Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers provides a fresh perspective on the Christianization of the Roman empire from the fourth to the seventh century CE by analyzing a previously overlooked body of evidence: the many ancient, pagan inscriptions, written in Greek or other languages, which were reused, preserved, or even partially erased in this period.
Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers provides a fresh perspective on the Christianization of the Roman empire from the fourth to the seventh century CE by analyzing a previously overlooked body of evidence: the many ancient, pagan inscriptions, written in Greek or other languages, which were reused, preserved, or even partially erased in this period.
Anna M. Sitz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universität Heidelberg.
Inhaltsangabe
* Chapter 1. Introduction: Afterlives of Inscriptions * Epigraphic Reincarnation at Megara * Manufactured Violence * Inscribed Sanctuaries * Literacy in Late Antiquity * Chapter Outline * The Fine Print * Chapter 2. The Use of Real or Imagined Inscriptions in Late Antique Literature * The "Arch of Alexander" and the Ends of the Earth * Writing the Past from Inscriptions * Prophesying from Stone: Invented Oracles * Plagiarizing for the Saints: The Life of Abercius * Conclusion: The Literary Afterlives of Ancient Inscriptions * Chapter 3. Preservation: Tolerating Temples and Their Texts * Touring Temples * Inscribed Text and Figural Imagery at Unconverted Temples * Secular or Sacred? Imperial Documents on Temples of Uncertain Use * Priests, Talking Columns, and Unreadable Texts at Christianized Temples * Conclusion: Kings of the Past on Display * Chapter 4. Spoliation: Integrating and Scrambling tions-Inscrip * (T)reading the Past: Epigraphic Spolia Underfoot * Constructing Churches with Inscribed Text * Epigraphic Spolia Elsewhere * Conclusion: Mixed Re-Views of Old Texts in New Buildings * Chapter 5. Erasure: [[Damnatio Memoriae]] or Conscious Uncoupling? * Unnaming the Gods * Violence Against Statues * Violence Against Inscriptions * Selective Erasures * Indiscriminate Erasure and Destruction * Conclusion: Epigraphic Unnamings and a Fresh Start * Chapter 6. Conclusion: Unepigraphic Readings * Reading at the Temple of Augustus in Ankara Once More * An Archaeology of Reading * Spolia: Breaking the Monolith * Word and Image: Inscriptions and Statues * Land, Men, and Gods * Epigraphy: A New Direction * Bibliography
* Chapter 1. Introduction: Afterlives of Inscriptions * Epigraphic Reincarnation at Megara * Manufactured Violence * Inscribed Sanctuaries * Literacy in Late Antiquity * Chapter Outline * The Fine Print * Chapter 2. The Use of Real or Imagined Inscriptions in Late Antique Literature * The "Arch of Alexander" and the Ends of the Earth * Writing the Past from Inscriptions * Prophesying from Stone: Invented Oracles * Plagiarizing for the Saints: The Life of Abercius * Conclusion: The Literary Afterlives of Ancient Inscriptions * Chapter 3. Preservation: Tolerating Temples and Their Texts * Touring Temples * Inscribed Text and Figural Imagery at Unconverted Temples * Secular or Sacred? Imperial Documents on Temples of Uncertain Use * Priests, Talking Columns, and Unreadable Texts at Christianized Temples * Conclusion: Kings of the Past on Display * Chapter 4. Spoliation: Integrating and Scrambling tions-Inscrip * (T)reading the Past: Epigraphic Spolia Underfoot * Constructing Churches with Inscribed Text * Epigraphic Spolia Elsewhere * Conclusion: Mixed Re-Views of Old Texts in New Buildings * Chapter 5. Erasure: [[Damnatio Memoriae]] or Conscious Uncoupling? * Unnaming the Gods * Violence Against Statues * Violence Against Inscriptions * Selective Erasures * Indiscriminate Erasure and Destruction * Conclusion: Epigraphic Unnamings and a Fresh Start * Chapter 6. Conclusion: Unepigraphic Readings * Reading at the Temple of Augustus in Ankara Once More * An Archaeology of Reading * Spolia: Breaking the Monolith * Word and Image: Inscriptions and Statues * Land, Men, and Gods * Epigraphy: A New Direction * Bibliography
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