Late Antiquity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9307028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benet Salway (corresponding author) |
| Editors | Christer Bruun (0000-0002-0023-4953), Jonathan Edmondson (0000-0003-1301-173X) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195336467.013.018 |
| OpenAlex | W4229776616 |
| ISBN | 9780195336467 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Late antique epigraphy differs in several respects from that of the High Empire, reflecting the changed political, economic, and cultural circumstances. This chapter focuses on the epigraphic habit of that fluctuating portion of the late antique world that remained Roman. Despite the emergence of inscriptions in additional languages, such as Syriac and Coptic, Latin and Greek retained their hegemony as the two main epigraphic languages of the Roman world. The establishment of an imperial court, with its attendant bureaucratic and military retinue, in major centres of the Greek East from the last decades of the third century coincided with a new flowering of Latin inscriptions in the region
Ancient history · Antique · Art · Bureaucracy · Empire · Epigraphy · Hegemony · Late Antiquity · Political science · Politics · Roman Empire · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |