During the fourth century, Antioch on the Orontes was the most important imperial residence in the Roman Empire and a "hot-bed" of intellectual and religious activity. The writings of men such as Libanius, the emperor Julian, Ammianus Marcellinus, John Chrysostom, Theodoret, and many others, provide a density of written sources that is nearly unmatched in antiquity, while the archaeological evidence of the city's evolution is much harder to reconstruct. This volume assembles state-of-the-art scholarship on these ancient authors within the context of recent archaeological work to offer a rare comprehensive view of this late Roman city.

Born 1962; 1992 Dr.theol. Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich; 1999 Habilitation in Church History at the Humboldt University in Berlin; since 2000 Professor of Church History (from the Early Church to the Time of Reformation) at the University of Zurich.