Imperia sine fine? The Roman-Parthian frontier zone as conflict and contact area from the late 1st to the early 3rd c. A.D.

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• 批准号: 396777136
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Timo Stickler
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Altertumswissenschaften
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/396777136?language=en
• 关键词: Imperia; sine; fine; Roman; Parthian

The external border of Rome in the Near East has in the past often aroused the attention of researchers. The scientific pursuit of this topic has been mostly shaped by three aspects: First, the military aspect was clearly central; second, the topic was only considered from the Roman point of view; and third, research emphasis was time-wise clearly on Late Antiquity.Against this backdrop, this project targets the systematic examination of the frontier zone in the Near East during the period of Vespasianus or Vologeses I. about 70 AD to Severus Alexander or the downfall of the monarchy of the Arsacids about 230 AD. This temporal limitation seems sensible because it corresponds to a historically coherent epoch. Next to the border security of the empires, especially the political, cultural and economic changes in this frontier zone between the Zagrus Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, resulting of the collision of two empires, are to be analysed from a local perspective. This examination should show that the region was more often shaped by peaceful relationships than by the often discussed conflicts between the empires. The frontier zone is supposed to be considered and represented consistently from different perspectives as a in many ways independent area of exchange, trade, cultural contacts and political relationships of local and regional actors. The different types of sources, the Greek-Latin tradition, the oriental literary traditions from the Syrian-Mesopotamian cultural area and Iran, the documentary sources and the archaeological evidence of the military facilities and the Near Eastern cultural centres in the frontier zone will be analysed in collaboration with an interdisciplinary workgroup of experts from Jena and also from other countries. In doing so, the individual steps of the examination are supposed to expose two contrary aspects: On the one hand, both empires shaped their peripheries during the considered timeframe through power-political, juridical and military parameters, on the other hand, the area was on both sides of the border moulded by local and regional forces as a connected cultural area sui generis. The forces of the centre and those of the periphery didn't always align, but they both exercised decisive influence on the frontier zone. The systematic examination of the reciprocal interaction of both factors promises a deeper understanding of the local history but also of the bigger historical developments.

近东罗马的外部边界在过去常常引起研究者的关注。对这一课题的科学研究主要受三个方面的影响：第一，军事方面明显处于中心地位;第二，仅从罗马人的角度考虑这一课题;第三，研究重点明显集中在时间上的古代晚期。在此背景下，本项目旨在对维斯帕西亚努斯或沃洛盖塞一世时期近东的边境地区进行系统研究。大约公元70年到塞维鲁亚历山大或大约公元230年阿尔萨斯王朝的垮台。这种时间限制似乎是合理的，因为它对应于一个历史连贯的时代。除了帝国的边境安全，特别是在Zagrus山脉和地中海之间的边境地区的政治，文化和经济变化，导致两个帝国的碰撞，将从当地的角度进行分析。这一研究应该表明，该地区更经常是由和平关系而不是经常讨论的帝国之间的冲突所塑造的。边境地区应该从不同的角度来考虑和代表，作为一个在许多方面独立的交流、贸易、文化接触和地方和区域行为者政治关系的地区。将与来自耶拿和其他国家的跨学科专家小组合作，分析不同类型的资料来源、希腊-拉丁传统、叙利亚-美索不达米亚文化区和伊朗的东方文学传统、文献资料来源以及边境地区军事设施和近东文化中心的考古证据。在这样做的过程中，研究的各个步骤应该暴露两个相反的方面：一方面，两个帝国在所考虑的时间框架内通过权力政治，司法和军事参数塑造了他们的周边地区，另一方面，该地区在边界两侧由地方和区域力量塑造为一个独特的文化区域。中心和边缘的力量并不总是一致的，但他们都对边境地区施加了决定性的影响。对这两个因素的相互作用的系统考察，不仅有助于更深入地了解当地历史，而且有助于更大的历史发展。