Corinth, the first city of Greece : an urban history of late antique cult and religion / by Richard M. Rothaus.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9789004301498 (electronic book)
9789004109223 (print)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0582
Yazar
Rothaus, Richard M.
Yayın Bilgisi
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (x, 173 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Dizi
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 139
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-170) and index.
İçindekiler Notu
Preliminary material -- RECONSIDERING LATE ANTIQUE RELIGION -- THE LATE ANTIQUE CITY -- BROKEN TEMPLES -- KENCHREAI, EASTERN PORT OF CORINTH -- ISTHMIA AND THE ISTHMIAN GAMES -- CHRISTIANIZING THE CITY -- IMAGES AND POWER -- NYMPHS AND ANGELS -- CONCLUSION -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE -- A GAZETTEER OF THE LATE ROMAN KORINTHIA -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Christianity and other religions __ Greek.
Church history __ Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Antiquities. __ fast
Christianity. __ fast
Church history __ Primitive and early church. __ fast
Greeks __ Religion. __ fast
Interfaith relations. __ fast
Religion. __ fast
Corinth (Greece) __ Religion.
Corinth (Greece) __ Antiquities.
Corinth (Greece) __ Church history.
Greece __ Corinth. __ fast
Church history. __ fast
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