UID:
almafu_9961517831002883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, viii, 970 pages) :
,
illustrations (some color), maps.
ISBN:
9781118538265
,
1118538269
,
9781119113607
,
1119113601
,
9781119113591
,
1119113598
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Content:
"The nature of the Romans' relationship with the sea can be summarized in one word: adversarial. The literary evidence makes plain that most Romans preferred and admired a terrestrial, agricultural life - consequently they disliked the sea and distrusted those who made a living on it. For Cicero, the downfall of Corinth and Carthage stemmed from the decision to abandon agriculture in favor of maritime commerce (Vishnia 1988). Of course, the literary evidence primarily reflects the attitudes of the senatorial class, who regarded merchants as lying thieves, and their workplace a source of corruption polluted by the immoral ideas of foreigners (Horden and Purcell 2000). Funerary inscriptions, not surprisingly, paint a different picture by revealing that Roman merchants prided themselves on honesty and integrity (Knapp 2011, 8-10). History suggests that the Romans took to the sea only out of necessity. During the Punic Wars, the first sizable Roman fleet was realized by replicating a captured Carthaginian warship. The vessel that eventually became the backbone of the imperial provincial fleets was borrowed from Illyrian pirates. The Roman navy was regarded as a less prestigious branch of the military, comparable to the auxilia staffed by non-citizens and commanded by equestrians. Discharge diplomas and funerary inscriptions show that Roman sailors were referred to as milites, and served 26 years, or one year longer than their terrestrial counterparts in the auxilia. The technical, naval terminology of the Romans contains very few words of Latin derivation; the vast majority were borrowed or adapted from Greek"--
Note:
Volume -- Part I Inter-Regional Factors -- Introduction: The Material Roman Empire 3 Barbara Burrell -- 2 The Sea 14 Deborah N. Carlson -- 3 Roads and Waterways 37 R. Bruce Hitchner -- 4 Coinage 51 Barbara Burrell -- 5 Pottery and Foodways 69 Nicholas F. Hudson -- 6 The Military 91 Alexandra W. Busch -- 7 Technology 156 Lynne C. Lancaster -- 8 Summation 177 Greg Woolf -- Part II Regional Factors -- 9 The City of Rome 189 Stephen Dyson -- 10 Italy 206 Annalisa Marzano -- 11 Sicilia 232 Roger J.A. Wilson -- 12 Raetia 257 Günther Moosbauer -- 13 Dacia 273 Alexandru Diaconescu -- 14 Dalmatia 297 Dino Demicheli -- 15 Macedonia 322 Vassilis Evangelidis -- 16 Epirus 346 David R. Hernandez -- 17 Achaea 373 Dimitris Grigoropoulos -- 18 Crete and the Cyclades 398 Rebecca J. Sweetman -- 19 Thrace 419 Ivo Topalilov -- 20 Bithynia and Pontus 443 Owen Doonan -- 21 Asia 468 C. Brian Rose -- Volume -- 22 Galatia and Pisidia 492 Karl Strobel -- 23 Cappadocia 520 Guido Rosada, Maria Teresa Lachin, and Jacopo Turchetto -- 24 Lycia 537 Oliver Hülden -- 25 Pamphylia 559 Matthias C. Pichler -- 26 Cilicia 582 Dominique Krüger and Richard Posamentir -- 27 Syria 606 Andreas Kropp -- 28 Cyprus 632 Jody M. Gordon -- 29 Judaea 660 Barbara Burrell -- 30 Arabia 688 Sarah Wenner -- 31 Egypt 712 Willeke Wendrich -- 32 Cyrenaica 740 Susan Kane -- 33 Africa/Numidia/Mauretania 757 David J. Mattingly -- 34 Lusitania 781 Daniel Osland -- 35 Hispania Citerior and Hispania Baetica 804 Isabel Roda and Oliva Rodríguez Gutiérrez -- 36 Gallia Aquitania and Gallia Lugdunensis 831 Jane DeRose Evans -- 37 Gallia Narbonensis 854 Ralph Haeussler -- 38 Germania 880 David Wigg-Wolf -- 39 Britannia 911 Pete Wilson -- Names and Places -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Companion to the archaeology of the Roman Empire Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022 ISBN 9781118620311
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
DOI:
10.1002/9781118538265
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118538265
