Corinth in contrast : studies in inequality /

Corinth in contrast : studies in inequality / edited by Steven J. Friesen, Sarah A. James, and Daniel N. Schowalter. - 1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps. - Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; 155 . - Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 155. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-266) and index.

1. Inequality in Corinth / Steven J. Friesen, Sarah A. James, and Daniel N. Schowalter -- PART ONE : ELITES AND NON-ELITES -- 2. The last of the Corinthians? : society and settlement from 146 to 44 BCE / Sarah A. James -- 3. The local magistrates and elite of Roman Corinth / Benjamin W. Millis -- 4. "You were bought with a price" : freedpersons and things in 1 Corinthians / Laura Salah Nasrallah -- 5. Painting practices in Roman Corinth : Greek or Roman? / Sarah Lepinski -- PART TWO : SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES IN CORINTH -- 6. Landlords and tenants : sharecroppers and subsistence farming in Corinthian historical context / Guy D. R. Sanders -- 7. The Diolkos and the Emporion : how a land bridge framed the commercial economy of Roman Corinth / David K. Pettegrew -- 8. The ambivalent landscape of Christian Corinth : the archaeology of place, theology, and politics in a late antique city / William Caraher -- 9. Regilla standing by : reconstructed statuary and re-inscribed bases in fourth-century Corinth / Daniel N. Schowalter -- PART THREE : INEQUALITIES IN GENDER AND RELIGION IN ROMAN CORINTH -- 10. Religion and magic in Roman Corinth / Ronald S. Stroud -- 11. Junia Theodora of Corinth : gendered inequalities in the early empire / Steven J. Friesen -- 12. 'Mixed marriage' in early Christianity : trajectories from Corinth / Caroline Johnson Hodge.

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Equality--History.--Greece--Corinth


Corinth (Greece)--Antiquities.
Corinth (Greece)--History.
Corinth (Greece)--Religion.
Corinth (Greece)--Social conditions.
Corinth (Greece)--Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

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