The Middle East under Rome

The Hellenistic legacy; The end of Seleucid Syria and the firts Roman rule; From Augustus to Trajan: creating a province; The crisis in Judea from Herod to Bar Kokhba; From Trajan to the Severi: Conquests and reorganization; Civic life and urban development during the Early empire; Rural life in the Early Empire; The urban economy in Roman Syria; Helenization and indigenous cultures; Pagans, Jews and Christians in Roman Syria in the Second and Third centuries; A time of trials.