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Corinth: The First City of Greece: An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion

Corinth: The First City of Greece: An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion

Rothaus, Richard M.

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ISBN10: 9004109226
ISBN13: 9789004109223
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 27 2000
Pages: 174
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.66
Language: English
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.

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