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The Hellenistic Period The Hellenistic Period
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41 Antioch on the Orontes: The Urban Image
Get accessAndrea U. De Giorgi is professor of classical studies at the Florida State University and specializes in Roman urbanism and visual culture from the origins to late antiquity, with emphasis on the eastern Mediterranean. He is the author of Ancient Antioch: From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest (2016), co-author of Antioch: A History (2021), editor of Cosa and the Colonial Landscape of Republican Italy (2019), and editor of Antioch on the Orontes. History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture (2024). He has directed excavations and surveys in Turkey, Syria, Georgia, Jordan, Israel, and the UAE. Since 2013, he has directed the Cosa Excavations and, since 2024, the Montereggi Project in Italy; currently, he is studying the 1930s Antioch and Daphne collections at the Princeton University Art Museum.
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Published:22 April 2025
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Abstract
Antioch was a sophisticated and prosperous Graeco-Roman city. This prosperity was founded on trade—on the Orontes River and the Mediterranean, and overland routes east and south. With water and fertile lands, Antioch had a high quality of life, especially for the wealthiest. Founded ca. 300 bc, it became the capital of the Roman province of Syria after 64 bc. For centuries, Antioch accommodated a unique fusion of ethnicities, languages, and cultures. Its strategic location as a hub and center for trade, its Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman pedigree, and its role in making Christianity the dominant religion of the Roman Empire make Antioch an ideal focus for examining the transition from a pagan to a largely Christian world.
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