Format:
1 online resource (482 pages)
ISBN:
9780511375873
Series Statement:
Greek Culture in the Roman World
Content:
This text examines what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I Greeks, Romans, and Christians in late antiquity -- CHAPTER 1 ''We too are Greeks!'': the legacies of Hellenism -- Classical Greece -- The Hellenistic World -- The Second Sophistic -- CHAPTER 2 ''The world a city'': Romans of the East -- Becoming Roman -- The Translation of Romania -- Byzantium as a Nation-State -- The Myth of the ''Multi-Ethnic Empire'' -- The Fictions of Ecumenical Ideology -- Where did all the Greeks go? -- CHAPTER 3 ''Nibbling on Greek learning'': the Christian predicament -- Between Greeks and Barbarians, Within Hellenism -- The Challenge of Hellenism -- The Legacy of Julian -- Ours or Theirs? The Uneasy Patristic Settlement -- Conclusion: The End of Ancient Hellenism -- INTERLUDE Hellenism in limbo: the middle years (400-1040) -- PART II Hellenic revivals in Byzantium -- CHAPTER 4 Michael Psellos and the instauration of philosophy -- ''Unblocking the Streams of Philosophy'' -- Science and Dissimulation -- Between Body and Soul: A New Humanism -- Hellenes in the Eleventh Century? -- CHAPTER 5 The Third Sophistic: the performance of Hellenism under the Komnenoi -- Anathema upon Philosophy -- Emperors and sophists -- Hellenism as an Expansion of Moral and Aesthetic Categories -- Hellenic Fantasy Worlds: The New Romance Novels -- A Philosopher's Novel: Prodromos on Religion and War -- Hellenic Afterworlds: The Timarion -- Toward a New Hellenic Identity -- Anti-Latin Hellenism -- Ioannes Tzetzes: Professional Classicism -- Eustathios of Thessalonike: Scholar, Bishop, Humanist -- CHAPTER 6 Imperial failure and the emergence of national Hellenism -- Michael Choniates and the ''Blessed'' Greeks -- Athens: A Christian City and its Classicist Bishop -- East and West: Negotiating Labels in 1204.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521876889
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521876889
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Kaldellēs, Antōnios Emm., 1971 - Hellenism in Byzantium Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007 ISBN 0521876885
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521876889
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Römisches Reich
;
Griechen
;
Identität
;
Geschichte 100-400
;
Hellenismus
;
Rezeption
;
Byzantinisches Reich
;
Geschichte 1000-1300
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=328936
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2008295257-b.html
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