Antioch on the Orontes

Andrea U. De Giorgi is Professor of Classical Studies at Florida State University. A scholar  of Roman urbanism, he has directed archaeological projects in Italy, Israel, Turkey, Syria, Georgia, and Jordan. He is the author of Ancient Antioch: From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest  (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and co-author of Antioch: A History (Routledge, 2021), which won the Ernest Wright Book Award. He currently manages the publication of the Antioch collections stored at the Princeton University Art Museum.

I. Beginnings: 1. The History of Antioch: written sources. A survey Catherine Saliou; 2. The Geomorphology of the Greater Antioch Region Stephen Batiuk; 3. Seleucid Antioch: from Colony to Capital Boris Chrubasiki; 4. Seleucia Pieria in the Seleucid Period Eduardo Garcia-Molina; 5. The Antioch mint: from Seleucus to the Roman Period Kevin Butcher; 6. Antioch and its Hellenistic Monuments Grégoire Poccardi; 7. Antioch's Visual Culture and its Hellenistic Past Elizabeth M. Molacek; II. The Making of a Capital: 8. Antioch as Provincial Capital Carlos F. Noreña; 9. Building Programs and Natural Disasters: the Archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Antioch Gunnar Brands and Andrea U. De Giorgi; 10. The City Walls of Antioch: How Many? Christiane Brasse; 11. Powerful springs and dangerous torrents on unsafe ground: The hydraulic engineering buildings of Antioch and Seleucia Pieria Mathias Döring; 12. Housing in Daphne: domestic architecture in the making Eric Morvillez; 13. The Antioch Mosaics: History, Chronology, and Theory Nicole L. Berlin and Amy C. Miranda; 14. Coinage of and in Antioch in the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Periods Alan M. Stahl; III. The People of Antioch: 15. Eighteen Women in Imperial Antioch Marilena Casella; 16. The Middle Classes in 4th-Century AD Antioch: Tradesmen and Craftsmen in the Testimonies of Libanius and John Chrysostom Andrea Pellizzari; 17. Antioch – a military metropolis? Jorit Wintjes; 18. Violence in Antioch Pawel Filipczak; 19. Antiochene Riots against Jews in Malalas' Chronicle Ari B. Finckelstein; 20. Speaking of Jews: Late Antique Antioch's Shifting Anti-Jewish Rhetoric Christine Shepardson; 21. Antioch and the Political Economy of Empire in the Age of Justinian Peter Sarris; IV. Religion: 22. The First Christians of Antioch Carson Bay; 23. Christian Antioch. A Portrait of the Bishops of the Local Church Konstantinos Bozinis; 24. Julian in Antioch Bernadette Cabouret-Laurioux; 25. The Churches of Antioch in the life of the City Wendy Mayer; 26. Who is Jesus Christ? Theological Controversies in Antioch (4th to 6th Century CE) Fréderic Alpi; V. Crises and Resilience: 27. Earthquakes and State Responses at Antioch: Hellenistic to Early Byzantine Jordan Pickett; 28. Disasters and Divine Wrath: Antioch in the Homilies and Histories of Late Antiquity Merle Eisenberg; 29. Infectious Disease and its Repercussions in Sixth-Century Antioch Lee Mordechai; 30. Memory and the city: Reflections from the Post-Interesting on Islamic Antioch Asa A. Eger.