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Hellenism in Byzantium - The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Paperback)
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Hellenism in Byzantium - The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Paperback)
Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
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This 2008 text was the first systematic study of what it meant to
be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could
alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or
cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor
Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied in each period;
the broader debates in which it was caught up; and the historical
causes of its successive transformations. The first section (100
400) shows how Romanisation and Christianisation led to the
abandonment of Hellenism as a national label and its restriction to
a negative religious sense and a positive, albeit rarefied,
cultural one. The second (1000 1300) shows how Hellenism was
revived in Byzantium and contributed to the evolution of its
culture. The discussion looks closely at the reception of the
classical tradition, which was the reason why Hellenism was always
desirable and dangerous in Christian society, and presents a new
model for understanding Byzantine civilisation.
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