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Antioch
A History
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Artikel-Nr:
9780367633042
Veröffentl:
2021
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.05.2021
Seiten:
610
Autor:
A. Asa Eger
Gewicht:
851 g
Format:
233x160x37 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Andrea U. De Giorgi is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the Florida State University, USA. He specializes in Roman urbanism and visual culture from the origins to Late Antiquity, with emphasis on the Greek East. He is the author of Ancient Antioch: From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest (2016, paperback 2018), editor of Cosa and the Colonial Landscape of Republican Italy (2019), and co-editor of Cosa/Orbetello. Archaeological Itineraries (2016). Dr. De Giorgi has directed excavations and surveys in Turkey, Syria, Georgia, Jordan, and the UAE. Since 2013, he has codirected the Cosa Excavations in Italy, and currently studies the 1930s Antioch collections at the Princeton University Art Museum, USA. He has also collaborated with the Museo di Anchità di Torino, the Museo di Cosa in Ansedonia, and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida.
This is a complete history of Antioch, one of the most significant major cities of the eastern Mediterranean and a crossroads for the Silk Road, from its foundation by the Seleucids, through Roman rule, the rise of Christianity, Islamic and Byzantine conquests, to the Crusades and beyond.
1 The Eagle of Zeus Arrives (303BCE-64BCE) 2 Orientis Apex Pulcher: The Roman "Beautiful Crown of the East" in the making (64BCE-192CE) 3 From Capital to Crisis: Antioch in the Late Roman Empire (193-458) 4 Theoupolis, the City of God (458-638) 5 An¿¿kiya, Mother of the Cities (638-969) 6 The Byzantine Duchy of Antioch (969-1085) 7 The Salj¿qs: An Interlude (1084-1098) 8 The Crusader Principality of Antioch (1098-1268) 9 A Maml¿k Entrepot (1268-1516) 10 Ottoman Antakya (1516-1918) 11 A Frontier Town Once More (1920-2020)