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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Anna M. Sitz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universität Heidelberg.
Zusammenfassung
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.
Zusatztext
Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers is another example of how a PhD thesis can be re-focused as an elegant book, and similarly traces the ways in which Christian audiences respond to the 'pagan' past.
