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Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Civitatum Orbis MEditerranei Studia, 4
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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.
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