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Corinth : The First City of Greece : An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion

by: Rothaus, R.M.

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Category: Mythology / Ancient Religion
Code: 5758
ISBN-13: 9789004109223 / 978-90-04-10922-3
ISBN-10: 9004109226 / 90-04-10922-6
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Publication Date: 2000
Publication Place: Leiden
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 174
Book Condition: New
Comments: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 139 / Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume: 139

Corinth: The First City of Greece
An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion
Series:
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume: 139
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
This book addresses cult and religion in the city of Corinth from the 4th to 7th centuries of our era. The work incorporates and synthesizes all available evidence, literary, archaeological and other.
The interaction and conflict between Christian and non-Christian activity is placed into its urban context and seen as simultaneously existing and overlapping cultural activity. Late antique religion is defined as cult-based rather than doctrinally-based, and thus this volume focuses not on what people believed, but rather what they did.
An emphasis on cult activity reveals a variety of types of interaction between groups, ranging from confrontational events at dilapidated polytheist cult sites, to full polysemous and shared cult activity at the so-called "Fountain of the Lamps". Non-Christian traditions are shown to have been recognized and viable through the sixth century. The tentative conclusion is drawn that a clear definition of "pagan" and "Christian" begins at an urban level with the Christian re-monumentalization of Corinth with basilicas. The disappearance of "pagan" cult is best attributed to the development of a new city socially and physically based in Christianity, rather than any purely "religious" development.


Preliminary material
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: i–x

RECONSIDERING LATE ANTIQUE RELIGION
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 1–7

THE LATE ANTIQUE CITY
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 8–31

BROKEN TEMPLES
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 32–63

KENCHREAI, EASTERN PORT OF CORINTH
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 64–83

ISTHMIA AND THE ISTHMIAN GAMES
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 84–92

CHRISTIANIZING THE CITY
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 93–104

IMAGES AND POWER
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 105–125

NYMPHS AND ANGELS
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 126–134

CONCLUSION
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 135–140

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 141–150

A GAZETTEER OF THE LATE ROMAN KORINTHIA
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 151–155

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 156–170

INDEX
Author: Richard M. Rothaus
Pages: 171–173
 
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Corinth : The First City of Greece : An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion

by: Rothaus, R.M.

  • ISBN-13: 9789004109223 / 978-90-04-10922-3
  • ISBN-03: 9004109226 / 90-04-10922-6
  • E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2000

Price: 85,00 EURO

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