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Rome's holy mountain : the Capitoline Hill in late antiquity / Jason Moralee.
LIBRA DG66 .M667 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moralee, Jason, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in late antiquity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitoline Hill (Italy)--History.
- Capitoline Hill (Italy).
- Rome--History.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- History.
- Rome (Italy)--Antiquities.
- Rome (Italy).
- Rome (Italy)--History--To 476.
- Antiquities.
- Italy--Capitoline Hill.
- Italy--Rome.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Late Antiquity has unified what in the past were disparate disciplinary, chronological, and geographical areas of study. Welcoming a wide array of methodological approaches, this book series provides a venue for the finest new scholarship on the period, ranging from the later Roman empire to the Byzantine, Sasanid, early Islamic, and early Carolingian worlds. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Knowing Your Place 1
- Making a Holy Mountain 9
- Lost in the "Dark Ages" 17
- Outline of the Book 22
- Part I Lived-In Realities
- 1 Climbing the Capitoline Hill 29
- Trying to Climb the Capitoline Hill 32
- The Last Imperial Processions to the Capitol 37
- Building a New Topography of Devotion 42
- The Forum on Fire 44
- Toward a Christian Topography 49
- A New Imperial Itinerary 51
- Conclusion 55
- 2 Living and Working on the Capitoline Hill 57
- Capitoline Temples and Statues 57
- Rituals, Festivals, and Priests 59
- Decline and Renewal in the Fifth Century 62
- Bureaucracy and Justice 67
- The Physiognomy of Neighborhoods in Late Antique Rome 70
- Living on and Around the Capitoline Hill 73
- Conclusion 84
- 3 Christianity, the Capitoline Hill, and the End of Antiquity 87
- Slouching toward Byzantium 88
- The Establishment of the Capitoline Hill's First Church 92
- Oracles, Octavian's Room, and the "Tabularium" 99
- Two Capitolia, Two Imperial Capitals 104
- Conclusion 109
- Part II Dreamed-Of Realities
- 4 Experiencing and Remembering the Capitoline Hill 113
- Envisioning and Experiencing the Capitol 114
- Capitolinas ascendit arces: Jerome and Praetextatus 121
- The Capitol and Polemics Against Constantine 123
- Rewriting Constantine's Pagan Apostasy 127
- The Capitol and the End of Empire: Olympiodorus and Procopius 129
- Conclusion 135
- 5 Learning from the Capitol's Deliverance 139
- The Capitol and Memories of Persecution 140
- The Caput in the Capitol 144
- A Problem of Mercy: the Siege of the Gauls in 390 BCE 147
- "A City in the Habit of Being on Fire": The Gothic Sack of Rome in 410 CE 150
- "A Remarkable and Sublime Temple": Augustine's Capitols 154
- Reading Augustine's Capitols at the End of Antiquity 161
- Conclusion 163
- 6 Learning from the Capitol's Destruction 165
- Listing Temple Destructions 167
- Chronicling Past Destructions of the Capitol 173
- Chronicling Future Destructions of the Capitol 177
- Evil Spirits and Owls: Portents of Ruination 180
- Conclusion 182
- 7 The Capitol and the Legends of the Saints 185
- The Topography of Martyrdom 187
- A Pope, an Emperor, and the Tarpeian Dragon 190
- The Anatomy of a Legend: The Acts of the Greek Martyrs 192
- "Christ Is My Capitol" 198
- The Face of Persecution: Capitoline Pontiffs 201
- The Capitol and the Power of the Saints 203
- Conclusion 206.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0190492279
- 9780190492274
- OCLC:
- 992734045
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