Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity

Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Leonie von Alvensleben (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 498 Seiten

2020
Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)
978-3-16-158297-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Geboren 1979; seit 2015 Professorin für Religionswissenschaft - Schwerpunkt Europäische Religionsgeschichte an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Born 1987; studied Classics and German Philology in Göttingen and Bologna; since 2015 PhD candidate in Classics at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Civitatum Orbis MEditerranei Studia
Verlagsort	Tübingen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 241 mm
Gewicht	896 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
Schlagworte	Hellenism • Neoplatonism • Philosophy • Religion • rhetoric
ISBN-10	3-16-158297-7 / 3161582977
ISBN-13	978-3-16-158297-4 / 9783161582974
Zustand	Neuware