CV and List of publications by Cédric Brélaz
Authored Books by Cédric Brélaz
Athènes: École française d’Athènes (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, Supplément 59), 399 pp., 2018
Open Access: https://books.openedition.org/efa/3137?lang=fr
Athens: École française d’Athènes (Études épigraphiques, 6), 423 pp. + 56 pl., 2014
Basel: Schwabe (Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 32), 530 pp., 2005
Edited Books by Cédric Brélaz
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111029054
C. Brélaz and E. Rose (eds.), Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021
Open Access: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.5.120678
Paris: Éditions De Boccard (Études d’archéologie et d’histoire ancienne, Université de Strasbourg), 467 pp., 2017
Paris: Éditions Picard (Revue des Études Militaires Anciennes, VI), 160 pp., 2013
Geneva: Fondation Hardt pour l’Étude de l’Antiquité classique (Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique, LIV), 340 pp., 2008
Online Access: https://www.fondationhardt.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Entretiens-
54.pdf
Book Project by Cédric Brélaz
Edited Journal Issues by Cédric Brélaz
Papers by Cédric Brélaz
in T. Oppeneer & A. Zuiderhoek (eds.), Popular Political Participation from the Early Roman Empire to Late Antiquity: The Assemblies of the Greek Cities beyond Athens, forthcoming
Études balkaniques 60.3 (2024), pp. 628-686
in A. Cadwallader, J. R. Harrison, A. Standhartinger & L. L. Welborn (eds.), The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity, London – New York: T&T Clark, 2024, 275-293
We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, a... more We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a city of the first district of Macedonia 1 , a colony. We remained in this city for some days. (Acts 16.11-12) 2 In the narrative of Acts, the visit Paul paid to Philippi is depicted as a stage on a journey which would lead the apostle from town to town through Asia Minor, Macedonia and then Greece to preach to Jewish communities and local populations. Philippi was just a piece of this network of cities, and incidentally the first city any traveller sailing the usual sea route from northwestern Asia Minor to Macedonia would reach after calling at Neapolis (modern Kavala), a former Thasian colony and an independent city which was then used as Philippi's harbour. Coming from Neapolis, the apostle would first have climbed up the Symvolo hills and crossed the pass (about 200-metre high) near today's Monastery of Saint Silas, dedicated to Paul's companion; he would then have walked about 9 kilometres along the marshes covering at the time the southern part of the plain of Drama to reach the town of Philippi (see Figure 12.1). After staying 'some days' there, Paul resumed his journey heading west to Thessalonica and, going around Mount Pangaion to the northwest, passed through the neighbouring city of Amphipolis. Travelling from Neapolis to Amphipolis by way of the via Egnatia-the Roman main road going through the province of Macedonia from Dyrrachium (modern Durrës, Albania) My acknowledgements go to Georges Tirologos and to Angelos Zannis for sharing evidence and information with me.
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 226 (2023), pp. 88-94.
Revue des Études Anciennes 124.2 (2022), pp. 315-350
in S. J. Friesen, M. Lychounas & D. N. Schowalter (eds.), Philippi, From Colonia Augusta to Communitas Christiana. Religion and Society in Transition, Leiden – Boston: Brill (Novum Testamentum, Supplements, 186), 2021, 68-89
Three main ethnic groups lived in the Roman colony of Philippi: Thracians, the native people esta... more Three main ethnic groups lived in the Roman colony of Philippi: Thracians, the native people established in the area as early as the Archaic period, Greeks, who came from Thasos to control parts of the continent during the Classical period and then from Macedonia after the city of Philippi was founded by Philip II in 356 BC, and the Italian colonists settled there by Mark Antony after the battle of 42 BC. The archaeological and epigraphic evidence shows that the various deities worshipped in Philippi also had the same three origins: Thracian, Greek, and Roman (see, for instance, the Hero Aulonites, Apollo, and Jupiter Optimus Maximus). It is often assumed that each group of gods was worshipped by a specific category of the Philippian population according to ethnic identity, and that Roman deities were mainly worshipped in town, while most cults for Thracian gods were to be found in the countryside. In this paper, I will reassess this statement through a reappraisal of the numerous inscriptions documenting the religious life in the colony. I will argue that there was in Philippi no limitation of any deity to a group depending on the ethnic or social identity of the worshippers, or on the location of the votive and cultic practices. This doesn’t mean, however, that all cults in Philippi were necessarily syncretic and that there were no cultural or social differences between worshippers. But, because of the huge variety of deities and religious practices known in Roman Philippi, the study of the cultic landscape of the colony requires a more nuanced analysis going beyond the ordinary ethnic and socio-legal categories used to describe the different parts of the local population. Moreover, special attention will be paid to the local Christian community during the three first centuries after its creation by the Apostle Paul in order to compare the social composition of the Pauline ekklesia with the audience of the other religious associations attested in the colony.
in M. Lavan & C. Ando (eds.), Imperial and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford Studies in Early Empires), 2021, 255-281, 2021
in C. Brélaz and E. Rose (eds.), Civic Identity and Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Turnhout: Brepols (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages), 2021, pp. 65-90
Open Access: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.5.123816
Uploads
CV and List of publications by Cédric Brélaz
Authored Books by Cédric Brélaz
Edited Books by Cédric Brélaz
Book Project by Cédric Brélaz
Edited Journal Issues by Cédric Brélaz
Papers by Cédric Brélaz