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Culture and society in later roman antioch : papers from a colloquium.
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ISBN: 184217102X Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford Oxbow


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Antioch in Syria : a history from coins (300 BCE-450 CE)
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ISBN: 1108938477 1108945635 110883714X 1108944876 1108940374 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Antioch in Syria critically reassesses this ancient city from its Seleucid foundation into Late Antiquity. Although Antioch's prominence is famous, Kristina M. Neumann newly exposes the gradations of imperial power and local agency mediated within its walls through a comprehensive study of the coins minted there and excavated throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. Patterns revealed through digital mapping and Exploratory Data Analysis serve as a significant index of spatial politics and the policies of the different authorities making use of the city. Evaluating the coins against other historical material reveals that Antioch's status was not fixed, nor the people passive pawns for external powers. Instead, as imperial governments capitalised upon Antioch's location and amenities, the citizens developed in their own distinct identities and agency. Antioch of the Antiochians must therefore be elevated from traditional narratives and static characterisations, being studied and celebrated for the dynamic polis it was.


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Antioch : a history
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ISBN: 9780367633042 9781138845244 1138845248 0367633043 9781315727608 1315727609 9781317540427 1317540425 9781317540410 1317540417 9781317540403 1317540409 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Routledge

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The Eagle of Zeus Arrives (303 BCE-64 BCE) -- Orientis Apex Pulcher : The Roman "Beautiful Crown of the East" in the making (64 BCE 192CE) -- From Capital to Crisis : Antioch in the Late Roman Empire (193-458 CE) -- Theoupolis, the City of God (458-638) -- Anṭākiya, Mother of the Frontier (638-969) -- The Byzantine Duchy of Antioch (969-1085) -- The Saljūqs : An Interlude (1084-1098) -- The Crusader Principality of Antioch (1098-1268) -- A Mamlūk Entrepot (1268-1516) -- Ottoman Antakya (1516-1918) -- A Frontier Town Once More (1920-2020). "This is a complete history of Antioch, one of the most significant major cities of the eastern Mediterranean and a crossroads for the Silk Road, from its foundation by the Seleucids, through Roman rule, the rise of Christianity, Islamic and Byzantine conquests, to the Crusades and beyond. Antioch has typically been treated as a city whose classical glory faded permanently amid a series of natural disasters and foreign invasions in the sixth and seventh centuries C.E. Such studies have obstructed the view of Antioch's fascinating urban transformations from classical to medieval to modern city and the processes behind these. Through its comprehensive blend of textual sources and new archaeological data reanalyzed from Princeton's 1930s excavations and recent discoveries, this book offers unprecedented insights into the complete history of Antioch, recreating the lives of the people who lived in it and focusing on the factors that affected them during the evolution of its remarkable cityscape. While Antioch's built environment is central, the book also utilizes landscape archaeological work to consider the city in relation to its hinterland, and numismatic evidence to explore its economics. The outmoded portrait of Antioch as a sadly perished classical city par excellence gives way to one in which it shines as brightly in its medieval Islamic, Byzantine, and Crusader incarnations. Antioch: A History offers a new portal to researching this long-lasting city and is also suitable for a wide variety of teaching needs, both undergraduate and graduate, in the fields of Classics, History, Urban Studies, Archaeology, Silk Road Studies, and Near Eastern/Middle Eastern Studies. Just as important, its clarity makes it attractive for, and accessible to, a general readership outside the framework of formal instruction"


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Antioch in Syria : a history from coins (300 BCE–450 CE)
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ISBN: 9781108837149 9781108938471 9781108940375 1108938477 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"Antioch in Syria critically reassesses this ancient city from its Seleucid foundation into Late Antiquity. Although Antioch's prominence is famous, Kristina Neumann newly exposes the gradations of imperial power and local agency mediated within its walls through a comprehensive study of the coins minted there and excavated throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. Patterns revealed through digital mapping and Exploratory Data Analysis serve as a significant index of spatial politics and the policies of the different authorities making use of the city. Evaluating the coins against other historical material reveals that Antioch's status was not fixed, nor the people passive pawns for external powers. Instead, as imperial governments capitalised upon Antioch's location and amenities, the citizens developed in their own distinct identities and agency. Antioch of the Antiochians must therefore be elevated from traditional narratives and static characterisations, being studied and celebrated for the dynamic polis it was"--

Christian Antioch : a study of early Christian thought in the East
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ISBN: 0521234255 0521094364 0511555342 9780521234252 Year: 1982 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book is a comprehensive survey of the history and, more particularly, of the thought of Antioch from the second to the eighth centuries of the Christian era. Dr Wallace-Hadrill traces the religious background of Antiochene Christianity and examines in detail aspects of its intellectual life: the exegesis of scripture, the interpretation of history, philosophy, and the doctrine of the nature of God as applied to an understanding of Christ and man's salvation. The community at Antioch stressed history and literalism, in self-conscious opposition to the tendency to allegorise that prevailed at Alexandria. While insisting on the divinity of Christ, they were equally adamant that no other doctrine should be allowed to compromise their central belief that Jesus was really human.


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The principality of Antioch and its frontiers in the twelfth century
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ISBN: 178204924X 1783271736 Year: 2017 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press,

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Situated in northern Syria, on the eastern-most frontier of Latin Christendom, the principality of Antioch was a medieval polity bordered by a host of rival powers, including the Byzantine Empire, theArmenian Christians of Cilicia, the rulers of the neighbouring Islamic world and even the other crusader states, the kingdom of Jerusalem and the counties of Edessa and Tripoli. Coupled with the numerous Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities who populated the region, Antioch's Frankish settlers - initially installed into power by the military successes of the First Crusade - thus faced numerous challenges to their survival.
This book examines how the ruling elites of the principality sought to manage these competing interests in order to maintain Antioch's existence during the troubled twelfth century, particularly following the death of Prince Bohemond II in 1130. His demise helped to spark renewed interest from Byzantium and the kingdom of Jerusalem, and came at a time of both Islamic resurgence under the Zengids of Aleppo and Mosul, as well as Armenian power growth under the Rupenids. An examination of Antioch's diplomatic and military endeavours, its internal power structures and its interaction with indigenous peoples can therefore help to reveal a great deal about how medieval Latins adapted to the demands of their frontiers.

Andrew Buck is an Associate Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, from where he received his PhD in 2014.

La tradition hellénique chez Libanios : thèse présentée devant l'Université de Paris IV - le 1 décembre 1984
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ISBN: 2251326251 9782251326252 Year: 1984 Volume: vol *94 Publisher: Lille: Paris: Atelier de reproduction des thèses Université de Lille III, Société d'édition Les Belles Lettres,


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Controlling contested places : late antique Antioch and the spatial politics of religious controversy
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ISBN: 9780520280359 0520280350 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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"From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in late antiquity fundamentally shaped their physical environment and thus the events that unfolded within it. Controlling Contested Places maps the city of Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) through the topographically sensitive vocabulary of cultural geography, demonstrating the critical role played by physical and rhetorical spatial contests during the tumultuous fourth century. Paying close attention to the manipulation of physical places, Christine Shepardson exposes some of the powerful forces that structured the development of religious orthodoxy and orthopraxy in the late Roman Empire. Theological claims and political support were not the only significant factors in determining which Christian communities gained authority around the Empire. Rather, Antioch's urban and rural places, far from being an inert backdrop against which events transpired, were ever-shifting sites of, and tools for, the negotiation of power, authority, and religious identity. This book traces the ways in which leaders like John Chrysostom, Theodoret, and Libanius encouraged their audiences to modify their daily behaviors and transform their interpretation of the world (and landscape) around them. Shepardson argues that examples from Antioch were echoed around the Mediterranean world, and similar types of physical and rhetorical manipulations continue to shape the politics of identity and perceptions of religious orthodoxy to this day"--

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