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  • Introduction

  • Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, Michael Maas, Rice University, Houston
  • Book:
    Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity
    Published online:
    13 April 2018
    Print publication:
    26 April 2018, pp 1-16
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Empires of Ancient Eurasia
  • The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE – 250 CE
  • Craig Benjamin
  • Published online:
    20 April 2018
    Print publication:
    03 May 2018
  • The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations. Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants and adventurers, diplomats and missionaries, sailors and soldiers, and camels, horses and ships, carried their commodities, ideas, languages and pathogens enormous distances across Eurasia. The result was an underlying unity that traveled the length of the routes, and which is preserved to this day, expressed in common technologies, artistic styles, cultures and religions, and even disease and immunity patterns. In words and images, Craig Benjamin explores the processes that allowed for the comingling of so many goods, ideas, and diseases around a geographical hub deep in central Eurasia. He argues that the first Silk Roads era was the catalyst for an extraordinary increase in the complexity of human relationships and collective learning, a complexity that helped drive our species inexorably along a path towards modernity.

Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14–2014
  • Edited by Penelope J. Goodman
  • Published online:
    19 April 2018
    Print publication:
    26 April 2018
  • The bimillennium of Augustus' death on 19 August 2014 commemorated not only the end of his life but also the beginning of a two-thousand-year reception history. This volume addresses the range and breadth of that history. Beginning with the Emperor's death and continuing through Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and early modernity to the present day, chapters address political positioning, religious mythologisation, philosophy, rhetoric, narratives, memory, and material embodiment. As they collectively reveal, Augustus has meant radically different things from one time and place to another, and even to some individual commentators as the circumstances around them changed. The weight of established narratives has often also shaped those of subsequent generations, with or without their conscious awareness. The book outlines and analyses the major themes in Augustus' reception history, clarifying the cultural and historiographical issues at stake and providing a platform for further scholarship.

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