The presence, role and significance of Latin in the epigraphy and culture of the Roman Near East

Eck, Werner

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“…100 However, as far as the comparatively smaller number of pre-Constantinian Greek inscriptions is concerned, it can be inferred that the surviving evidence is not representative. This is because, as Eck (2009: 36) observes, ‘the number of Latin and Greek inscriptions in the first three centuries must have been more or less the same’. Here is an excellent example of the unrepresentative nature of the epigraphic evidence.…”

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The Use of Greek in Early Roman Galilee: The Inscriptional Evidence Re-examined

Charlesworth

2016

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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Based on numbers alone, Greek had as much currency in first- as it did in second- and third-century Galilee. But measuring the use of Greek by calculating the number of inscriptions in each century is flawed methodology. This is because the inscriptional evidence is patchy and unrepresentative (as the very few inscriptions in Aramaic/Hebrew demonstrate). Scholars must first understand the various kinds of ancient bilingualism, then look for indications of these, including (written) Greek literacy. Literary and other evidence, especially factors that might encourage bilingualism, such as the influence of the administrative cities of Sepphoris and Tiberias and the surrounding Hellenistic cities, the state of the Galilean economy, and rural-urban dynamics, can then help to fill in the gaps. On the basis of all of the extant evidence, knowledge of Greek was probably quite common, with most people picking it up by force of circumstance rather than through formal instruction.

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“… 100. Eck 2009: 38. ‘[E]ven outside the ruling classes Latin seems to have been taken for granted as demonstrated in the modest graves of women and liberti ’. …”

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The Use of Greek in Early Roman Galilee: The Inscriptional Evidence Re-examined

Charlesworth

2016

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“…Dobson 1978Maxfield 1981: 184 ("more probably … direct commission to a centurionate"); 204. Zum Bilinguismus in Kleinasien während des Prinzipats siehe Levick 1995;Kearsley 2001;Adams 2002;Biville 2002;Eck 2009. Vgl.…”

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About Sex. Vibius Gallus of Amastris

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2017

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Sex. Vibius Gallus, trecenarius, primus pilus and praefectus castrorum legionis XIII Geminae, a highly decorated soldier who had served under Domitian and Trajan, chose to settle down in the small Greek polis of Amastris in the province of Pontus et Bithynia. His descendants and wider family are to be found among the elites of this city and at least one other, Abonuteichos, holding high office, sponsoring buildings, granting benefactions. It is generally assumed that Vibius Gallus was an Amastrian by birth and that, after completing his military service, he chose to return and settle in his home city. This paper attempts to disprove this assumption. It discusses his military career, his family, the language of his inscriptions and details of the several monuments set up by himself and his family, in order to show that he was originally from one of the Western provinces and that his choice of Amasra as his home turned him into the ancestor of a new family among the elites of a Greek city.

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“…Similarly, we do not know whether the Jerusalem bishop who could speak Aramaic, but refused to do so in the church, was affirming religious Orthodoxy, or social status, or both, in speaking Greek. On the other 57 Eck (2009) 17-9.…”

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Cultural identity in the Roman Near East: An historiographical exercise

Coleman¹

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<p>The central premise of this thesis is that the concepts of hellenisation and romanisation are no longer useful as interpretive models of the Graeco-Roman Near East. Through most of the twentieth century they did good service generating research questions and providing innovative explanations of both existing and new data. On the one hand the notion of hellenisation focused attention on the historical importance of cultural change in the Hellenistic period, while the concept of romanisation focused scholarly attention on life in the provinces rather than on the court life of the imperial city and highlighted the importance of epigraphy and archaeology as against the philological study of literary texts. But the underlying assumptions of both concepts — the superiority of Graeco-Roman culture, the 'civilising' role of the intrusive powers, the passivity of the indigenous peoples of the region, the notion that Greek, Roman and Semitic cultures are bounded entities — are now dated. In the first part of the thesis I deconstruct the concepts of hellenisation and romanisation in detail and then develop an alternative framework which is avowedly postmodern and interdisciplinary, eschews eurocentrism, and uses postcolonial concepts as well as insights from modern social theory. In the second part of the thesis I use the alternative framework to review the evidence relating to the provincial city of Gerasa in the Roman province of Arabia. Looked at through this alternative prism it has been possible to offer some different readings of the evidence not apparent in earlier interpretations. In particular, in using the concepts of resistant strategy and cultural imperialism to discuss the emergence of the Antonine period city plan, I challenge the traditional view of Hadrian's urbanisation policy.</p>

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The presence, role and significance of Latin in the epigraphy and culture of the Roman Near East

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