Antioch on the Orontes (eBook, PDF)

History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture
Redaktion: De Giorgi, Andrea U. (Florida State University)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence spanned centuries, from its Seleucid foundation to the Islamic conquest and beyond. This volume offers an archaeological and historical overview of Antioch from its origins through late antiquity. Drawing on a vast body of modern research, it explores the city's built environment, the institutions that shaped it in fundamental ways, intellectual currents, and ecological setting. Significantly, analysis of Antioch's defining ecology is incorporated into accounts of imperial building programs, religious rifts, and the agency of the local community. The study also foregrounds the cultural responses to the environmental downturns and disasters that have continually wreaked havoc on the city. At its center is the Antiochene population, whose fierce determination enabled the city to overcome repeated episodes of desolation and destruction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781108996303
• Artikelnr.: 72476158

Inhaltsangabe

I. Beginnings: 1. The History of Antioch: written sources. A survey
Catherine Saliou; 2. The Geomorphology of the Greater Antioch Region
Stephen Batiuk; 3. Seleucid Antioch: from Colony to Capital Boris
Chrubasiki; 4. Seleucia Pieria in the Seleucid Period Eduardo
Garcia-Molina; 5. The Antioch mint: from Seleucus to the Roman Period Kevin
Butcher; 6. Antioch and its Hellenistic Monuments Grégoire Poccardi; 7.
Antioch's Visual Culture and its Hellenistic Past Elizabeth M. Molacek; II.
The Making of a Capital: 8. Antioch as Provincial Capital Carlos F. Noreña;
9. Building Programs and Natural Disasters: the Archaeology of Roman and
Late Antique Antioch Gunnar Brands and Andrea U. De Giorgi; 10. The City
Walls of Antioch: How Many? Christiane Brasse; 11. Powerful springs and
dangerous torrents on unsafe ground: The hydraulic engineering buildings of
Antioch and Seleucia Pieria Mathias Döring; 12. Housing in Daphne: domestic
architecture in the making Eric Morvillez; 13. The Antioch Mosaics:
History, Chronology, and Theory Nicole L. Berlin and Amy C. Miranda; 14.
Coinage of and in Antioch in the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Periods
Alan M. Stahl; III. The People of Antioch: 15. Eighteen Women in Imperial
Antioch Marilena Casella; 16. The Middle Classes in 4th-Century AD Antioch:
Tradesmen and Craftsmen in the Testimonies of Libanius and John Chrysostom
Andrea Pellizzari; 17. Antioch - a military metropolis? Jorit Wintjes; 18.
Violence in Antioch Pawel Filipczak; 19. Antiochene Riots against Jews in
Malalas' Chronicle Ari B. Finckelstein; 20. Speaking of Jews: Late Antique
Antioch's Shifting Anti-Jewish Rhetoric Christine Shepardson; 21. Antioch
and the Political Economy of Empire in the Age of Justinian Peter Sarris;
IV. Religion: 22. The First Christians of Antioch Carson Bay; 23. Christian
Antioch. A Portrait of the Bishops of the Local Church Konstantinos
Bozinis; 24. Julian in Antioch Bernadette Cabouret-Laurioux; 25. The
Churches of Antioch in the life of the City Wendy Mayer; 26. Who is Jesus
Christ? Theological Controversies in Antioch (4th to 6th Century CE)
Fréderic Alpi; V. Crises and Resilience: 27. Earthquakes and State
Responses at Antioch: Hellenistic to Early Byzantine Jordan Pickett; 28.
Disasters and Divine Wrath: Antioch in the Homilies and Histories of Late
Antiquity Merle Eisenberg; 29. Infectious Disease and its Repercussions in
Sixth-Century Antioch Lee Mordechai; 30. Memory and the city: Reflections
from the Post-Interesting on Islamic Antioch Asa A. Eger.