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Chapter 18 - Violence in Antioch

from Part III - The People of Antioch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2024

By
Paweł Filipczak
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Andrea U. De Giorgi
Andrea U. De Giorgi
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Florida State University
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Summary

Antioch’s circuses and theaters are well known; however, how they gradually became locus to faction rivalries and hotbeds for civic strife is brought into focus by this chapter.

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AntiochViolenceFactionsCircus
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Antioch on the Orontes
History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture
 , pp. 298 - 311
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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