1st Edition

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

By Steven K. Ross Copyright 2001
    218 Pages
    by Routledge

    218 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Steven K. Ross