Rome and the worlds beyond its frontiers / / edited by Danielle Slootjes and Michael Peachin.

• Superior document: Impact of Empire, Volume 21
• TeilnehmendeR: Slootjes, Daniëlle,; Peachin, Michael, 1954-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; Volume 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 pages) :; illustrations (some color), charts, tables.
• Notes: Includes indexes.

This volume offers an expansive approach to interactions between Romans and those beyond the borders of Rome. The range of papers included here is wide, both in terms of subject matter and with respect to approach. That said, a number of important themes bind the essays. Who is an insider, and who the outsider? How were these categories of person, or identity, fashioned and/or recognized in antiquity? How shall we recognize them now? What are the categories, or standards, for measuring or determining inside and outside in the Roman world? And then, of course, what are the repercussions when inside and outside come into contact? What happens when the outside is in, or the inside out?

Table of Contents

Rome, Pontus, Thrace and the Military Disintegration of the World Beyond the Hellenistic East / Toni Ñaco del Hoyo and Isaías Arrayás-Morales -- Estranging the Familiar—Rome’s Ambivalent Approach to Britain / Gil Gambash -- Rome and Persia in the Middle of the Third Century AD (230–266) / Lukas de Blois -- The Emperor Beyond the Frontiers: A Double-Mirror as a ‘Political Discourse’ / Stéphane Benoist -- Turning the Inside Out: The Divergent Experiences of Gaul and Africa during the Third Century AD / Dan Hoyer -- Raiders to Traders? Economics of Integration among Nomadic Communities in North Africa / Wim Broekaert and Wouter Vanacker -- Transfer römischer Technik jenseits der Grenzen: Aneignung und Export / Günther Schörner -- Perceptions from Beyond: Some Observations on Non-Roman Assessments of the Roman Empire from the Great Eastern Trade Routes / Anne Kolb and Michael A. Speidel -- Hospitium: Understanding ‘Ours’ and ‘Theirs’ on the Roman Frontier / John Nicols -- Palmyrenes in Transtiberim: Integration in Rome and Links to the Eastern Frontier / Blair Fowlkes-Childs -- Rival Powers, Rival Images: Diocletian’s Palace at Split in Light of Sasanian Palace Design / Anne Hunnell Chen -- The Reception of Figurative Art Beyond the Frontier: Scandinavian Encounters with Roman Numismatics / Nancy L. Wicker.