Roman Edessa
Politics and Culture on the Eastern Fringes of the Roman Empire, 114 - 242 C.E.| By: | Steven K. Ross |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415620093 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781134660629 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2001 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Roman Edessa offers a comprehensive and erudite analysis of the ancient city of Edessa (modern day Urfa, Turkey), which constituted a remarkable amalgam of the East and the West. Among the areas explored are: * the cultural life and antecedents of Edessa * Edessene religion * the extent of the Hellenization at Edessa before the advent of Christianity * the myth of an exchange of letters between a King Abgar and Jesus.