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Corinth, the First City of Greece: An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)

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This book addresses cult and religion within the city of Corinth from the 4th to 7th centuries of our era. The work accommodates and synthesizes all to be had evidence, literary, archaeological and other. The interaction and conflict between Christian and non-Christian activity is placed into its urban context and seen as concurrently existing and overlapping cultural activity. Late antique religion is defined as cult-based moderately than doctrinally-based, and thus this volume focuses not on what people believed, but moderately what they did. An emphasis on cult activity reveals numerous forms of interaction between groups, ranging from confrontational events at dilapidated polytheist cult sites, to full polysemous and shared cult activity on the so-known as “Fountain of the Lamps.” Non-Christian traditions are shown to have been recognized and viable in the course of the sixth century. The tentative conclusion is drawn that a clear definition of “pagan” and “Christian” begins at an urban level with the Christian re-monumentalization of Corinth with basilicas. The disappearance of “pagan” cult is best attributed to the development of a new city socially and physically based in Christianity, moderately than any purely “religious” development.

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