Antioch : a history
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Antioch : a history
（Cities of the ancient world）
Routledge, 2021
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [524]-555) and index
Summary: "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. Antioch has typically been treated as a city whose classical glory faded permanently amid a series of natural disasters and foreign invasions in the sixth and seventh centuries C.E. Such studies have obstructed the view of Antioch's fascinating urban transformations from classical to medieval to modern city and the processes behind these. Through its comprehensive blend of textual sources and new archaeological data reanalyzed from Princeton's 1930s excavations and recent discoveries, this book offers unprecedented insights into the complete history of Antioch, recreating the lives of the people who lived in it and focusing on the factors that affected them during the evolution of its remarkable cityscape. While An
Contents of Works
- The Eagle of Zeus Arrives (303 BCE-64 BCE)
- Orientis Apex Pulcher : The Roman "Beautiful Crown of the East" in the making (64 BCE 192CE)
- From Capital to Crisis : Antioch in the Late Roman Empire (193-458 CE)
- Theoupolis, the City of God (458-638)
- Anṭākiya, Mother of the Frontier (638-969)
- The Byzantine Duchy of Antioch (969-1085)
- The Saljūqs : An Interlude (1084-1098)
- The Crusader Principality of Antioch (1098-1268)
- A Mamlūk Entrepot (1268-1516)
- Ottoman Antakya (1516-1918)
- A Frontier Town Once More (1920-2020)