Athens II Athens in Late Antiquity 1st Edition by Ilinca Tanaseanu Döbler, Leonie Von Alvensleben ISBN 3161582977 9783161582974

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ISBN 10: 3161582977
ISBN 13: 9783161582974
Author: Ilinca Tanaseanu Döbler, Leonie Von Alvensleben

Together with Jerusalem and Rome, Athens stands today as a symbol of European culture. This image goes back a long way, having received a lasting imprint from the developments of Late Antiquity. The present volume focuses on this period, exploring the cultural and religious transformations of the city and the creation of symbolic images of Athens from the fourth to the sixth centuries AD from a variety of perspectives, including archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, Byzantine studies, and the history of religions. The contributions retrace reconfigurations of urban space and their impact on the sacred topography of Athens, as well as the changes in the Athenian panorama of learning and religion, uncovering various strategies employed to appropriate or counteract the Athenian past and its symbolic capital, whether by means of genealogy, by architectonic measures or by constructing literary images of the city suited to supporting particular claims. From the various competing discourses over the city, Late Antique Athens emerges as an emblem of higher learning and pagan religion, an image bequeathed to later European intellectual history

Athens II Athens in Late Antiquity 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. The Late Antique Cityscape of Athens

2. Pagan Philosophers and Christian Thinkers

3. Religious Continuity and Change in the Athenian Landscape

4. Urban Society and Everyday Life

5. The Role of Athens in the Late Antique Empire

6. Archaeological Perspectives on Late Antique Athens

7. Art and Architecture in the Transition to Christianity

8. The End of the Ancient City and the Beginning of the Byzantine Era

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