Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia. By Raymond Van Dam. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 265; 1 map. $45.00.)

After an impressive trail of published articles in peer-reviewed journals and a book on the saints of Roman Gaul (1993), Van Dam offers in a trilogy a study of Roman rule, Greek culture, Christian family life and friendship in the Roman province of Cappadocia (modern Kayseri, Turkey). Whereas the first two volumes dealt with aspects of the Roman rule, classical culture (2002), and the conversion of the province to Christianity (2003), the third ...

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