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the early fourth century, a lawyer and public figure from the Nile valley city of Hermopolis made a sixmonth 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 GraecoRoman 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 Constantines rise to power in the eastern provinces of the Roman empire.


Librarian Note: There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name, If adding books to this author, please use JohnMatthews, John F. Matthews, John M. Schiff Professor of Classics and History, came to Yale infrom the University of Oxford, from where he holds the degrees of MA and D.
Phil. , and where he for many years taught Greek and Roman History, He was successively University Lecturer, Reader and Professor ad hominem of Late Roman Studies, and Fellow of Queens College, In Julyhe received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Leicester, his home city in the United Kingdom, Professor Matthews research interests focus primarily on the social and cultural history of the later Roma Librarian Note: There is than one author in the Goodreads database with

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If adding books to this author, please use JohnMatthews, John F. Matthews, John M. Schiff Professor of Classics and History, came to Yale infrom the University of Oxford, from where he holds the degrees of MA and D.
Phil. , and where he for many years taught Greek and Roman History, He was successively University Lecturer, Reader and Professor ad hominem of Late Roman Studies, and Fellow of Queen's College, In Julyhe received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Leicester, his home city in the United Kingdom, Professor Matthews' research interests focus primarily on the social and cultural history of the later Roman period, He is the author of Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court, A, D., Political Life and Culture in Late Roman Societytwelve collected papers, The Roman Empire of Ammianus, Laying Down the Law a Study of the Theodosian Code, and most recently The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business and Daily Life in the Roman East Yale University Press,, the winner of theJames Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association as "the best book in English in any field of history prior to CE".
He is also co author, with Tim Cornell, of the widely translated Atlas of the Roman World, He has published many articles conference proceedings, ranging from the second century tax law of Palmyra to the career of the philosopher Boethius in the sixth, and is one of four contributors from the Department to the Blackwell Companion to the Roman Empire.
He is currently working on the early history of the city of Constantinople, He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and of the Royal Historical Society and the London Society of Antiquaries, He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, His wife, Veronika Grimm, is also a member of the faculty of the Department of Classics, source: sitelink sitelink.