1st Edition
The Idea of Rome in Late Antiquity From Eternal City to Imagined Utopia
By Ioannis Papadopoulos
Copyright 2021
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book approaches 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 Romanitas were reshaped and used for various ideological causes. This monograph unfolds through a selection of... Read more
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.
Biography
Ioannis Papadopoulos is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of History of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, focusing on identity issues in Roman Greece and on traces of anti-Roman discourse in the works of the Second Sophistic.
