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Author Boin, Douglas, author.

Title Ostia in late antiquity
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (310 pages)
Contents Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; The scope of this book; A note on the Ostian address system; Part One Background; 1 New approaches to daily life in Late Antique Ostia; Developments in post-processual archaeology; Memory in text and material culture; Beyond "Christianization"; Roman religion; Traditional Roman Religions; "Paganism"; Passing, covering, and identity management; The final frontier: Defining "religion"; 2 The new urban landscape of Romes ancient harbor; Ostias "front door" continued; Ship Sheds, Houses, and Late Antique Baths
A Collegium, a Villa, a Synagogue, and BathsThe city center; Elite Living Before Late Antiquity; The Apartments; A Glimpse at the Late Antique Economy; Civic Spaces; The dead ends of "Christian Ostia"; Part Two Foreground; 3 The third century:Roman religions and the long reach of the emperor; The third-century narrative; Ostia and the third-century narrative; The centrality of the emperor: Excavating Roman imperial cult; Domestic and workplace shrines; Beyond RELIGIO: An Amulet for Protection; Mithras at Ostia; Beneath the surface: Christianity in the third century
Reframing the Octavius of Minucius FelixOstia's Jewish community in the third century; Jewish-Christian relations in the third century; 4 The fourth century: Proud temples and resilient traditions; Narratives of the fourth century; The Early Fourth Century; The Mid-Fourth Century; The Late Fourth Century; The Late Fourth-Century "Pagan" Revival; Ostia from the third century to the fourth; Ostias Capitolium in the fourth century; Ostias Forum; The Late Antique Forum Inscriptions; Beyond the Temples and Sanctuaries; Jews and Christians in the fourth century; The Jewish Community
The Christian Community5 The fifth century: History seen from the spaces in between; Christians and Jews in fifth-century Ostia: The view from the street; The Cult of Saint Lawrence in fifth-century Ostia; Material Evidence for Saint Lawrence; Textual Evidence for Saint Lawrence; Ostia's traditional religions in the fifth century: The view from the street; The Sanctuary of Magna Mater; The Role of the Sculptural Past in the Fifth-Century Present; The Resonance of Old Dedications at Ostia; The Power of the Past; 6 The sixth and seventh centuries: A city in motion, shifting traditions
The continued visibility of traditional cultsCastor and Pollux; Isis; Vulcan; Archaeology, religion, and Roman time; Building identities around the clock; The power of martyr stories at Ostia; The power of Aurea at Ostia; Landscape, memories, and power; Postscript Looking down the road:Toward the Middle Ages; Next steps: Christians, Jews, and Muslims at Ostia; References; Index
Summary Ostia in Late Antiquity is the first book to narrate the life of Ostia Antica, Rome's ancient harbor, during the later empire
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Social change -- Italy -- Ostia (Extinct city)
Christianity -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Ostia (Extinct city)
Harbors -- Rome -- History
Port cities -- Rome -- History
Architecture -- Italy -- Ostia (Extinct city)
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Architecture
Christianity -- Social aspects
Harbors
Manners and customs
Port cities
Social change
Social conditions
SUBJECT Ostia (Extinct city) -- Social life and customs
Ostia (Extinct city) -- Social conditions
Subject Italy -- Ostia (Extinct city)
Rome (Empire)
Ostia Antica.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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