Urban development and regional identity in the eastern Roman provinces, 50 BC-AD 250 : Aphrodisias, Ephesos, Athens, Gerasa /
: Author's revised and updated thesis. : xvii, 273 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm : Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-261) and index. : 9788763526067
Hellenic religion and Christianization. c. 370-529 /
:
This work discusses the decline of Greek religion and the christianization of town and countryside in the eastern Roman Empire between the death of Julian the Apostate and the laws of Justinian the Great against paganism, c. 370-529. It examines such questions as the effect of the laws against sacrifice and sorcery, temple conversions, the degradation of pagan gods into daimones , the christianization of rite, and the social, political and economic background of conversion to Christianity. Several local contexts are examined in great detail: Gaza, Athens, Alexandria, Aphrodisias, central Asia Minor, northern Syria, the Nile basin, and the province of Arabia. It lays particular emphasis on the criticism of epigraphy, legal evidence, and hagiographic texts, and traces the demographic growth of Christianity and the chronology of this process in select local contexts. It also seeks to understand the behavioral patterns of conversion.
:
1 online resource (xvi, 344 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004276772 :
0927-7633 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The fabric of cities : aspects of urbanism, urban topography and society in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome /
:
The Fabric of Cities presents an interdisciplinary collection of articles on urbanism in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome, which focuses on the social dimension of cities' topographical features. The contributions of this book offer investigations of neighbourhoods, city gates, streets, temples and palaces drawing on textual and archaeological sources as well as art. The topics treated in this work encompass the diverse functions of public and marginal spaces in Mesopotamian cities and Rome, the role of agency in the development of Babylonian neighbourhoods, the relationship between public and private in Assyrian palaces, the connection between political strategies and temple building in Sumerian literary texts, and the communicative uses of language in Classical Greek texts to talk about urban space.
:
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004262348
Moving across borders : foreign relations, religion, and cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean /
: Based on the International Conference "Foreign Relations and Diplomacy in the Ancient World : Egypt, Greece, Near East", organized by the University of the Aegean, Dept. of Mediterranean Studies, Dec. 3-5, 2004, Rhodes, Greece. : xxii, 369 pages : Illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789042918719 : Nabil
Von Magna Graecia nach Asia Minor : Festschrift für Linda-Marie Günther zum 65. Geburtstag /
:
Von Magna Graecia nach Asia Minor' ? der Titel ist Programm: 23 Beiträge von renommierten Althistorikern und Archäologen spiegeln anlässlich des 65. Geburtstages der Althistorikerin Linda-Marie Günther die vielfältigen Interessen der Jubilarin wider. Mit besonderem Fokus auf der griechischen Geschichte, von der Archaik bis in die Kaiserzeit, greift die Festschrift zentrale Themen von Günthers Forschung und Lehre auf. 0Aspekte der Ikonographie antiker Münzen, die Günther besonders am Herzen liegt, werden ebenso bearbeitet wie epigraphische Quellen und Probleme. Die antike Historiographie, auch dies ein Steckenpferd der Jubilarin, ist Gegenstand mehrerer Beiträge. Untersuchungen zu genuin archäologischen Fragen und zur antiken Lebenswelt reflektieren ihre fächerübergreifenden Interessen.
:
Bibliography of Linda-Marie Günther. :
xxiv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9783447109079
3447109076 :
1613-5628 ;