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Between kingdom and 'koinon' Neapolis/Neoklaudiopolis and the Pontic cities

:	Soeren Lund Soerensen
:	Between kingdom and 'koinon' Neapolis/Neoklaudiopolis and the Pontic cities
:	Franz Steiner Verlag
:	9783515113175
:	Geographica historica
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:	CHF 51.70
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:	Altertum
:	English

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When, around 64 BC, the Romans drove out the last king of Pontos, they turned parts of his domains into a Roman province. The interior was, however, not ready for annexation, and a city-state culture was introduced, including the foundation of seven new cities in an area previously characterised by fortresses and temple states. This e-book surveys the development of these cities from their origins in the war-torn territories of the Pontic kingdom to the third century AD; by then they were fully incorporated in the Roman Empire. Furthermore, it places particular emphasis on one of them, Neapolis (later Neoklaudiopolis), an important but little studied city. Not only is this the first book-length study of Neapolis, it also reassesses the many Greek and Latin inscriptions from this city and Pontos in general. Among the documents re-evaluated here is a famous imperial oath taken to the Emperor Augustus, aptly illustrating the difficult transition from a Persian-Anatolian domain to a Roman province by the means of client kings and the imperial cult.

Søren Lund Sørensen (1983) studied Classics (MA) at the University of Copenhagen, Jewish Studies (MSt) at the University of Oxford and received his PhD in ancient history from the University of Southern Denmark (2015). He is currently a research assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin. Research interests include: Ancient Judaism, paradoxography, the Physiologus and Ancient Yemen.

	Contents	10
	Introduction	12
	Chapter I: The imperial oaths	20
	1. The imperial oath from Neapolis	20
	2. A comparison of the imperial oaths	23
	3. Scholarly trends in the study of the origins and development of the imperial oath	31
	4. The purpose of the preserved imperial oaths	42
	Chapter II: The provincial assemblies of the Pontic areas	46
	1. Marcus Antonius Rufus and the koinon	46
	2. Enter the koinon	51
	3. The political importance of the koinon	59
	4. The koinon and res repetundae	63
	Chapter III: The Pontic koina	74
	1. Introduction	74
	2. A war of analysts and unitarians	76
	3. The impact of Deininger	79
	4. Summary remarks	84
	5. The Pontic koinon of Pontus et Bithynia	85
	6. The Paphlagonian koinon	86
	7. The koinon of Armenia Minor	87
	8. The Pontic koina outside the double province Pontus et Bithynia	87
	Chapter IV: Neoklaudiopolis – the local level	92
	1. Introduction	92
	2. Civic institutions	95
	3. The social and private sphere	96
	4. Private associations	96
	5. The military sphere	97
	6. The administrative sphere	97
	7. The religious sphere	98
	8. Language	102
	9. Onomastics	104
	10. Citizenship – local and Roman	104
	11. The civic era	106
	12. Conclusion	107
	Chapter V: The provincialisation of Pontos: Sacrilege and slaughter	108
	1. Introduction	108
	2. Cities, fortresses and temple states	109
	3. Rebellion and reluctance – return to dynastic rule	118
	4. Not yet fit for Roman rule – Mark Antony’s reorganisation of Pontos	123
	5. King Polemon – the making of a pious dynasty	126
	6. Pythodoris – a wise woman and a skilled ruler	139
	7. Polemon II and the eclipse of the Pontic kingdom	163
	8. Pontos under Roman rule	165
	9. Imperial rule and imperial cult in the Pontic areas	166
	10. Pontic names	175
	11. The imperial cult and the pressure to conform	178
	Chapter VI: Mission complete	184
	Conclusion	188
	Appendix: The remaining six imperial oaths	190
	Literature	202
	Abbreviations	202
	Bibliography	202
	Indices	216
	Ancient personal names	216
	Modern personal names	217
	Places	218
	Subjects	220
	Main sources	222