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Cambridge University Press The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens

Name: The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens
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Byzantine Athens was not a city without a history, as is commonly believed, but an important center about which much can now be said. Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its conversion into a church. Paradoxically, it was more important as a church than it had been as a temple: the Byzantine period was its true age of glory. He examines the idiosyncratic fusion of pagan and Christian culture that took place in Athens, where an attempt was made to replicate the classical past in Christian terms, affecting rhetoric, monuments, and miracles. He also re-evaluates the reception of ancient ruins in Byzantine Greece and presents for the first time a form of pilgrimage that was directed not toward icons, Holy Lands, or holy men but toward a monument embodying a permanent cultural tension and religious dialectic.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521882281
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Structures
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Release Date: 09 April 2009
Listed Since: 18 September 2008

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