Antioch on the Orontes : History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture

by: De Giorgi, A.U.

Antioch on the Orontes
History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture
Editor: Andrea U. De Giorgi, Florida State University
Catherine Saliou; Stephen Batiuk; Boris Chrubasiki; Eduardo Garcia-Molina; Kevin Butcher; Grégoire Poccardi; Elizabeth M. Molacek; Carlos F. Noreña; Gunnar Brands, Andrea U. De Giorgi; Christiane Brasse; Mathias Döring; Eric Morvillez; Nicole L. Berlin, Amy C. Miranda; Alan M. Stahl; Marilena Casella; Andrea Pellizzari; Jorit Wintjes; Pawel Filipczak; Ari B. Finckelstein; Christine Shepardson; Peter Sarris; Carson Bay; Konstantinos Bozinis; Bernadette Cabouret-Laurioux; Wendy Mayer; Fréderic Alpi; Jordan Pickett; Merle Eisenberg; Lee Mordechai; Asa A. Eger

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.

Includes Graphs, maps, and chronicles of Antioch on the Orontes
Offers discussions and viewpoints from different disciplines, including history, visual culture, architecture, engineering, religion, and geology
Addresses the concept of ancient urban societies under stain

Table of Contents
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. Noreña
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.

Antioch on the Orontes : History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture

by: De Giorgi, A.U.

• ISBN-13: 9781108833998 / 978-1-108-83399-8
• ISBN-03: 1108833993 / 1-108-83399-3
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024