Greco-Roman sources

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Greco-Roman sources are ancient historical, literary, and scholarly texts produced in the Greek and Roman worlds that document and interpret the peoples, cultures, and events of the Mediterranean and Near East.

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Label Occurrences
Greco-Roman historiography 1
Greco-Roman sources canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient textual tradition
historical source corpus
literary corpus
primary source material
contrastedWith Jewish Second Temple literature
Near Eastern primary sources
early Christian writings
documents Near Eastern cultures
Near Eastern peoples
cultures of the Mediterranean
economic life
military campaigns
peoples of the Mediterranean
political events
religious practices
social structures
hasPerspectiveBias Greco-Roman cultural viewpoint
includesGenre biography
drama
epic poetry
ethnography
geographical work
historiography
inscription
legal text
lyric poetry
papyrus document
philosophical treatise
religious text
rhetorical treatise
interprets barbarian peoples
foreign cultures
language Ancient Greek
Latin
oftenCharacterizedBy ethnocentric descriptions
imperial perspectives
producedInRegion Greek world
Mediterranean Basin
surface form: Mediterranean basin

Roman world
timePeriod Classical antiquity
Hellenistic period
Roman Empire
Roman Republic
usedBy ancient historians
archaeologists
biblical scholars
classical historians
philologists
usedFor reconstructing ancient history
studying Greco-Roman law
studying Mediterranean religions
studying ancient literature
studying ancient philosophy

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Idumaean termUsage Greco-Roman sources
Life of Publicola literaryTradition Greco-Roman sources
this entity surface form: Greco-Roman historiography