The Idea of Rome in Late Antiquity : : From Eternal City to Imagined Utopia / / Ioannis Papadopoulos.

The aim of this book is to approach the manifestation and evolution of the idea of Rome as an expression of Roman patriotism and as an (urban) archetype of utopia in late Roman thought in a period extending from AD 357 to 417. Within this period of about a human lifetime, the concepts of Rome and Ro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (262 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • In Memoriam
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Between a Physical and an Imaginary City
  • I. Looking Backwards: Ordo Renascendi
  • II. The Adventus of Constantius
  • III. Between Rome and Athens
  • IV. Between the Altar and the Court
  • V. Between Christ and a Roman Place
  • VI Between Jerusalem and Babylon
  • Conclusions: From Rome to Eternity
  • Bibliography
  • Index