Mark W. Graham

Grove City College, History, Faculty Member

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I am a professor of ancient history with research interests in Late Antiquity, Roman frontiers, Ancient Empires, and the historiography of Antiquity.
Address: Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States

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Books by Mark W. Graham

Ancient empires: from mesopotamia to the rise of islam

by Eric H Cline and Mark W. Graham

Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient N... more Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity, and the early Muslim period. Taking a focused and thematic approach, it aims to provoke a discussion of an explicit set of themes supplemented by the reading of ancient sources. By focusing on empires and imperialism as well as modes of response and resistance, it is relevant to current discussions about order, justice, and freedom. The book ...

Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam

by Eric H Cline and Mark W. Graham

Papers by Mark W. Graham

News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire

Prior to the third century A.D., two broad Roman conceptions of frontiers proliferated and compet... more Prior to the third century A.D., two broad Roman conceptions of frontiers proliferated and competed: an imperial ideology of rule without limit coexisted with very real and pragmatic attempts to define and defend imperial frontiers. But from about A.D. 250-500, there was a basic shift in mentality, as news from and about frontiers began to portray a more defined Roman world—a world with limits—allowing a new understanding of frontiers as territorial and not just as divisions of people. This concept, previously unknown in the ancient world, brought with it a new consciousness, which soon spread to cosmology, geography, myth, sacred texts, and prophecy. The “frontier consciousness” produced a unified sense of Roman identity that transcended local identities and social boundaries throughout the later Empire. Approaching Roman frontiers with the aid of media studies as well as anthropological and sociological methodologies, Mark W. Graham chronicles and documents this significant transi...

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