The Lives of Ancient Villages: Rural Society in Roman Anatolia

by Peter Thonemann

Our conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The people of the deep Mediterranean countryside seldom appear in the historical record from antiquity, and almost never as historical actors. This book is the first extended historical ethnography of an ancient village society, based on an extraordinarily rich body of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009123211
• ISBN13: 9781009123211
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"