Antioch - De Giorgi, Andrea U.

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Auteur(s) : De Giorgi, Andrea U. - Eger, A. Asa

Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 612

Expédition : 851

Dimensions : 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.3

ISBN : 9780367633042

Résumé :

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.

Biographie:

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 Anchit? di Torino, the Museo di Cosa in Ansedonia, and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida.

A. Asa Eger is Associate Professor of the Islamic World in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. His research centers on Islamic and Byzantine history and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on frontiers and the relationship between cities and hinterlands. He is the author of The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities (2015), winner of ASOR's G. Ernest Wright Book award for 2015; The Spaces Between the Teeth: A Gazetteer of Towns on the Islamic-Byzantine Frontier (2012, 2nd edition 2016); and editor of The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers (2019). Dr. Eger has directed excavations and surveyed all around Antioch (Antakya) in Turkey since 2001, as well as in Israel, Cyprus, and Greece. He currently studies the 1930s Antioch collections at the Princeton University Art Museum, USA, and 1970s survey material from the Tell Rifa'at Survey, the hinterland of Aleppo, at the Louvre Museum, France.

Sommaire:

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)