Palmyra and the East - Kenneth Lapatin
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2022Uitgever: Brepols Publishers181 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503598250ISBN-13: 9782503598253Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Summary The ancient caravan city of Palmyra, although located in the Syrian Desert, was very much a cultural locus, a place where peoples, goods, and ideas met and mingled from as far afield as Europe to the west and India and China to the east. It was a city that stood balanced between the power of the Roman Empire to one side, and the Parthian Empire to the other. Yet despite the city's location at a cultural crossroads, and its greater proximity to Parthia than Rome, scholars focusing on Palmyra have tr...
