Pagan inscriptions, Christian viewers : the afterlives of temples and their texts in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean /

"What did people in the early Christian period (4th-7th century CE) think about the ancient, pagan inscriptions filling their cities? Why, for example, is the famous Res Gestae of the "divine" Augustus almost perfectly preserved on the walls of a temple in Ankara in Asia Minor, even t...

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