THE PRESENCE OF CILICIA AND ITS TOWNSIN THE GREEK WRITERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE(I-II Cent. A.D.)

Paolo DESIDERI

Makale detayları

THE PRESENCE OF CILICIA AND ITS TOWNSIN THE GREEK WRITERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE(I-II Cent. A.D.)

Yazarlar:

Paolo DESIDERI

Yayıncı:

Mersin University

Dergi:

OLBA 2003 Issue 8, pp.123-144

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2003

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000532184

Sıklık:

Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-6558

pISSN:

1301-7667

Özet:

 

Two and a half years ago, on the occasion of the second meeting on
 Cicilia which was held in Istanbul1, I had the opportunity of once again
 examining two of the most interesting speeches of the Bithynian sophist
 Dio of Prusa2. These speeches, which were delivered to the general assembly
 of the Cilician metropolis Tarsus, offer the possibility of tracing the
 elements of the social and political situation of this great town and of the
 territory of the Roman province of Cilicia, in the period from the Flavians
 to the first years of the reign of Trajan. From this point of view, no other
 written text of the first to the beginning of the third centuries of our era
 can be compared with these Dionean lÒgoi, which provide first hand
 information about the internal enmities between citizens and non-citizens,
 the external feuds with other towns of the province, or the troubled
 relations with the Roman governors3. In any case, there are, in this same
 period, many other “literary” texts –in the broad sense of texts preserved
 thanks to a manuscript tradition, besides any other consideration– which
 can be profitably scrutinised in order to obtain more evidence about our
 region, its towns, and its geographical and environmental elements.
 Therefore, today I’d like to propose some reflections upon a selection of
 this kind of texts, excluding in particular the Christian ones (since one of
 our colleagues is going to speak on Paulus of Tarsus), with the aim of
 recovering the idea(s) of Cilicia of which each text can be considered the
 bearer. Indeed, none of these testimonies have the immediacy of Dio’s
 speeches, which build up a vivid, though biased, picture of a dramatic
 moment in the history of the region. On the contrary, they are all embedded
 –so to say– in some particular context, which will have to be filteredin
 order to arrive at the result we are interested in.

Makale detayları

THE PRESENCE OF CILICIA AND ITS TOWNSIN THE GREEK WRITERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE(I-II Cent. A.D.)

Yazarlar: Paolo DESIDERI

Yayıncı: Mersin University

Dergi: OLBA 2003 Issue 8, pp.123-144

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 10/2003

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000532184

Sıklık: Yıllık

eISSN: 2687-6558

pISSN: 1301-7667

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Paolo DESIDERI

Yayıncı:

Mersin University

Dergi:

OLBA 2003 Issue 8, pp.123-144

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2003

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000532184

Sıklık:

Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-6558

pISSN:

1301-7667