A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity

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by Douglas Boin


  Faxian

  Finley, Moses

  Flavia Germanilla

  Flavius Geminius Catullinus

  Flavius Taurinos, family of

  food bananas

  dates

  fig trees

  onions

  freedmen and freedwomen

  Fustat, see Cairo

  Galerius

  Gandhara

  Gaul

  gender

  Georgia of Jerash

  Gibbon Edward

  gladiators

  Gordian III

  Gospel of Mary

  Gospel of Thomas

  Gothic (architecture)

  Gothic (language)

  Goths, see also Ostrogoths; Visigoths Greuthungi

  Tervingi

  grain shipments

  Gratian

  grave markers

  Greek (language) Greek Anthology

  official language of the Roman Empire

  Gregory (bishop)

  Guldi, Jo

  Hadrian

  Hagia Sophia, see churches

  Hanukkah

  Hatshepsut, Queen

  Hebrew

  Hebrew Scripture

  Hellenistic world

  Heraclius

  Hercules

  heresy

  Herod

  Herodian

  Heruli

  “Hinduism” brahmans

  Upanishads

  Vedas

  Hippolytus

  Honorius

  Horden, Peregrine

  Houdini, Harry

  “household duty code”

  houses adapted at Dura Europos into a synagogue

  Muhammad’s house

  role in the rise of Christianity

  Huns

  hunting

  Hypatia

  Iberian peninsula

  Ibn Sa’d

  Ignatius of Antioch

  imperial cult, Roman

  India Dehli

  Gupta Empire

  Mathura

  Indian Ocean

  Indus River valley

  inflation, modern theories of

  initiation

  inscriptions, see epigraphy

  Iran

  Ireland

  Irenaeus

  Isidore of Miletus

  Isis, see also Christianity, rise of; mystery cults, alleged influence on Temple at Philae, Egypt

  Islam

  “Islamization,” cultural threat of

  Israel Hammat Gader

  Huqoq

  Italy

  Jafnids

  Jahiliyyah

  Jerash, see Jordan

  Jerome

  Jerusalem captured by Believers’ army

  Cardo Maximus

  direction of prayer in early Believer’s movement

  Dome of the Rock

  First Temple

  Holy Cross

  Holy Sepulcher

  New Church of Mary

  Sasanian capture of

  Second Temple (Temple Mount)

  Temple of Venus (Aphrodite)

  tourism

  Jesus curses a fig tree outside Jerusalem

  resurrection

  Second Coming, belief in

  subject of theological debate

  Jews, see also synagogues Christian‐Jewish‐Muslim relations

  Christian‐Jewish relations

  figural tradition in art

  identity disputes among

  Ioudaioi, scholarly debates about translating

  Kingdom of Himyar

  legal petitions

  Muslim‐Jewish relations

  use of menorah

  John Malalas

  Jordan Amman

  Gerasa (Jerash)

  Qusayr ‘Amra

  Josephus

  Judaea, province

  Judaism Ioudaïsmos, erroneously translated as

  patriarch

  ritual calendar

  split from Christianity

  Julian

  Jushi

  Justinian

  Ka’ba of Mecca

  Kerch

  Kerdir

  Khusrow II

  Lactantius

  languages, see also individual languages bilingualism

  Latin

  lawyers

  legal culture Christian law

  Constitution of Medina

  Gaius’ Institutes

  interpersonal relations

  Justinianic Code

  Justinian’s Institutes

  Justinian’s Novels

  Theodosian Code

  Leo III, Pope

  Levant

  Libanius

  Licinius

  literary culture

  Lombards

  luxury

  Maccabees

  Macrobius

  magister officiorum

  Magna Mater, see Cybele

  Majorian

  Mandarin

  Mani

  marble

  Marcianus

  Marcus Aurelius

  marriage

  Martial, bishop

  martyrdom

  Martyrdom of Polycarp

  material culture deducing religious identity from

  figural artwork in Judaism

  math

  Mathews, Thomas

  Mauri

  Maxentius

  Maximinus

  Mecca, see Arabian peninsula

  medicine De materia medica

  Melania Life of Melania

  memory studies

  Merovingian

  messengers

  Michael the Syrian

  micro‐history

  “middle class”

  Milan

  mines

  Minucius Felix

  Mishnah, development of

  Mithras

  monotheism

  Moses

  mosque qibla

  Muhammad biographers of

  birth

  City of the Prophet, Medina

  death

  emigration to Yathrib

  house in Yathrib

  mummies, Egyptian

  museums

  Muslims, see also “Believers” Muslim‐Christian‐Jewish relations

  Muslim‐Christian relations

  Muslim‐Jewish relations

  use of term during early movement

  mustaches

  mystery cults

  Nag Hammadi

  Naqsh‐i Rustam Ka’ba‐i Zardusht

  Nasrids

  Nebuchadnezzar, King

  necropolis, Vatican

  Nepal

  Nero

  Nestorius

  Nicagoras

  Nicene creed

  Nicomedia

  Nike

  Nile

  Notitia Dignitatum

  Odoacer

  olive trees

  Oman Birkat al‐Mawz

  opus sectile

  Orestes of Alexandria

  Origen

  Orosius

  Osrhoene

  Ostia amphora evidence from

  houses

  Mithraea

  St. Aurea (church)

  synagogue

  Ostian Way

  Ostrogoths, see also Theoderic, King Amalasountha, Queen

  paganus meaning “civilian”

  meaning “rustic”

  Pahlavi (Middle Persian)

  Pakistan

  Palestine

  Palladius of Gaul

  Palmyra (Tadmur)

  papyrus (papyri)

  parabolani

  Paris

  Parthia

  paterfamilias

  Paul so‐called conversion of

  Penn and Teller

  periodization, historical

  persecution, notions of

  Persia see also Sasanians Ctesiphon

  Persian Gulf

  Peter (apostle)

  Philip (emperor)

  Philo

  philoso
phy

  Phoebe

  Phoibammon

  pietas

  Pisa

  plague psychological effects of

  Plato

  Pliny (the Elder)

  Plotinus

  Plousammon

  pluralism, see toleration

  Plutarch

  pontifex maximus

  Porphyrius

  Porphyry Life of Plotinus

  Portus

  praefectus annonae

  praefectus urbi

  Prakrit

  pre‐modern history

  Priscilla

  Proba

  Proclus

  Procopius Secret History

  prophecies doomsday

  written after the fact

  proskynesis

  pseudepigraphy

  quaestor sacri palatini

  Qur’ān

  Quraysh

  Qusayr ‘Amra

  Ramses II

  Ravenna

  Red Sea

  religio as a branch of Rome’s government

  religious extremism, see extremism, religious

  Remus

  resistance, social and cultural

  Revelation (book)

  Rheims

  Romania

  Rome, see also churches Aurelian Wall

  Aventine Hill

  Caelian Hill

  Campus Martius

  Circus of Gaius and Nero

  Circus Maximus

  Constantine’s Arch and Basilica

  Crypta Balbi Museum

  festivals

  Flavian Amphitheater

  Forum Romanum

  Imperial Fora

  Palatine Hill

  Pantheon

  Porticus Minucia

  Trajan’s Forum

  Via Appia

  Rosh Hashanah

  Rufius Volusianus

  Rule of Four

  Rutilius Namatianus Jewish people, opinions on

  On His Return to Gaul

  religious identity of

  sacrifice, Roman civic

  saeculum compared to the modern concept “secular”

  sanctuaries

  Sanskrit

  Sapur I

  Sapur II

  Sasanians, see also Persia Roman‐Sasanian interaction in Arabian peninsula

  territorial expansion

  Satan

  Schliemann, Heinrich

  science earth, shape of

  scrolls

  Second Temple period, see Jerusalem

  senate

  September

  Septimius Severus

  sex

  Shaw, Rosalind

  Shenoute

  ships and sailing

  Sicily

  Siddhārtha Gautama

  Sidonius Apollinaris

  Silk Roads Turfan and cities of

  slaves and slavery

  Socrates of Constantinople

  Sogdiana

  South Asia

  Spain

  Sri Lanka Godavaya shipwreck

  Stark, Rodney

  stereotyping

  Stewart, Charles

  Stilicho

  synagogues Hammat Tiberias

  Masada

  Ostia

  Priene

  Sardis

  syncretism scholarly critique of

  scholarly fascination with

  Syria

  Syriac

  Tajikistan

  Taklamakan Desert

  Taliban

  Talmud

  taxes

  Tebessa

  Tertullian

  Themistius

  Theoderic, King

  Theodora

  Theodosian Code, see legal culture

  Theodosius I decision not to build on Temple Mount

  Theodosius II

  theology

  Theophanes

  Theophilus of Edessa

  Theophylact Simocotta

  Thessaloniki

  Thomas Jefferson

  Tiber River “polluted” by foreigners

  time, telling of

  Tiridates I

  Tiridates IV

  titulus titulus Pammachius

  toleration

  Torah, the

  Toulouse

  tourism and travel

  trading routes

  Trajan

  Tunisia

  Turkey

  Turner, Victor

  Tutankhamun, King

  Umayyads

  umma document, see legal culture, Constitution of Medina

  Uthman

  Uzbekistan

  Valens

  Valentinian II

  Valentinian III

  Valeria Melania

  Valerian laws against Christians

  Valerius Pinianus

  Vandals

  van Ranke, Leopold

  Vatican Hil

  vicarius

  Victorinus of Toulouse

  Victory (goddess)

  vir clarissimus

  Virgil

  vir illustris

  vir spectabilis

  Visigoths Roderick, King

  Walid II

  Wallach Scott, Joan

  wealth

  White Monastery

  Wickham, Chris

  women half of the ancient population

  “her‐story” and history

  writers

  Xerxes

  Xinjiang, Uighur Autonomous Region

  Xuanzang

  Yathrib, see Arabian peninsula

  Yemen Ma’rib

  Sanctuary of Almaqah

  Yersinia pestis

  Yom Kippur

  Zenobia

  Zoroastrian beliefs Ahura Mazda

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