The Roman Provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE
Using Coins as Sources
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Publishing:14th Nov '24
£29.99
This title is due to be published on 14th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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Highly illustrated introduction to Roman provincial coins, opening up a huge range of contemporary evidence to students of ancient history.
Makes a complex subject easy for instructors and students to understand and shows how the provincial coinage can illustrate many aspects of Roman Republican and Imperial history. Includes over two hundred illustrations of coins with detailed captions, so providing a convenient sourcebook of the most important items.Provincial coinage gives us a unique insight into the Roman world, reflecting the values and concerns of the elites of the many hundreds of cities in the Roman empire. Coins offer a very different perspective from written history, which usually represents the views of the senatorial class, and which was usually composed long after the events that are described. The coins, in contrast, provide evidence without hindsight, and uniquely allow a systematic examination across the whole Roman world. This volume makes it possible for instructors and students and scholars to deploy a complex set of material evidence on many historical topics. It includes over two hundred illustrations of coins with detailed captions, so providing a convenient sourcebook of the most important items, and covers topics such as the motivation for Roman conquest, the revolution of Augustus, the world of the Second Sophistic and the crisis of the third century.
ISBN: 9781009420105
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406 pages