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RUSSELL, T., Byzantium and the Bosporus. A Historical Study, from the Seventh Century BC until the Foundation of Constantinople. Oxford University Press, 2016. 320p. Hardback. Series: Oxford Classical Monographs. Byzantium is fast moving up both the political and the academic agenda. This is a city whose history we have to try to understand. Dr. Russell's approach is timely and entirely apposite. Istanbul cannot be investigated without understanding its relationship to water and to land -- a trope that begins at the start of the historical period in Byzantion. Both acute and expansive Byzantium and Bosporus combines robust original research with a fluid writing style. We learn of the significance of the Thracian Bosporus in helping to generate the economic, political and cultural character of the communities that lived along its edge. Enjoyable, erudite, eye-opening. Bettany Hughes, King's College London and University of Cambridge |a 02/09/2016 (Publisher's information). € 166.45 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780198790525