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Two Romes - Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Two Romes - Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
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The city of Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very
soon after its foundation in AD 324; over the next two hundred
years it replaced the original Rome as the greatest city of the
Mediterranean. In this unified essay collection, prominent
international scholars examine the changing roles and perceptions
of Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity from a range of
different disciplines and scholarly perspectives. The seventeen
chapters cover both the comparative development and the shifting
status of the two cities. Developments in politics and urbanism are
considered, along with the cities' changing relationships with
imperial power, the church, and each other, and their evolving
representations in both texts and images. These studies present
important revisionist arguments and new interpretations of
significant texts and events. This comparative perspective allows
the neglected subject of the relationship between the two Romes to
come into focus while avoiding the teleological distortions common
in much past scholarship.
An introductory section sets the cities, and their comparative
development, in context. Part Two looks at topography, and includes
the first English translation of the Notitia of Constantinople. The
following section deals with politics proper, considering the role
of emperors in the two Romes and how rulers interacted with their
cities. Part Four then considers the cities through the prism of
literature, in particular through the distinctively late antique
genre of panegyric. The fifth group of essays considers a crucial
aspect shared by the two cities: their role as Christian capitals.
Lastly, a provocative epilogue looks at the enduring Roman identity
of the post-Heraclian Byzantine state. Thus, Two Romes not only
illuminates the study of both cities but also enriches our
understanding of the late Roman world in its entirety.
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