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Notes from the Black Sea and Caucasus: Arrian, Phlegon and Flavian Inscriptions

Notes from the Black Sea and Caucasus: Arrian, Phlegon and Flavian Inscriptions NOTES FROM THE BLACK SEA AND CAUCASUS: ARRIAN, PHLEGON AND FLAVIAN INSCRIPTIONS DAVID BRAUND This paper has two related objectives. First, to explore some broad issues bearing on the north coast of the Black Sea under the Roman empire, with particular reference to Hadrian and Cotys II. Second, to clarify some key features of the historical geography of what may be considered the Roman frontier further east, in the Caucasus. In the course of these remarks I hope to exemplify a larger – and yet very simple – methodology by combining a concern for personal autopsy of the modern landscape with a rather different insistence on the importance of ancient perceptions of any region, as indicated especially by the extant ancient literary tradition. As to personal autopsy, I have done most of my Ž eldwork in areas seldom visited by western scholars and which have not produced (and often still do not produce) or not made available much in the way of maps for themselves, though recent political changes have greatly ameliorated the situation. Again and again I have found my own assumptions about the landscape, drawn as they were from published literature, ancient and modern, to be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia Brill

Notes from the Black Sea and Caucasus: Arrian, Phlegon and Flavian Inscriptions

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia , Volume 9 (3-4): 175 – Jan 1, 2003

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Brill
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0929-077X
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1570-0577
DOI
10.1163/157005703770961750
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NOTES FROM THE BLACK SEA AND CAUCASUS: ARRIAN, PHLEGON AND FLAVIAN INSCRIPTIONS DAVID BRAUND This paper has two related objectives. First, to explore some broad issues bearing on the north coast of the Black Sea under the Roman empire, with particular reference to Hadrian and Cotys II. Second, to clarify some key features of the historical geography of what may be considered the Roman frontier further east, in the Caucasus. In the course of these remarks I hope to exemplify a larger – and yet very simple – methodology by combining a concern for personal autopsy of the modern landscape with a rather different insistence on the importance of ancient perceptions of any region, as indicated especially by the extant ancient literary tradition. As to personal autopsy, I have done most of my Ž eldwork in areas seldom visited by western scholars and which have not produced (and often still do not produce) or not made available much in the way of maps for themselves, though recent political changes have greatly ameliorated the situation. Again and again I have found my own assumptions about the landscape, drawn as they were from published literature, ancient and modern, to be

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Published: Jan 1, 2003

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