Christian responses to Roman art and architecture : the second-century church amid the spaces of empire /
| Main Author: | Nasrallah, Laura Salah, 1969- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Christian apologists and the second-century built environment
- Bringing together literature and archaeological remains
- Framing the question, framing the world
- What is an apology? : Christian apologies and the so-called Second Sophistic
- What does it mean to apologize?
- Addressing the Roman emperors, being Greek
- Defining the so-called Second Sophistic
- Traveling to Olympia : material manifestations of Greek Paideia and imperial address
- The Fountain of Regilla and Herodes Atticus
- Apologetics and christianness
- What is the space of the Roman Empire? : mapping, bodies, and knowledge in the Roman world
- Traveling men : Lucian, Tatian, and Justin
- Lucian
- Tatian
- Justin
- The Sebasteion in Aphrodisias
- Into the cities
- What informs the geographical imagination? : the Acts of the Apostles and Greek cities under Rome
- Placing Acts
- The Panhellenion
- Hadrian, ethnicity, and true religion
- What has Athens to do with Rome?
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- Traveling back to Acts
- Acts 2
- Paul in Lystra and Athens : confusing humans and gods
- Paul in Thessalonikē and Philippi : Roman sedition against Rome?
- What is justice? what is piety? what is Paideia : Justin, the forum of Trajan in Rome, and a crisis of mimēsis
- The column of Trajan
- Justin's apologies
- Names and deeds : Justin introduces himself, the emperors, and the mock court
- On the name
- The name and speech-acts
- A higher court
- Mimēsis, images, and daimones
- Sameness and difference
- Justice, piety, and Paideia in the Forum of Trajan
- The forum's surroundings
- Moving through the forum of Trajan
- War and the ""temple of peace""
- Human bodies and the image(s) of god(s)
- How do you know God? : Athenagoras on names and images
- ""This golden one, this Herakles, this God"" : Commodus and Herakles
- The ambivalence of Herakles
- Commodus as Herakles
- A proliferation of signs
- Athenagoras
- Athenagoras's argument : the proemium
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- Grammar and theology
- Atheism and piety ""in the presence of philosopher-kings""
- The material gods
- What do we learn when we look? (part I) images, desire, and Tatian's to the Greeks
- What an image does
- The origins of images
- What you see and what you get : theorizing vision
- Images and the theological imagination : Cicero, Dio, and Maximus of Tyre
- Tatian, spectacle, and connoisseurship
- Tatian at the theater
- Tatian's grand tour
- What do we learn when we look? (part II) Aphrodite and Clement of Alexandria
- The Knidian Aphrodite and her afterlife
- Aphrodite at Knidos
- Pseudo-Lucian and the Knidia
- The Knidia and the ancient gaze
- The Knidia and Roman portraits
- Clement of Alexandria
- Alexandria, the mad, hybrid, spectacular city
- Introducing clement's Exhortation
- ""They say a girl loved an image"" : The exhortation on statues, piety, and desire
- Clement on the Knidian Aphrodite
- Stories of the gods : the pornographic Venus and Mars.