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In the early fourth century, a lawyer and public figure from the Nile valley city of Hermopolis made a six-month business related journey to Antioch. The day to day details are preserved on papyrus documents and offer a remarkable record of this journey, covering everything from distances traveled to daily food purchases, from medicinal supplies to fees paid for services. In this book, the classicist and historian John Matthews translates these important documents and places them in the wider context of the social history of the Graeco-Roman world. The memoranda relating to Theophanes' journey are presented within a historical narrative that offers an array of revelations on diet, travel, social relations, and other fascinating topics. This book creates an unprecedented account of daily life in the years preceding Emperor Constantine's rise to power in the eastern provinces of the Roman empire.

HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Theophanes, --- Travel --- Middle East --- Social conditions. --- Theophanes, -- fl. 4th cent. -- Travel -- Middle East.. --- Middle East -- Social conditions.

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This volume contains the revised versions of lectures that were delivered by scholars from Germany, England, USA, Finland and, more recently, Russia to the first five international symposia on ancient oriental languages and cultures held between 1998 and 2004 at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Tartu, Estonia. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of specific problems of the history of religion and medicine, of linguistics and of the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Semites --- Civilization, Semitic --- Caucasian race --- Semitic civilization --- Religion --- Middle East --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Social conditions --- Semites - Religion - Congresses --- Civilization, Semitic - Congresses --- Middle East - Religion - Congresses --- Middle East - Social conditions - Congresses --- Mesopotamia (history. --- Semitic peoples (language). --- religion).