Dodecanese and the Eastern Aegean Islands in Late Antiquity, Ad 300 70

This volume is a regional study of the history, archaeology, and religious profile of the Late Antique Dodecanese (the islands of the south-eastern Aegean), exploring how the spread of Christianity altered these communities and how the prosperity of the eastern Roman Empire, and the new capital in Constantinople, affected their life.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• List of Figures


• List of Abbreviations


• 1: Introduction and Description of Aims


• 2: The Administrative and Political History of the Province of the Islands


• 3: Christian and Jewish Communities in the Eastern Aegean


• 4: Late Paganism on the Aegean Islands and the Transition to a Christian World


• 5: The Late Antique Archaeology of the Dodecanese


• 6: The Economy of the Dodecanese and its Role in Maritime Exchange During the Fifth and Sixth Centuries


• 7: The Seventh Century


• 8: Conclusions: Towards a History of the Dodecanese in Late Antiquity


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Georgios Deligiannakis is Assistant Professor in Roman and Late Roman Studies at the Open University of Cyprus.

Summary

This volume is a regional study of the history, archaeology, and religious profile of the Late Antique Dodecanese (the islands of the south-eastern Aegean), exploring how the spread of Christianity altered these communities and how the prosperity of the eastern Roman Empire, and the new capital in Constantinople, affected their life.

Additional text

[Deligiannakis] has created a critical synthesis of the available data that will be of lasting value, and the reader is left with a clear sense of the research possibilities offered by this fascinating region.

Product details

• Authors: Georgios Deligiannakis, Georgios (Assistant Professor in Ro Deligiannakis, Georgios (Assistant Professor in Roman and Late Roman Studies Deligiannakis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780198745990
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874599-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; Oxford Monographs on Classical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Greece, Ancient World, Ancient History, Greek Islands, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, c 500 to c 1000 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Greece