussein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hussein, Ersin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roman provinces--History.

Roman provinces.

Cyprus--History--To 1500.

Cyprus.

Cyprus--Relations--Rome.

Rome--Relations--Cyprus.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Revaluing Roman Cyprus provides an examination of the history of Roman Cyprus and its place in the Roman Empire. Hussein shows that Cyprus was an active site of Roman political culture and an important crossroads in the eastern Mediterranean.

Contents:

Cover

Revaluing Roman Cyprus: Local Identity on an Island in Antiquity

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Conventions and Abbreviations

Introduction

Maps

1: Ancient and Modern World Views: Cyprus and the Island Paradox

1.1 The Importance of Geography

1.2 The Formation of Islands and Their Status as Real and Imagined Landscapes in the Roman Empire

1.3 The Geography of Cyprus according to Outsiders

1.3.1 Strabo

1.3.2 Pliny the Elder

1.3.3 Claudius Ptolemy

1.3.4 Pausanias

1.3.5 Ammianus Marcellinus and the Anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi et Gentium

1.3.6 Ancient and Modern Imagined Islandscapes

1.4 Roman Cyprus: The Wider Research Context and the Way Forward

2: The Roman Annexation and Administration of Cyprus

2.1 The Need to Revisit Well-trodden Ground

2.2 The Roman Annexation

2.2.1 From Ptolemaic to Roman Control

2.2.2 58 BC

2.2.3 Reaction to Annexation

2.3 The Administration of Roman Cyprus

2.3.1 Initial Administration: 58-48/7 BC

2.3.2 Ptolemaic Restoration: 48/7-30 BC

2.3.3 After Actium: From Imperial to Public Province

2.4 Re-evaluating the Evidence

2.4.1 The Available Evidence for Study of the Proconsuls

2.4.2 The Revised List of Roman Proconsuls

2.4.2.1 Roman Proconsuls from 22 BC

2.4.2.2 Roman Proconsuls of Uncertain Date or Otherwise Unknown

2.4.3 Where Monuments were Set Up, by Whom, and Why

2.5 The Local Level: The Koinon Kuprion

2.6 Conclusions

3: Roman Citizenship in the Cypriot Context

3.1 'Roman Civitas in Salamis'-Mitford's Survey Revisited

3.2 High-profile Visitors

3.2.1 Trading Communities from Italy

3.2.2 Marcia

3.2.3 Lucius Septimius Nestor of Laranda

3.3 Becoming 'Roman'?

3.3.1 Instances of Roman Citizenship

3.3.2 Key Groups and Dynamics

3.3.3 Articulating Identity and Belonging.

3.3.4 Cypriots Abroad

3.4 Conclusions

4: Civic Identity

4.1 Approaching Collective Identity Formation

4.2 What Foundation Myths Tell Us

4.2.1 Palaipaphos and Nea Paphos

4.2.2 Kourion

4.2.3 Amathous

4.2.4 Salamis

4.3 Material Culture and Identity in the Local Context

4.3.1 The Paphos Region

4.3.1.1 In the Realm of Aphrodite Paphia

4.3.1.2 The Inscribed Oath of Allegiance to Tiberius

4.3.2 Kourion: City of Perseus

4.3.3 Amathous: Aphrodite Cypria's Domain

4.3.4 Salamis: The Immateriality of Teuker

4.4 Conclusions

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-108336-4

0-19-182322-8

0-19-108335-6

OCLC:

1260344240