Glanville Downey's A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest, Princeton University Press, 1961, is a scholarly history. Its strength is that it covers an unusually long span, from the city's Hellenistic founding through the Arab conquest, in one sustained academic account drawn from the full range of surviving classical and late antique sources. Its limit is the ordinary one for a broad single volume history now over sixty years old: later archaeology and scholarship have refined some of its specific claims even as its overall framework has endured.
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Glanville Downey's A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest, published by Princeton University Press in 1961, the top tier reflecting a sustained academic account drawn from the full range of surviving classical and late antique sources, notwithstanding that later archaeology and scholarship have refined some of its specific claims even as its overall framework has endured over sixty years. NotesScholarly history of Antioch in Syria from the Seleucid era to the Arab conquest, Princeton University Press, 1961.
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AuthorGlanville Downey
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication Year1961
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Antioch directly: "Glanville Downey's A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest, Princeton University Press, 1961, is a scholarly history."
Source A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab ConquestGlanville Downey
This source names Arabs directly: "Glanville Downey's A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest, Princeton University Press, 1961, is a scholarly history."
Source A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab ConquestGlanville Downey
This source names Syria directly: "Downey's A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest, Princeton University Press, 1961, is a scholarly history."
Source A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab ConquestGlanville Downey
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- Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Rituals, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Cities, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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