From temple to church [[electronic resource] ] : destruction and renewal of local cultic topography in late antiquity / / edited by Johannes Hahn, Stephen Emmel & Ulrich Gotter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454942803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-39630-7; 9786612396304; 90-474-4373-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Collana: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, , 0927-7633 ; ; v. 163
• Altri autori (Persone): HahnJohannes <1957->; EmmelStephen; GotterUlrich
• Disciplina: 261.2/2
• Soggetti: Christianity and other religions; Temples; Religion - History; Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: "From temple to church" : analysing a late antique phenomenon of transformation / Stephen Emmel, Ulrich Gotter and Johannes Hahn -- Models and evidence in the study of religion in late Roman Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall -- Rechtgläubige-Pagane-Häretiker : Tempelzerstörungen in der Kerchengeschichtsschreibung und das bild der christlichen Kaiser / Ulrich Gotter -- From temple to cell, from gods to demons : pagan temples in the monastic topography of fourth-century Egypt / David Brakke -- The Christianization of pagan temples in the Greek hagiographical texts / Helen Saradi -- Iconoclasm and Christianization in late antique Egypt : Christian treatments of space and image / David Frankfurter -- Shenoute of Atripe and the Christian destruction of temples in Egypt : rhetoric and reality / Stephen Emmel -- Die Zerstörung der Kulte von Philae : Geschichte und Legende am ersten Nilkatarakt / Johannes Hahn -- The conversion of the temple of ; Aphrodite at Aphrodisias in context / Angelos Chaniotis -- Continuity and change in the cultic topography of late antique Palestine / Doron Bar -- Modalitäten der Zerstörung und Christianisierung pharaonischer Tempelanlagen / Peter Grossmann -- The conversion of the cult statues : the destruction of the Serapeum 392 A.D. and the transformation of Alexandria into the "Christ-loving" city / Johannes Hahn.
• Sommario/riassunto: Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception. Contemporaries were aware of these events’ far-reaching symbolic significance and of their immediate impact as demonstrations of political power and religious conviction. Joined in any “temple-destruction” are the meaning of the monument, actions taken, and subsequent literary discourse. Paradigms of perception, specific interests, and forms of expression of quite various protagonists clashed. Archaeologists, historians, and historians of religion illuminate “temple-destruction” from different perspectives, analysing local configurations within larger contexts, both regional and imperial, in order to find an appropriate larger perspective on this phenomenon within the late antique movement “from temple to church”.

Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities : History, Archaeology, Empire / / by Takis Kayalis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910770258803321
• Autore: Kayalis Takis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
• ISBN: 9783031349027; 3031349024
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2024.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Collana: The New Antiquity, , 2946-3025
• Disciplina: 889.132
• Soggetti: Poetry; Classical literature; Literature, Ancient; Literature, Modern - 19th century; European literature; History, Ancient; Poetry and Poetics; Classical and Antique Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; European Literature; Classical Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1 Introduction -- Part I: Cavafy Reads a Coin -- 2 A golden coin? -- 3 How to read a coin portrait in the early 1900s -- 4 What is a ‘poet-historian’? -- Part II: Cavafy Reads Inscriptions -- 5 ‘Caesarion’ as palimpsest -- 6 ‘In the month of Athyr’: Leucius and his friends -- Part III: Looking at Antiquity from Inside the Empire -- 7 Imperial desires -- 8 A Hellenistic Empire -- 9 How to read Cavafy inside the British Empire.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities is a fascinating and meticulous study of how the Greek poet breathes life into artefacts and textual fragments from the classical past. Kayalis delves deeply into the poems in order to ; lay bare the extraordinary complexity that hides beneath the surface. His book shows that modern poetry, modern homosexuality and even British imperialism were shaped by encounters with Hellenistic culture." – Stefano Evangelista, Professor of English, University of Oxford "Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities offers an original critique of the poet as a belated antiquarian by redefining his archaeological poetics and aligning them with his Anglophilia and colonial positionality. Kayalis’s revisionist appraisal of Cavafy’s historicism presents compelling new readings of signature poems and forges new connections to overlooked homoerotic and popular sources. A brilliant contribution to Cavafy studies." – Peter Jeffreys, Associate Professor of English, Suffolk University This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized receptions of antiquity that marked the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on selected poems which stage readings of Hellenistic and late ancient texts and material objects, this study probes the poet's personal library and archive to trace his scholarly sources and scrutinize their contribution to his creative practice. A new understanding of Cavafy's historicism emerges by comparing his poetics to a broad array of discourses and intellectual pursuits of his time; these range from antiquarianism, physiognomy and Egyptomania to cultural appropriations of the classics which sought to legitimate British colonial rule as well as homoerotic desire. As this volume demonstrates, Cavafy embraced antiquarianism as an empathetic and passionate way of relating to the past and shaped it into a method that allowed his poetry to render modern meanings to Hellenistic antiquities. Takis Kayalis is Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. He has published extensively on nineteenth-century prose and modernist poetry and co-edited Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning (2010) and Cavafy as World Literature (forthcoming). In 2019 he co-curated the Cavafy Archive’s Digital Collection (Onassis Foundation).