Roman Phrygia Culture and Society [Hardcover]

The first synthesis of the remarkable cultural history of the highlands of inner Anatolia under Roman rule.This multidisciplinary collection of essays transforms our understanding of ancient inner Anatolia, one of the most fascinating and understudied regions of the Roman empire. With essays on law, religion, architecture and art history, this book will be essential reading for all social and cultural historians of the Roman world.This multidisciplinary collection of essays transforms our understanding of ancient inner Anatolia, one of the most fascinating and understudied regions of the Roman empire. With essays on law, religion, architecture and art history, this book will be essential reading for all social and cultural historians of the Roman world.The bleak steppe and rolling highlands of inner Anatolia were one of the most remote and underdeveloped parts of the Roman empire. Still today, for most historians of the Roman world, ancient Phrygia largely remains terra incognita. Yet thanks to a startling abundance of Greek and Latin inscriptions on stone, the cultural history of the villages and small towns of Roman Phrygia is known to us in vivid and unexpected detail. Few parts of the Mediterranean world offer so rich a body of evidence for rural society in the Roman Imperial and late antique periods, and for the flourishing of ancient Christianity within this landscape. The eleven essays in this book offer new perspectives on the remarkable culture, lifestyles, art and institutions of the Anatolian uplands in antiquity.1. Phrygia: an anarchist history, 950 BCAD 100 Peter Thonemann; 2. In the Phrygian mode: a region seen from without Barbara Levick; 3. The personal onomastics of Roman Phrygia Claude Brixhe; 4. Grave monuments and local identities in Roman Phrygia Ute Kelp; 5. Phrygians in relief: trends in self-representation Jane Mass?glia; 6. Households and families in Roman Phrygia Peter Thonemann; 7. Law in Roman Phrygia: rules and jurisdictions Georgy Kantl)