Henry Innes MacAdam
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
384
2002
This volume focuses on the Roman provinces of Syria and Arabia above all the lands now within Lebanon Syria and Jordan. The first article look at questions of geography cartography and toponymy particularly in Strabo Pliny and Ptolemy. The following sections are concerned with settlement patterns and urban development in the region. In the Roman and early Byzantine periods the inland areas underwent a gradual transformation from a semi-sedentary lightly populated and predominantly rural region to one of large cities and a network of prosperous socially sophisticated villages linked by a network of roads. That change is documented by a wealth of epigraphy from both the urban communities and their outlying settlements (the subject of several articles). By the 4th century too Christianity had become the dominant religion and remained such until the arrival of Islam.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
384
2002
This volume focuses on the Roman provinces of Syria and Arabia above all the lands now within Lebanon Syria and Jordan. The first article look at questions of geography cartography and toponymy particularly in Strabo Pliny and Ptolemy. The following sections are concerned with settlement patterns and urban development in the region. In the Roman and early Byzantine periods the inland areas underwent a gradual transformation from a semi-sedentary lightly populated and predominantly rural region to one of large cities and a network of prosperous socially sophisticated villages linked by a network of roads. That change is documented by a wealth of epigraphy from both the urban communities and their outlying settlements (the subject of several articles). By the 4th century too Christianity had become the dominant religion and remained such until the arrival of Islam.