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Corinth in Late Antiquity: A Greek, Roman and Christian City

door Amelia Robertson Brown

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Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis in Roman Greece and, later, a key focal point for early Christianity. In late antiquity, Corinthians recognised new Christian authorities; adopted novel rites of civic celebration and decoration; and destroyed, rebuilt and added to the city's ancient landscape and monuments. Drawing on evidence from ancient literary sources, extensive archaeological excavations and historical records, Amelia Brown here surveys this period of urban transformation, from the old Agora and temples to new churches and fortifications. Influenced by the methodological advances of urban studies, Brown demonstrates the many ways Corinthians responded to internal and external pressures by building, demolishing and repurposing urban public space, thus transforming Corinthian society, civic identity and urban infrastructure. In a departure from isolated textual and archaeological studies, she connects this process to broader changes in metropolitan life, contributing to the present understanding of urban experience in the late antique Mediterranean.… (meer)
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A remarkably coherent book dealing with a very complex Archaeological site. Corinth had a Greek beginning, then the classical city was sacked by the Romans in 144 BCE, and then colonized as a Roman city in the time of Julius Caesar. After two hundred years,the place was described by the great Classical travel writer, Pausanias, providing a sort of anchor point. Dr. Brown, taking that description as a starting point, tries to describe the transition of that city into the Byzantine city that was then passed on into the hands of the Fourth Crusaders and the Ottoman empire. Since the excavations began in the 1800's, the site also merits an appendix on the archaeological methodology of the excavations on the site. The final chapter, summing up the archaeological evidence for the social transformations of the period 300 to 600 CE, is a very interesting piece of analysis. A good book for the student as well as the interested reader. of the period. Sadly, the mapping is not particularly clear, and could have been expanded considerably. ( )
  DinadansFriend | Mar 18, 2019 |
A couple of year ago, I read Amelia R. Brown’s doctoral thesis The City of Corinth and Urbanism in Late Antique Greece ... with great enthusiasm and, since then, have impatiently awaited the ensuing monograph. This book certainly does not disappoint. It is an all-encompassing and thorough overview of the late antique cityscape of Corinth that pays attention to all buildings, old and new, present or built between AD 300 and 600 and traces their development throughout this period. Its main body—an introduction, eight easily navigable thematic chapters and conclusion—is followed by two appendices, one summarizing the pertinent epigraphic evidence and one giving an overview of all archaeological activities carried out on site since 1886 until the present day. The book, moreover, has a bibliography of more than 60 pages.
 
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Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis in Roman Greece and, later, a key focal point for early Christianity. In late antiquity, Corinthians recognised new Christian authorities; adopted novel rites of civic celebration and decoration; and destroyed, rebuilt and added to the city's ancient landscape and monuments. Drawing on evidence from ancient literary sources, extensive archaeological excavations and historical records, Amelia Brown here surveys this period of urban transformation, from the old Agora and temples to new churches and fortifications. Influenced by the methodological advances of urban studies, Brown demonstrates the many ways Corinthians responded to internal and external pressures by building, demolishing and repurposing urban public space, thus transforming Corinthian society, civic identity and urban infrastructure. In a departure from isolated textual and archaeological studies, she connects this process to broader changes in metropolitan life, contributing to the present understanding of urban experience in the late antique Mediterranean.

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