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Antioch on the Orontes, an ancient Greek city on the eastern side of the Orontes River, was one of the most glorious of all Greek cities.
We made a full day excursion to Antakya (biblical Antioch of Syria). Turning south along the Mediterranean we passed the plain of Issus where the armies of Alexander and Darius fought in 333 B.C. F…
An introduction to life in Antioch in 350AD. Amidst the great buildings live the beleaguered poor of the Roman world. The Christians were destined to care for and convert these people but in 350AD …
The massacre at the Siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098 / Das Massaker an der Belagerung von Antiochia fand während des Ersten Kreuzzugs in den Jahren 1097 und 1098...
Saint Paul preached there and Anthony and Cleopatra partied. In the ancient city of Antioch, near the border with Syria, Kevin Gould found a taste of Turkey with an Arabic accent
The Church of Saint Peter near Antakya (Antioch), Turkey, is composed of a cave carved into the mountainside on Mount Starius with a depth of 13 m (42 ft.), a width of 9.5 m (31 ft.) and a height of 7 m (23 ft). This cave, which was used by by the very first disciples called Christians, is one of Christianity's oldest churches. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Peter
The charming city of Antioch is part of the East Bay San Francisco area and enjoys prime position sitting on the San Joaquin River. Antioch is known as the gateway ... Read more
This morning in Bible class I taught about Antioch of Pisidia. Tonight I decided to share some pictures from my presentation and give you a quick tour of the site. Here is the base of the city port…
Cyprian of Antioch (of Pisídia) is a historic polemic figure whose biography lost itself in the distance of the centuries that produce the mix between legend and reality. Paradoxal, during his life he was a powerful sorcerer and, later, a saint christian martyr. He is famous like a Saint but much more famous like a black magician. The mistery about this sorcerer saint begins with uncertainty with regard to his biography: where he was born, when he born, his family name etc.. Only the arduous research and comparative study can provide some reliable facts. According the Ortodox Christian Information Center, Cyprian lived at Antioch of Pisídia but was born at Cartago, north of Africa. Cartago may be an unlikely option. This information seems to be another result of a confusion among the saints Cyprian, especially with St. Cyprian of Carthage, (Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus) that was born and became a bishop in this city, a Christian martyr who lived in the same period of Cyprian, the sorcerer, century three after Christ. The key of the birth's place could be in the own name "Cyprian" that can mean someone or something from island of Cyprus, Aegean sea, inner Mediterranean. In his occultist education, which began in early childhood, since then, encouraged by his parents, that were rich pagans. He traveled to many countries and kingdoms studying with the masters of the ancient schools of magic: in temple of Mitra, at Greece, at the mount Olympus in Cyprus, Egpty, India and and schools of Babylon in Mesopotamia, with priests heirs of the ancient Chaldean magi. by Lygia Cabus
Giovanni Uggeri, born 1939, is (was?) an academic at the University of Rome with a specialty in ancient topography. He is (was?) the editor of the Italian language Journal of Ancient Topography. I use the is/was idiom as all emails to his Rome university website bounce back even though he was shown as still running courses last year at the Rome university. Back in 1998 he wrote an extensive article for his journal on the topography of ancient Antioch. This article was stumbled upon by some convoluted search technique but I have not seen it cited in any work on Antioch, despite the fact that it has several novel concepts contained within. The map is shown below (click to enlarge). The ways in which it differs from Wilber (which is shown again at the bottom of this posting) are many. I shall note a few of the most notable here: in the southern wall, Uggeri shows both the Golden Gate (Porta Aurea) and the Rhodion Gate, which I have recently discussed elsewhere. he shows the Mese Pyle (Middle Gate) above the Forum of Valens. In his text he refers to this as leading up the valley of the Parmenios as an alternative route to Apamea. he shows a "tower" on the Colonnaded Street a few blocks northeast of the Forum of Valens he shows the course of the silted up branch of the Orontes running along the new Theodosian Wall rather than arching away as Wilber does he shows another silted up course of the river running through the middle of the Island cutting off the Hippodrome, palace and temple from other parts of the Island. Where he came up with this idea is not mentioned in the text of his article. he adds an extra bridge to the Island. This bridge heads off the Island to the north crossing the main branch of the Orontes. On the far side it connects with the road to Alexandria ad Issum. The bridge is aligned with the right side of the Hippodrome (and thus coincides with Poccardi's thoughts) and aligns also with the Dog Gate and its bridge in connecting with the main part of the city. This seems to make sense but I have seen no evidence for it in any text and neither is there any archeological evidence for it. he clearly shows the Bridge Gate under its alternative name of the Porta Philonauta, in line with the evidence from Malalas. he sites the "emporio" or river port at the mouth of the Phyrminos. This port become virtually redundant when the river became unnavigable in early Roman days. he aligns the theatre with the ceremonial crossing avenue that ran at 90 degrees to the Colonnaded Street. This would have created an urban vista consistent with Spano's thought that the outward facing wall of the flat side of the theatre (the scenae frons) doubled as a vast ornamental Nymphaeum he shows two "vasca", basically water reservoirs, while Wilber shows only one he places the acropolis way above the Charonion he shows the Agora by the river bank within the old Seleucid City he aligns the amphitheatre with the rondpoint that Lassus discovered under the Habib el-Najjar mosque he fleshes out the street pattern on the main part of the city much more fully he omits all the other bridges to and from the Island, besides those two aligned with the Hippodrome he fudges the positioning of the bridge (the Tauriana?) which may have led twoards the the Kaoussie ChurchLove it or hate it, the Uggeri map is a thought-provoking challenge to the Wilber plan that had already been debunked in part (where it relates to the Island) by Poccardi.
OUR neighbouring parish church - which includes the Anglican Chaplaincy to the Universities of Liverpool - is dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch , whose feast day is 20th July. Our Rector Miranda preached the sermon at their Patronal Festival, and gave&nb
Die Venus von Milo , eine Skulptur der Göttin Aphrodite, ist neben der Laokoon-Gruppe und der Nike von Samothrake eines der bekanntesten Beispiele der hellenistischen Kunst. Die 2,02 Meter hohe Skulptur entstand gegen Ende des 2. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Der Name des Künstlers ist nicht überliefert.
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A Walk with Paul – Antioch History The city of Antioch was founded in 301 BC by Seleucus I, one of Alexander the Great’s generals. It was an ideal location as it was at a crossroad fo…
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