Corinth in Contrast

Studies in Inequality
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-26186-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

n Corinth in Contrast, archaeologists, historians, art historians, classicists, and New Testament scholars examine the stratified nature of socio-economic, political, and religious interactions in the city from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. The volume challenges standard social histories of Corinth by focusing on the unequal distribution of material, cultural, and spiritual resources. Specialists investigate specific aspects of cultural and material stratification such as commerce, slavery, religion, marriage and family, gender, and art, analyzing both the ruling elite of Corinth and the non-elite Corinthians who made up the majority of the population. This approach provides insight into the complex networks that characterized every ancient urban center and sets an agenda for future studies of Corinth and other cities rule by Rome.

Autoren/Hrsg.

J Friesen, Steven

James, Sarah

Schowalter, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Steven J. Friesen, Sarah A. James, and Daniel N. Schowalter, Inequality in Corinth (you say that like it’s a bad thing)

Elites and Non-elites
2. Sarah A. James, The Last of the Corinthians? Society and Settlement from 146 to 44 BCE
3. Benjamin W. Millis, The Local Magistrates and Elite of Roman Corinth
4. Laura S. Nasrallah, “You Were Bought with a Price”: Freedpersons and Things in 1 Corinthians
5. Sarah Lepinksi, Painting Practices in Roman Corinth: Greek or Roman?

Socio-economic Inequality in Corinth
6. Guy D. R. Sanders, Landlords and Tenants: Sharecroppers and Subsistence Farming in Corinthian Historical Context
7. David K. Pettegrew, The Diolkos and the Emporion: How a Land Bridge Framed the Commercial Economy of Roman Corinth
8. William Caraher, The Ambivalent Landscape of Christian Corinth: The Archaeology of Place, Theology, and Politics in a Late Antique City
9. Daniel N. Schowalter, Regilla Standing By: Reconstructed Statuary and Re-inscribed Bases in Fourth-Century Corinth.

Inequalities in Gender & Religion in Roman Corinth
10. Ronald S. Stroud, Religion and Magic in Roman Corinth
11. Steven J. Friesen, Junia Theodora of Corinth: Gendered Inequalities in the Early Empire
12. Caroline Johnson Hodges, ‘Mixed Marriage’ in Early Christianity: Trajectories from Corinth

Über Autor(innen)

Steven J. Friesen, Ph.D. (1990), Harvard University, is the Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Imperial Cults and the Apocalypse of John: Reading Revelation in the Ruins (Oxford, 2001).

Sarah A. James, Ph.D (2010), University of Texas at Austin, is an Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research involves the material culture of Corinth during the Hellenistic and early Roman periods.

Daniel N. Schowalter, Th.D. (1989) Harvard Divinity School, is professor of Classics and Religion at Carthage College. He is co-Director of the Omrit Settlement Excavations in northern Israel and co-editor of The Roman Temple Complex at Horvat Omirt (Archaeopress, 2011)