Urban Religion in Roman Corinth : Interdisciplinary Approaches,

by Schowalter, Daniel N.

• ISBN13: 9780674016606
• ISBN10: 0674016602
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-15
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

This book discusses the history, topography, and urban development of Corinth with special attention to civic and private religious practices in the Roman colony. Expert analysis of the latest archaeological data is coupled with consideration of what can be known about the emergence and evolution of religions in Corinth. Several scholars consider specific aspects of archaeological evidence and ask how enhanced knowledge of such topics as burial practice, water supply, and city planning strengthens our understanding of religious identity and practice in the ancient city. This volume seeks to gain insight into the nature of the Greco-Roman city visited by Paul, and the ways in which Christianity gradually emerged as the dominant religion. This is a collaborative effort by scholars of archaeology, Greco-Roman studies, and early Christian literature who met at Harvard University in January 2002. It is the third in a series of volumes on ancient cities utilizing an interdisciplinary approach to understand urban life in ancient times. The earlier books are Ephesos: Metropolis of Asia (1995)--now back in print--and Pergamon: Citadel of the Gods (1998).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	3	(8)
Daniel N. Schowalter
CHAPTER ONE Urban Corinth: An Introduction	11	(14)
G.D.R. Sanders
CHAPTER TWO Urban and Rural Planning in Roman Corinth	25	(36)
David Gilman Romano
CHAPTER THREE Favorinus's "Corinthian Oration": A Piqued Panorama of the Hadrianic Forum	61	(50)
L. Michael White
CHAPTER FOUR Fountains and the Formation of Cultural Identity at Roman Corinth	111	(30)
Betsey A. Robinson
CHAPTER FIVE Religion in Corinth: 146 B.C.E. to 100 C.E.	141	(24)
Nancy Bookidis
CHAPTER SIX Rites for Melikertes-Palaimon in the Early Roman Corinthia	165	(40)
Elizabeth R. Gebhard
CHAPTER SEVEN The Stones Don't Speak and the Texts Tell Lies: Sacred Sex at Corinth	205	(16)
John R. Lanci
CHAPTER EIGHT Roman Corinth: The Final Years of Pagan Cult Facilities along East Theater Street	221	(28)
Charles K. Williams II
CHAPTER NINE Unquiet Graves: Burial Practices of the Roman Corinthians	249	(32)
Mary E. Hoskins Walbank
CHAPTER TEN Placing the Dead: Funerary Practice and Social Stratification in the Early Roman Period at Corinth and Ephesos	281	(26)
Christine M. Thomas
CHAPTER ELEVEN Paul's Letters to Corinth: The Interpretive Intertwining of Literary and Historical Reconstruction	307	(32)
Margaret M. Mitchell
CHAPTER TWELVE The Silence of the Apostle	339	(12)
Helmut Koester
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Prospects for a Demography of the Pauline Mission: Corinth among the Churches	351	(20)
Steven J. Friesen
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Paul's Assembly in Corinth: An Alternative Society	371	(26)
Richard A. Horsley
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Civic Identity in Roman Corinth and Its Impact on Early Christians	397	(22)
James Walters
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Archaeological Evidence for Early Christianity and the End of Hellenic Religion in Corinth	419	(24)
G.D.R. Sanders
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Ecclesiastical Ambiguities: Corinth in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries	443	(16)
Vasiliki Limberis
Bibliography	459	(40)
Maps	499	(8)
Illustration Credits	507	(4)
Index	511