New perspectives on late antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire /
The present volume presents some of the latest research trends in the study of Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire from a multi-disciplinary perspective, encompassing not only social, economic and political history, but also philology, philosophy and legal history. The volume focuses on the i...
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Language: English
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholar Publishing,
2014.
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Call Number: DF555 .N49 2014
Table of Contents:
- I ; the last pagan at the court of zeno ; II ; bar sauma versus dushara; religious conflictin late antique egypt; the portrait of seleukeiain the miracles of saint thekla; poetry and philosophyat the boundaries of byzantium (5th-7th centuries); III ; byzantium and the eastern frontier; new alphabetsfor the christian nations; synesios of cyrene and the defenceof cyrenaica ; one elephant and two giraffeson the incense route ; IV ; the influence of the orienton the dramatic representationof ammianus marcellinus' res gestae.
- Centring constantinoplein himerios' oratio 41speculation and crisis; between the third romeand the new jerusalem; V ; from vetus byzantium (amm. 22.8.8) to urbs regia; the so-called "collatio lustralis"in postclassical period; on the legal and social statusof theatre actorsin late antique law; the fanatic is a fan in a madhouse; epilogue; bibliography; contributors.