A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity
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Faxian
Finley, Moses
Flavia Germanilla
Flavius Geminius Catullinus
Flavius Taurinos, family of
food bananas
dates
fig trees
onions
freedmen and freedwomen
Fustat, see Cairo
Galerius
Gandhara
Gaul
gender
Georgia of Jerash
Gibbon Edward
gladiators
Gordian III
Gospel of Mary
Gospel of Thomas
Gothic (architecture)
Gothic (language)
Goths, see also Ostrogoths; Visigoths Greuthungi
Tervingi
grain shipments
Gratian
grave markers
Greek (language) Greek Anthology
official language of the Roman Empire
Gregory (bishop)
Guldi, Jo
Hadrian
Hagia Sophia, see churches
Hanukkah
Hatshepsut, Queen
Hebrew
Hebrew Scripture
Hellenistic world
Heraclius
Hercules
heresy
Herod
Herodian
Heruli
“Hinduism” brahmans
Upanishads
Vedas
Hippolytus
Honorius
Horden, Peregrine
Houdini, Harry
“household duty code”
houses adapted at Dura Europos into a synagogue
Muhammad’s house
role in the rise of Christianity
Huns
hunting
Hypatia
Iberian peninsula
Ibn Sa’d
Ignatius of Antioch
imperial cult, Roman
India Dehli
Gupta Empire
Mathura
Indian Ocean
Indus River valley
inflation, modern theories of
initiation
inscriptions, see epigraphy
Iran
Ireland
Irenaeus
Isidore of Miletus
Isis, see also Christianity, rise of; mystery cults, alleged influence on Temple at Philae, Egypt
Islam
“Islamization,” cultural threat of
Israel Hammat Gader
Huqoq
Italy
Jafnids
Jahiliyyah
Jerash, see Jordan
Jerome
Jerusalem captured by Believers’ army
Cardo Maximus
direction of prayer in early Believer’s movement
Dome of the Rock
First Temple
Holy Cross
Holy Sepulcher
New Church of Mary
Sasanian capture of
Second Temple (Temple Mount)
Temple of Venus (Aphrodite)
tourism
Jesus curses a fig tree outside Jerusalem
resurrection
Second Coming, belief in
subject of theological debate
Jews, see also synagogues Christian‐Jewish‐Muslim relations
Christian‐Jewish relations
figural tradition in art
identity disputes among
Ioudaioi, scholarly debates about translating
Kingdom of Himyar
legal petitions
Muslim‐Jewish relations
use of menorah
John Malalas
Jordan Amman
Gerasa (Jerash)
Qusayr ‘Amra
Josephus
Judaea, province
Judaism Ioudaïsmos, erroneously translated as
patriarch
ritual calendar
split from Christianity
Julian
Jushi
Justinian
Ka’ba of Mecca
Kerch
Kerdir
Khusrow II
Lactantius
languages, see also individual languages bilingualism
Latin
lawyers
legal culture Christian law
Constitution of Medina
Gaius’ Institutes
interpersonal relations
Justinianic Code
Justinian’s Institutes
Justinian’s Novels
Theodosian Code
Leo III, Pope
Levant
Libanius
Licinius
literary culture
Lombards
luxury
Maccabees
Macrobius
magister officiorum
Magna Mater, see Cybele
Majorian
Mandarin
Mani
marble
Marcianus
Marcus Aurelius
marriage
Martial, bishop
martyrdom
Martyrdom of Polycarp
material culture deducing religious identity from
figural artwork in Judaism
math
Mathews, Thomas
Mauri
Maxentius
Maximinus
Mecca, see Arabian peninsula
medicine De materia medica
Melania Life of Melania
memory studies
Merovingian
messengers
Michael the Syrian
micro‐history
“middle class”
Milan
mines
Minucius Felix
Mishnah, development of
Mithras
monotheism
Moses
mosque qibla
Muhammad biographers of
birth
City of the Prophet, Medina
death
emigration to Yathrib
house in Yathrib
mummies, Egyptian
museums
Muslims, see also “Believers” Muslim‐Christian‐Jewish relations
Muslim‐Christian relations
Muslim‐Jewish relations
use of term during early movement
mustaches
mystery cults
Nag Hammadi
Naqsh‐i Rustam Ka’ba‐i Zardusht
Nasrids
Nebuchadnezzar, King
necropolis, Vatican
Nepal
Nero
Nestorius
Nicagoras
Nicene creed
Nicomedia
Nike
Nile
Notitia Dignitatum
Odoacer
olive trees
Oman Birkat al‐Mawz
opus sectile
Orestes of Alexandria
Origen
Orosius
Osrhoene
Ostia amphora evidence from
houses
Mithraea
St. Aurea (church)
synagogue
Ostian Way
Ostrogoths, see also Theoderic, King Amalasountha, Queen
paganus meaning “civilian”
meaning “rustic”
Pahlavi (Middle Persian)
Pakistan
Palestine
Palladius of Gaul
Palmyra (Tadmur)
papyrus (papyri)
parabolani
Paris
Parthia
paterfamilias
Paul so‐called conversion of
Penn and Teller
periodization, historical
persecution, notions of
Persia see also Sasanians Ctesiphon
Persian Gulf
Peter (apostle)
Philip (emperor)
Philo
philoso
phy
Phoebe
Phoibammon
pietas
Pisa
plague psychological effects of
Plato
Pliny (the Elder)
Plotinus
Plousammon
pluralism, see toleration
Plutarch
pontifex maximus
Porphyrius
Porphyry Life of Plotinus
Portus
praefectus annonae
praefectus urbi
Prakrit
pre‐modern history
Priscilla
Proba
Proclus
Procopius Secret History
prophecies doomsday
written after the fact
proskynesis
pseudepigraphy
quaestor sacri palatini
Qur’ān
Quraysh
Qusayr ‘Amra
Ramses II
Ravenna
Red Sea
religio as a branch of Rome’s government
religious extremism, see extremism, religious
Remus
resistance, social and cultural
Revelation (book)
Rheims
Romania
Rome, see also churches Aurelian Wall
Aventine Hill
Caelian Hill
Campus Martius
Circus of Gaius and Nero
Circus Maximus
Constantine’s Arch and Basilica
Crypta Balbi Museum
festivals
Flavian Amphitheater
Forum Romanum
Imperial Fora
Palatine Hill
Pantheon
Porticus Minucia
Trajan’s Forum
Via Appia
Rosh Hashanah
Rufius Volusianus
Rule of Four
Rutilius Namatianus Jewish people, opinions on
On His Return to Gaul
religious identity of
sacrifice, Roman civic
saeculum compared to the modern concept “secular”
sanctuaries
Sanskrit
Sapur I
Sapur II
Sasanians, see also Persia Roman‐Sasanian interaction in Arabian peninsula
territorial expansion
Satan
Schliemann, Heinrich
science earth, shape of
scrolls
Second Temple period, see Jerusalem
senate
September
Septimius Severus
sex
Shaw, Rosalind
Shenoute
ships and sailing
Sicily
Siddhārtha Gautama
Sidonius Apollinaris
Silk Roads Turfan and cities of
slaves and slavery
Socrates of Constantinople
Sogdiana
South Asia
Spain
Sri Lanka Godavaya shipwreck
Stark, Rodney
stereotyping
Stewart, Charles
Stilicho
synagogues Hammat Tiberias
Masada
Ostia
Priene
Sardis
syncretism scholarly critique of
scholarly fascination with
Syria
Syriac
Tajikistan
Taklamakan Desert
Taliban
Talmud
taxes
Tebessa
Tertullian
Themistius
Theoderic, King
Theodora
Theodosian Code, see legal culture
Theodosius I decision not to build on Temple Mount
Theodosius II
theology
Theophanes
Theophilus of Edessa
Theophylact Simocotta
Thessaloniki
Thomas Jefferson
Tiber River “polluted” by foreigners
time, telling of
Tiridates I
Tiridates IV
titulus titulus Pammachius
toleration
Torah, the
Toulouse
tourism and travel
trading routes
Trajan
Tunisia
Turkey
Turner, Victor
Tutankhamun, King
Umayyads
umma document, see legal culture, Constitution of Medina
Uthman
Uzbekistan
Valens
Valentinian II
Valentinian III
Valeria Melania
Valerian laws against Christians
Valerius Pinianus
Vandals
van Ranke, Leopold
Vatican Hil
vicarius
Victorinus of Toulouse
Victory (goddess)
vir clarissimus
Virgil
vir illustris
vir spectabilis
Visigoths Roderick, King
Walid II
Wallach Scott, Joan
wealth
White Monastery
Wickham, Chris
women half of the ancient population
“her‐story” and history
writers
Xerxes
Xinjiang, Uighur Autonomous Region
Xuanzang
Yathrib, see Arabian peninsula
Yemen Ma’rib
Sanctuary of Almaqah
Yersinia pestis
Yom Kippur
Zenobia
Zoroastrian beliefs Ahura Mazda
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