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The Idea of Rome in Late Antiquity : From Eternal City to Imagined Utopia / Ioannis Papadopoulos.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 10Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048553518
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 937 23
LOC classification:
  • DG209 .P37 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- In Memoriam -- 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 -- IV. Between the Altar and the Court -- V. Between Christ and a Roman Place -- VI Between Jerusalem and Babylon -- Conclusions: From Rome to Eternity -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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 Romanitas were reshaped and used for various ideological causes. This monograph is unfolding through a selection of sources that represent the patterns and diversity of this ideological process. The theme of Rome as a personified and anthropomorphic figure and as an epitomized notion ‘applied’ on the urban landscape of the city would become part of the identity of the Romans of Rome highlighting a sense of cultural uniqueness in comparison to the inhabitants of other cities. Towards the end of the chronological limits set in this thesis various versions of Romanitas would emerge indicating new physical and spiritual potentials.
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Frontmatter -- In Memoriam -- 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 -- IV. Between the Altar and the Court -- V. Between Christ and a Roman Place -- VI Between Jerusalem and Babylon -- Conclusions: From Rome to Eternity -- Bibliography -- Index

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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 Romanitas were reshaped and used for various ideological causes. This monograph is unfolding through a selection of sources that represent the patterns and diversity of this ideological process. The theme of Rome as a personified and anthropomorphic figure and as an epitomized notion ‘applied’ on the urban landscape of the city would become part of the identity of the Romans of Rome highlighting a sense of cultural uniqueness in comparison to the inhabitants of other cities. Towards the end of the chronological limits set in this thesis various versions of Romanitas would emerge indicating new physical and spiritual potentials.

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In English.

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