Roman Edessa: Politics and Culture on the Eastern Fringes of the Roman Empire, 114 - 242 C.E.

ISBN-13: 9780415620093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 204 str.

Steven K. Ross

Opis

Roman Edessa offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa, Turkey), which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the East and the West. Among the areas explored are:

• the cultural life and antecedents of Edessa
• Edessene religion
• the extent of the Hellenization at Edessa before the advent of Christianity
• the myth of an exchange of letters between a King Abgar and Jesus.

Spis treści

List of figures, Preface, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Introduction, 1 The earliest Edessa, 2 The coming of Rome, 3 From kingdom to province, 4 A king in Rome’s service, 5 A ‘Golden Age’?: the culture of pre-Christian Edessa, 6 Early Christianity and Edessan culture, 7 Conclusion, Appendix: Numismatic notes, Notes, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Steven K. Ross