Roman Corinth: An Alternative Model for the Classical City

by Donald W. Engels

In the second century A.D., Corinth was the largest city in Roman Greece. A center of learning, culture, and commerce, it served as the capital of the senatorial province of Achaea and was the focus of apostle Paul's missionary activity. Donald Engels's important revisionist study of this ancient urban area is at once a detailed history of the Roman colony and a provocative socioeconomic analysis. With Corinth as an exemplar, Engels challenges the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226208702
• ISBN13: 9780226208701
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"