This study explores the development of ancient festival culture in
the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to
the fundamental religious changes that occurred. After analysing
how Greek city festivals developed in the first two Imperial
centuries, it concentrates on the major Roman festivals that were
adopted in the Eastern cities and traces their history up to the
time of Justinian and beyond. It addresses several key questions
for the religious history of later antiquity: who were the actors
behind these adoptions? How did the closed religious communities,
Jews and pre-Constantinian Christians, articulate their resistance?
How did these festivals change when the empire converted to
Christianity? Why did emperors not yield to the long-standing
pressure of the Church to abolish them? And finally, how did these
very popular festivals - despite their pagan tradition - influence
the form of the newly developed Christian liturgy?
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