This volume assembles state-of-the-art scholarship on Antioch, the most important fourth century imperial residence, from the perspective of ancient history, theology, Church history, and archaeology, including studies on Libanius, the emperor Julian, Ammianus Marcellinus, and John Chrysostom.
During the fourth century, Antioch on the Orontes was the most important imperial residence in the Roman Empire and a »hot-bed« of intellectual and religious activity. The writings of men such as Libanius, the emperor Julian, Ammianus Marcellinus, John Chrysostom, Theodoret, and many others, provide a density of written sources that is nearly unmatched in antiquity, while the archaeological evidence of the city's evolution is much harder to reconstruct. This volume assembles state-of-the-art scholarship on these ancient authors within the context of recent archaeological work to offer a rare comprehensive view of this late Roman city.
Table of contents:
Susanna Elm: Introduction
The Many Layers of Antioch: Topography
Gunnar Brands: Preservation, Historicization, Change: Antioch A.D. 350-450 -
Catherine Saliou: Libanius's Antiochicus, Mirror of a City? Antioch in 356, Praise and Reality -
Johannes Hahn: Metropolis, Emperors, and Games: The Secularization of the Antiochene Olympics in Late Antiquity
The Many Layers of Antioch: The Imperial City
Jorit Wintjes: Die unbekannte Metropole - Antiochien und die römische Armee -
Claudia Tiersch: A Dispute - About Hellenism? Julian and the Citizens of Antioch -
Gavin Kelly: Ammianus, Valens, and Antioch -
Susanna Elm: Death and the Tigris: Does Later Roman Historiography Present an Antiochene Agenda? (Eutropius and Festus)
Visions of Antioch Painted with Words
Jan R. Stenger: Healing Place or Abode of the Demons? Libanius's and Chrysostom's Rewriting of the Apollo Sanctuary at Daphne -
Edward Watts: Old Age in the Antioch of the 390s: A Reappraisal of Libanius's Last Collection of Letters -
Christine Shepardson: Bodies on Display: Deploying the Saints in the Religious Competitions of Late Antique Antioch -
Blake Leyerle: Imagining Antioch or The Fictional Space of Alleys and Markets
The Antiochenes - Creating Communities
Jaclyn Maxwell: The Voices of the People of Antioch in John Chrysostom's Sermons and Libanius's Orations -
Rudolf Brändle: Die Reden
Adversus Iudaeos (386/387) von Johannes Chrysostomus im Kontext der multikulturellen Metropole Antiochien -
Adam M. Schor: Instituting Clerical Expertise: The
Apostolic Constitutions in Socio-Cultural Context -
Yannis Papadogiannakis: Prescribing Emotions, Constructing Emotional Community in John Chrysostom's Antioch -
Wendy Mayer: A Son of Hellenism: Viewing John Chrysostom's Anti-Intellectualism through the Lens of Antiochene
Paideia -
Silke-Petra Bergjan: Konkurrenz unter den Nizänern. Die Christen Antiochiens im 4. Jahrhundert
