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Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure (2015)

von Paul Veyne

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Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city, serving for centuries as a caravan stop for those crossing the Syrian Desert. It became a Roman province under Tiberius and served as the most powerful commercial center in the Middle East between the first and the third centuries CE. But when the citizens of Palmyra tried to break away from Rome, they were defeated, marking the end of the city's prosperity. The magnificent monuments from that earlier era of wealth, a resplendent blend of Greco-Roman architecture and local influences, stretched over  miles and were among the most significant buildings of the ancient world--until the arrival of ISIS. In 2015, ISIS fought to gain control of the area because it was home to a prison where many members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood had been held, and ISIS went on to systematically destroy the city and murder many of its inhabitants, including the archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad, the antiquities director of Palymra.  In this concise and elegiac book, Paul Veyne, one of Palymra's most important experts, offers a beautiful and moving look at the history of this significant lost city and why it was--and still is--important. Today, we can appreciate the majesty of Palmyra only through its pictures and stories, and this book offers a beautifully illustrated memorial that also serves as a lasting guide to a cultural treasure.… (mehr)
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How fortunate the first reviewer was to have visited Palmyra in Syria before its destruction by ISIS.

This is a wonderful, small book providing an introduction to a city and culture about which I knew nothing. The illustrations were vital to understanding the material in the chapters.

Although it is a translation, it is very readable. A map of the location of Palmyra would be a great addition to another edition.

In his Conclusion on p.85 Paul Veyne writes:

Yes, without a doubt, knowing, wanting to know, only one culture - one's own - is to be condemned to a life of suffocating sameness. ( )
  louis69 | Oct 11, 2018 |
"Palmyre. L'irremplaçable trésor" de Paul Veyne publié en hommage à l'antique cité syrienne bombardée et à son directeur des antiquités assassiné en août 2015 par Daech. Cet essai à la fois savant et vulgarisé, nous plonge au milieu de cette ville caravanière, parmi ses habitants, ses coutumes, ses conquêtes et sa religion. On peut cependant regretter que l'auteur n'ait pas approfondi son explication du saccage, mais il a sans doute souhaité ne pas s'aventurer hors de son rôle d'archéologue. "Les islamistes veulent manifester que les musulmans ont une autre culture que la notre, une culture qui leur est propre. Ce n'est pas de l'envie, de la jalousie pour la supériorité de l'étranger, mais le désir de prouver et de se prouver qu'ils ne sont pas comme nous, qu'ils sont eux-mêmes."
Un texte lu en souvenir de mon merveilleux voyage dans ce pays en automne 2002. ( )
  Steph. | Jan 3, 2016 |
Come prevedibile a seguito dei noti e tristi eventi che ormai da anni si verificano nei paesi del vicino oriente e dei quali il ricco patrimonio storico ed archeologico siriano sembra comparire tra le vittime più illustri, tra gli scaffali delle librerie ha iniziato a comparire una serie di monografie destinate a fornire ad un vasto pubblico di interessati al mondo antico gli elementi necessari per comprendere l’inestimabile valore storico e culturale delle antichità in pericolo.

Si comprende facilmente come all’indomani delle notizie relative alle distruzioni inflitte alla città carovaniera di Palmyra, una delle gemme più preziose del patrimonio culturale siriano, e della sua successiva liberazione, ad opera delle truppe governative ed a seguito della risonanza che tali fatti hanno avuto in tutto il mondo, l’antica città siriana patrimonio dell’UNESCO sia stata oggetto di un rinnovato interesse presso il grande pubblico, interesse al quale studiosi e case editrici hanno prontamente risposto con la pubblicazione di numerosi e diversi studi sul tema.

È questo il caso del volumetto Palmyra: Requiem für eine Stadt, traduzione tedesca (a cura di Anna Lube e Wolf Heinrich Lube) dell’originale francese dal più sobrio titolo di Palmyre, l’irremplaçable trésor (2015), di Paul Veyne. L’autore è uno studioso che non ha bisogno, almeno tra gli specialisti, di presentazioni: professore Emerito al Collège de France, storico ed archeologo, prolifico saggista, ampio conoscitore del mondo classico e uomo di sconfinata cultura, Veyne si è occupato durante la sua pluridecennale ed illustre carriera di questioni e problematiche di ampio respiro riguardanti il mondo antico spesso condizionando il dibattito storico in modo fondamentale.
 

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Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city, serving for centuries as a caravan stop for those crossing the Syrian Desert. It became a Roman province under Tiberius and served as the most powerful commercial center in the Middle East between the first and the third centuries CE. But when the citizens of Palmyra tried to break away from Rome, they were defeated, marking the end of the city's prosperity. The magnificent monuments from that earlier era of wealth, a resplendent blend of Greco-Roman architecture and local influences, stretched over  miles and were among the most significant buildings of the ancient world--until the arrival of ISIS. In 2015, ISIS fought to gain control of the area because it was home to a prison where many members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood had been held, and ISIS went on to systematically destroy the city and murder many of its inhabitants, including the archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad, the antiquities director of Palymra.  In this concise and elegiac book, Paul Veyne, one of Palymra's most important experts, offers a beautiful and moving look at the history of this significant lost city and why it was--and still is--important. Today, we can appreciate the majesty of Palmyra only through its pictures and stories, and this book offers a beautifully illustrated memorial that also serves as a lasting guide to a cultural treasure.

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