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Thomas Russell

Byzantium and the Bosporus

A Historical Study, from the Seventh Century BC until the Foundation of Constantinople

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In ad 330 the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. Its later history is well known, yet comparatively little is known about the city before it became Constantinople and then Istanbul. Although it was just a minor Greek polis located on the northern fringes of Hellenic culture, surrounded by hostile Thracian tribes and denigrated by one ancient wit as the 'armpit of Greece',Byzantium did nevertheless possess one unique advantage - control of the Bosporus strait. This highly strategic waterway links the Aegean to the Black Sea, thereby conferring on the city th… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-250776-1
  • EAN: 9780192507761
  • Produktnummer: 29057572
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 17'916 KB
  • Abbildungen: 13 black-and-white illustrations

Über den Autor


Thomas Russell earned his doctorate at St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 2013, and is now a teacher of Classics.

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