Pagan city and Christian capital : Rome in the fourth century /
| Основен автор: | Curran, John R. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Серия: |
Oxford classical monographs.
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Pagan city and Christian capital. |
Съдържание:
- 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 Christianization' in Rome
- Illustrations
- Bibliography.