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Hellenism in Byzantium : the transformations of Greek identity and the reception of the classical tradition /

This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaldellis, Anthony
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series:Greek culture in the Roman world.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Greeks, Romans, and Christians in late antiquity
  • "We too are Greeks!": the legacies of Hellenism
  • "The world a city": Romans of the east
  • "Nibbling on Greek learning": the Christian predicament
  • Hellenism in limbo: the middle years (400-1040)
  • Hellenic revivals in Byzantium
  • Michael Psellos and the instauration of philosophy
  • The third sophistic: the performance of Hellenism under the Kimnenoi
  • Imperial failure and the emergence of national Hellenism.