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.
Drawing on a vast body of modern research, this volume offers an archaeological and historical overview of Antioch from its origins through late antiquity. It explores the city's built environment, the institutions that shaped it in fundamental ways, intellectual currents, and ecological setting.
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Offers an archaeological and historical overview of Antioch from its origins through late antiquity.
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. Noreńa;
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.
Andrea U. De Giorgi is Professor of Classical Studies at Florida State University. A scholar of Roman urbanism, he has directed archaeological projects in Italy, Israel, Turkey, Syria, Georgia, and Jordan. He is the author of Ancient Antioch: From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and co-author of Antioch: A History (Routledge, 2021), which won the Ernest Wright Book Award. He currently manages the publication of the Antioch collections stored at the Princeton University Art Museum.
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