文档介绍：RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Studies of religious interaction in the fourth century ad have often
assumed that the categories of ‘pagan’, ‘Christian’ and ‘Jew’ can be
straightforwardly applied, and that we can assess the extent of Chris-
tianization in the Graeco-Roman period. In contrast, Dr Sandwell
tackles the fundamental question of attitudes to religious identity
by exploring how the Christian preacher John Chrysostom and the
Graeco-Roman orator Libanius wrote about and understood issues of
religious allegiance. paring the approaches of these men, who
were living and working in Antioch at approximately the same time,
she strives to get inside the process of religious interaction in a way not
normally possible due to the dominance of Christian sources. In so
doing, she develops new approaches to the study of Libanius’ religion,
the impact of John Chrysostom’s preaching on his audiences and the
importance of religious identity to fourth-century individuals.
Isabella Sandwell is Lecturer in Ancient History at the Uni-
versity of Bristol.
greek culture in the roman world
Editors
susan e. alcock,University of Michigan
jas´ elsner, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
simon goldhill,University of Cambridge
The Greek culture of the Roman Empire offers a rich field of study. Extraordi-
nary insights can be gained into processes of multicultural contact and exchange,
political and ideological conflict, and the creativity of a changing, polyglot empire.
During this period, many fundamental elements of Western society were being
set in place: from the rise of Christianity, to an influential system of education,
to long-lived artistic canons. This series is the first to focus on the response of
Greek culture to its Roman imperial setting as a significant phenomenon in its
own right. To this end, it will publish original and innovative research in the art,
archaeology, epigraphy, history, philosophy, religion, and literature of