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Table of contents :
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page ix)
List of Abbreviations (page xiii)
List of Roman Emperors and Bishops of Antioch (page xv)
Timeline of Key Events (page xvii)
Maps (page xx)
Introduction: The Lay of the Land (page 1)
1. The Power of Prestigious Places: Teaching and Preaching in Fourth-Century Antioch (page 31)
2. Burying Babylas: Place-Marketing and the Politics of Memory (page 58)
3. Being Correctly Christian: John Chrysostom's Rhetoric in 386-87 (page 92)
4. Transformative Transgressions: Exploiting the Urban/Rural Divide (page 129)
5. Mapping a Textured Landscape: Temples, Martyrs, and Ascetics (page 163)
6. Elsewhere in the Empire (page 204)
Conclusion: Controlling Contested Places (page 241)
Bibliography (page 255)
Index (page 283)
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