Corinth: The First City of Greece

An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-10922-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 139, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 407 g

Reihe: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World

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.

Zielgruppe

Corinth, the First City of Greece will be of interest to researchers and students in the religious life of Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Early Middle Ages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rothaus, Richard M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Über Autor(innen)

Richard M. Rothaus, Ph.D. (1993), Ohio State University, is Assistant Professor of History, St. Cloud State University, and Director of the Archaeological Computing Laboratory at the same university. He is also Assistant Director of the Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia, Greece.