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)