Roman Corinth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Corinth write by Donald W. Engels. This book was released on 1990-05-29. Roman Corinth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the second century A.D., Corinth was the largest city in Roman Greece. A center of learning, culture, and commerce, it served as the capital of the senatorial province of Achaea and was the focus of apostle Paul's missionary activity. Donald Engels's important revisionist study of this ancient urban area is at once a detailed history of the Roman colony and a provocative socioeconomic analysis. With Corinth as an exemplar, Engels challenges the widely held view that large classical cities were consumer cities, innocent of the market forces that shape modern economies. Instead, he presents an alternative model—the "service city." Examining a wealth of archaelogical and literary evidence in light of central place theory, and using sound statistical techniques, Engels reconstructs the human geography of the Corinthia, including an estimate of the population. He shows that—given the amount of cultivatable land—rents and taxes levied onthe countryside could not have supported a highly populated city like Corinth. Neither could its inhabitants have supported themselves directly by farming. Rather, the city constituted a thriving market for domestic, regional, and overseas raw materials, agricultural products, and manufactured goods, at the same time satisfying the needs of those who plied the various land and sea routes that converged there. Corinth provided key governmental and judicial services to the province of Achaea, and its religious festivals, temples, and monuments attracted numerous visitors from all corners of the Roman world. In accounting for the large portion of residents who participated in these various areas outside of the traditional consumer model, Engels reveals the depth and sophistication of the economics of ancient cities. Roman Corinth is a much-needed critique of the currently dominant approach of ancient urbanism. It will be of crucial interest to scholars and students in classics, ancient history, and urban studies.
Corinth in Late Antiquity
Corinth in Late Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Corinth in Late Antiquity write by Amelia R. Brown. This book was released on 2018-02-22. Corinth in Late Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Community, Conflict, and the Eucharist in Roman Corinth
Community, Conflict, and the Eucharist in Roman Corinth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Community, Conflict, and the Eucharist in Roman Corinth write by Panayotis Coutsoumpos. This book was released on 2015-01-30. Community, Conflict, and the Eucharist in Roman Corinth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rich in content and meaning, Paul's letter to the Corinthians is an important element in the study of the social and theological issues of early Christian teachings. This new work outlines how the letter to Corinthians underscores the role of Pauline Christianity in shaping relationships within the Christian congregation and provides a unique picture of a new growing church in a Greco-Roman social environment.
Corinth: The First City of Greece
Corinth: The First City of Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Corinth: The First City of Greece write by Richard M. Rothaus. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Corinth: The First City of Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Week in the Life of Corinth
A Week in the Life of Corinth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Week in the Life of Corinth write by Ben Witherington III. This book was released on 2012-03-30. A Week in the Life of Corinth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this work of historical fiction, Ben Witherington III provides a one of kind window into the social and cultural context of Paul's ministry.
