"Seventeen essays on the history, archaeology, urban development, and
religious practices of ancient Corinth, with special attention to the
early history of Christianity. Topics include burial customs, water
supply, city planning, and sociology. Results of an interdisciplinary
conference held at Harvard University, January 2002--Provided by
publisher.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-498) and index.
Urban Corinth: an introduction / G.D.R. Sanders -- Urban and rural
planning in Roman Corinth / David Gilman Romano -- Favorinus's
"Corinthian oration": a piqued panorama of the hadrianic forum / L.
Michael White -- Fountains and the formation of cultural identity at
Roman Corinth / Betsey A. Robinson -- Religion in Corinth: 146 B.C.E.
to 100 C.E. / Nancy Bookidis -- Rites for Melikertes-Palaimon in the
early Roman Corinthia / Elizabeth R. Gebhard -- The stones don't
speak and the texts tell lies: sacred sex at Corinth / John R. Lanci
-- Roman Corinth: the final years of pagan cult facilities along East
Theater Street / Charles K. Williams II -- Unquiet graves: burial
practices of the Roman Corinthians / Mary E. Hoskins Walbank --
Placing the dead: funerary practice and social stratification in the
early Roman period at Corinth and Ephesos / Christine M. Thomas --
Paul's letters to Corinth: the interpretive intertwining of literary
and historical reconstruction / Margaret M. Mitchell -- The silence
of the apostle / Helmut Koester -- Prospects for a demography of the
Pauline mission: Corinth among the churches / Steven J. Friesen --
Paul's assembly in Corinth: an alternative society / Richard A.
Horsley -- Identity in Roman Corinth and its impact on early
Christians / James Walters -- Archaeological evidence for early
Christianity and the end of hellenistic religion in Corinth / G.D.R.
Sanders -- Ecclesiastical ambiguities: Corinth in the fourth and
fifth centuries / Vasiliki Limberis.
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