Illustrations ixPreface xiiiR. Bruce HitchnerNorth Africa Maps xvList of Abbreviations xxivNotes on Contributors xxvPart I Setting the Stage 11 The Historiography of North Africa in Antiquity: An Overview 3R. Bruce Hitchner2 Archaeology 9David L. Stone3 The Environment of North Africa 24Philippe LeveauPart II Africa in the First Millennium BCE 394 Libyan Culture and Society 41Joan Sanmartí5 Beyond Barbarians: The Garamantes of the Libyan Sahara 64David J. Mattingly6 Punic Carthage 81Iván Fumadó Ortega7 Africa under the Roman Republic 101Matthew S. HobsonPart III The Roman Period (146 BCE-439 CE) 1178 African Rome. The City of Carthage from its Roman (Re-)foundation to the End of the Byzantine Period 119Ralf Bockmann9 Roman Imperial Administration 142Jesper Carlsen10 The Army 152Patrice Faure11 Roman North African Urbanism 173J. Andrew Dufton and Elizabeth Fentress12 Rural Settlement, Land Use, and Economy 202Mariette de Vos Raaijmakers13 The African Economy: The Ceramic Evidence 220Michel Bonifay14 Prose Literature 233Stéphanie Guédon15 Architecture and Art 247Niccolò Mugnai16 Transforming Religion under the Roman Empire: The Case of Africa 285Matthew M. McCarty17 Society and Culture in Late Roman Africa 299Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira18 The Mauri in Late Antiquity 317Andy Merrills19 Imperial and Late Latin Poetry from North Africa 332Helen Kaufmann20 Christian North Africa in Antiquity 354Anna LeonePart IV From the Vandal Kingdom to the Arab Conquest (439-711 CE) 37321 The Vandals 375Jonathan P. Conant22 The Byzantine Period 391Andy Merrills23 Late Roman, Vandal, and Byzantine Coinage in Africa 410Cécile Morrisson24 The Arab Conquests and the End of Ancient Africa? 424Corisande FenwickIndex 439
R. Bruce Hitchner is Professor of Classical Studies and International Relations, and Chair of Classical Studies at Tufts. He has directed major archaeological projects in both Tunisia and France. His research and scholarship is focused on the economy and society of the Roman World, and he is also a policy specialist and author of work on contemporary Bosnia and the Western Balkans.