Tanaseanu-Döbler / von Alvensleben Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-16-158298-1
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 507 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 896 g

Reihe: Civitatum Orbis MEditerranei Studia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tanaseanu-Döbler, Ilinca

Alvensleben, Leonie von

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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

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