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The Christian Parthenon - Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens (Hardcover)
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The Christian Parthenon - Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens (Hardcover)
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Byzantine Athens was not a city without a history, as is commonly
believed, but an important center about which much can now be said.
Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that
the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its
conversion into a church. Paradoxically, it was more important as a
church than it had been as a temple: the Byzantine period was its
true age of glory. He examines the idiosyncratic fusion of pagan
and Christian culture that took place in Athens, where an attempt
was made to replicate the classical past in Christian terms,
affecting rhetoric, monuments, and miracles. He also re-evaluates
the reception of ancient ruins in Byzantine Greece and presents for
the first time a form of pilgrimage that was directed not toward
icons, Holy Lands, or holy men but toward a monument embodying a
permanent cultural tension and religious dialectic.
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