Corinth in contrast
Subtitle: studies in inequality
By: edited by Steven J. Friesen, Sarah A. James, and Daniel N. Schowalter
Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 155; Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 155.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9789004226074; 9789004261860; 9789004261310
Subjects: Fornlämningar; Social life and customs; Equality; Ongelijkheid; Antiquities; Godsdienst; Maatschappij; Religion; Antike; Soziale Ungleichheit; Social conditions; Manners and customs; History; Social jämlikhet
Description: "In 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. This 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 ruled by Rome."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Inequality in Corinth  -- Steven J. Friesen, Sarah A. James, and Daniel N. Schowalter; title: The last of the Corinthians? : society and settlement from 146 to 44 BCE  -- Sarah A. James; title: The local magistrates and elite of Roman Corinth  -- Benjamin W. Millis; title: "You were bought with a price" : freedpersons and things in 1 Corinthians  -- Laura Salah Nasrallah; title: Painting practices in Roman Corinth : Greek or Roman?  -- Sarah Lepinski; title: Landlords and tenants : sharecroppers and subsistence farming in Corinthian historical context  -- Guy D.R. Sanders; title: The Diolkos and the Emporion : how a land bridge framed the commercial economy of Roman Corinth  -- David K. Pettegrew; title: The ambivalent landscape of Christian Corinth : the archaeology of place, theology, and politics in a late antique city  -- William Caraher; title: Regilla standing by : reconstructed statuary and re-inscribed bases in fourth-century Corinth  -- Daniel N. Schowalter; title: Religion and magic in Roman Corinth  -- Ronald S. Stroud; title: Junia Theodora of Corinth : gendered inequalities in the early empire  -- Steven J. Friesen; title: 'Mixed marriage' in early Christianity : trajectories from Corinth -- Caroline Johnson Hodge.