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

Title
The idea of Rome in late antiquity : from eternal city to imagined utopia / Ioannis Papadopoulos.
Author
Papadopoulos, Ioannis, 1960-
Publication
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Description
234 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
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.
Series Statement
Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Uniform Title
Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 10.
Subject
  • 284-476
  • Urbanization > Italy > Rome > History
  • Social structure > Rome
  • Civilization
  • Social conditions
  • Social structure
  • Urbanization
  • Rome > Civilization
  • Rome > History
  • Rome > History > Republic, 357-417 A.D
  • Rome > Social conditions
  • Rome > History > Empire, 284-476
  • Italy > Rome
  • Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Series numbering from spine.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 22-3116
ISBN
  • 9789463723152
  • 9463723153
OCLC
1252846167
Author
Papadopoulos, Ioannis, 1960- author.
Title
The idea of Rome in late antiquity : from eternal city to imagined utopia / Ioannis Papadopoulos.
Publisher
Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 10.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229) and index.
Chronological Term
284-476
Research Call Number
JFE 22-3116
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