The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia by Vassilis Evangelidis - 9781789258011

Oxbow Books

The Archaeology of Roman MacedoniaUrban and Rural Environments\nAuthor(s): Vassilis Evangelidis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxbow Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxbow Books\nISBN-13: 9781789258011, 978-1789258011\nSynopsis\nMacedonia is a region that provides its own intriguing questions due to its position on the fringe of the classical Greek world. It is also an area that is of special interest to students of history and archaeology of Roman period Greece, since it was the first to be incorporated in the Roman state. Macedonia shared a similar path of development with Achaea during the imperial period. As provinces far from productive zones and frontiers, both played a minor role in the imperial administrative structure. Beneath this similarity, however, lie many differences: in Macedonias proximity to the Balkans, its early contact with Rome, its relatively low level of urbanization, its multicultural context and its sizeable economy, which played their own role in the formati.