Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia

by Raymond Van Dam

Cappadocia had long been a marginal province in the eastern Roman empire, high on a rugged plateau in central Asia Minor and hardly influenced by classical Greek culture. But during the fourth century emperors visited repeatedly as they traveled between Constantinople and Antioch. In Cappadocia they met provincial notables and prominent churchmen, including Basil of Caesarea, his brother Gregory of Nyssa, and their friend Gregory of Nazianzus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812236815
• ISBN13: 9780812236811
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"