Pagan city and Christian capital: Rome in the fourth century
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1. Verfasser: Curran, John R. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Clarendon Press 2000
Schriftenreihe:Oxford classical monographs
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-383) and index
Cover -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I: Topography -- 1: Emperors, Gods, and Violence in Third-Century Rome -- Introduction -- Public Building and the Topography of Rome on the Third Century -- Soldiers and Civilians -- The Christian Community in Rome -- Conclusion -- 2: Conservator Urbis: Maxentius in Rome -- Introduction: Rome and the Tetrarchs -- The Usurpation of Maxentius -- Building Activity in Rome -- Maxentius and the Christians -- The End -- Conclusion -- 3: Constantine and Rome: The Context of Innovation -- Introduction -- Constantine and the Centre of Rome: October 312 -- Constantine and the Destruction of the Memory of Maxentius in the Centre of Rome -- Constantine's Christian Buildings in Rome -- Conclusion -- 4: The Christianization of the Topography of Rome, AD 337-384 -- Introduction -- Bishop Julius and His Predecessors -- The Basilica-Mausoleum Complex on the Via Nomentana --
- Liberius and Felix -- Damasus and Ursinus -- The Roman Churches of Damasus -- The Epigrammata of Damasus -- Conclusion -- Part II: Society -- 5: The Legal Standing of the Ancient Cults of Rome -- Introduction -- Working with the Theodosian Code -- Constantine -- The House of Constantine -- Julian and Jovian -- Valentinian and the West -- Gratian, Valentinian II, and the West -- Theodosius -- Conclusion -- 6: Paganism, Christianity and the Imperial Celebrations in the Circus Maximus During the Fourth Century -- Introduction -- The Festival Calendar -- The Importance of the Circus Games -- The Iconography of the Circus Maximus in the Fourth Century -- The Pompa Circi and the Christian Emperor -- Conclusion -- 7: Jerome, Asceticism, and the Roman Aristocracy, AD 340-410 -- Introduction -- The Roman Aristocracy Redefined -- The Context of Senatorial Asceticism -- Christian Asceticism: Points of Conflict -- Jerome and the 'Sham': Christians of Rome --
- Melania the Younger, Valerius Pinianus and the Fall of Rome -- Status in an Ascetic Context -- Conclusion -- Towards an Understanding of C̀hristianization' in Rome -- Illustrations -- Bibliography
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 389 pages)
ISBN:0191541508
0198152787
1423767691
9780191541506
9780198152781
9781423767695

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