Kaldellis, Anthony
Hellenism in Byzantium

The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition.

Through close readings of the sources, Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied in each period; the broader debates in which it was caught up; and the historical causes of its successive transformations. The first section (100-400) shows how Romanisation and Christianisation led to the abandonment of Hellenism as a national label and its restriction to a negative religious sense and a positive, albeit rarefied, cultural one. The second (1000-1300) shows how Hellenism was revived in Byzantium and contributed to the evolution of its culture. XI,468 Seiten, gebunden (Greek Culture in the Roman World/Cambridge University Press 2007) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed