The idea of Rome in late antiquity : from eternal city to imagined utopia /

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Papadopoulos, Ioannis (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Colección:Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Temas:
Utopias > Rome.
Utopies > Rome.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
Early history: c. 500 to c. 1450/1500.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
Classical antiquities.
Utopias.
Ancient history.
European history: the Romans.
European history: medieval period, middle ages.
Rome > History.
Rome > Antiquities, Roman.
Rome > Histoire.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • 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
  • The Artificial Romanitas of Julian
  • IV. Between the Altar and the Court
  • Symmachus and Claudian in Action
  • V. Between Christ and a Roman Place
  • The Emergence of Christian Rome in Time and Space
  • VI. Between Jerusalem and Babylon
  • The Archetype of Rome in the City of God
  • Conclusions: From Rome to Eternity
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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