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c1986
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Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the nature of European epic. The Neoplatonist reading was to be decisive in the birth of allegorical epic in late antiquity and forms the background for the next...
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume Volume 24
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[1995]
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1 online resource (271 pages).
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume Volume 23
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[1995]
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1 online resource (xviii, 280 pages).
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume 30
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c2000
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xiii, 219 p.
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With its unique focus on the sensory dimensions of pilgrimage - especially visuality - this book widens our understanding of early Christian pilgrims and those who read their accounts.
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume 32
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c2001
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xv, 235 p. : ill.
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Explores the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defence of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. These problems of representation provide a window on Late Antique thought.
"Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial,...
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2002
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xiv, 454 p. : ill., maps.
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Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople.
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume 33
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2002
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An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries. This study explores this type of Christian poverty and the challenge it posed for episcopal authority.
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume 35
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c2003
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xviii, 272 p. : ill., map.
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Clothing, jewellery, animal remains, coins and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to the eighth centuries. This text traces the history of Merovingian mortuary archaeology within its cultural and intellectual contexts.
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume 36
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c2004
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xxix, 390 p. : ill., map.
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume 38
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c2005
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This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity--the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world--by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time.
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c2005
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Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop--as the highest Church official in his city--from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has...
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume 39
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2005
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xiv, 396 p.
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There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, a unique period shaped by the marriage of Christian ideology and Roman imperial power
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume 40
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Explores the history of Christianity in Iraq. This study uses an early seventh-century Christian martyr legend to elucidate the culture and society of late antique Iraq. It introduces a hero of epic proportions whose characteristics confound simple classification.
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c2007
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xiv, 312 p.
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Himerius' speeches, a rich source on the intellectual life of late antiquity, capture the flavour of student life in Athens illuminating relations in the educated community and illustrating the ongoing civic role of the sophist.
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c2008
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What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion, & what motivated them to change those rituals? Clifford Ando explores the answers to these questions, pursuing a variety of themes essential to the study of religion in history.
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume 45
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c2009
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xx, 425 p. : ill.
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This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred kingship that emerged in the late Roman and Persian empires. This shared ideal, while often generating conflict during the four centuries of the empires' coexistence (224-642), also drove exchange, especially the means and methods Roman and Persian sovereigns used to project...
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Transformation of the classical heritage volume 47
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c2010
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xvii, 351 p., [2] p. of plates : ill.
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This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian North Africa, tracing that region's social and cultural history from the Punic times to the eve of the Islamic conquest. She demonstrates that...
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c2010
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xv, 342 p. : ill.
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Theodoret's People sheds new light on religious clashes of the mid-fifth century regarding the nature (or natures) of Christ. Adam M. Schor focuses on Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, his Syrian allies, and his opponents, led by Alexandrian bishops Cyril and Dioscorus. Although both sets of clerics adhered to the Nicene creed, their contrasting theological statements led to hostilities, violence, and the permanent fracturing of the Christian community....



