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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sitz, Anna M., 1988- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Cultures of reading in the ancient Mediterranean.
Subjects:
Architectural inscriptions > Middle East.
Christianity and culture > Middle East.
Language and culture > Middle East.
Christianity and other religions > Middle East.
Social perception > Middle East.
Ancient.
HISTORY.
RELIGION.
Architectural inscriptions
Christianity
Christianity and culture
Interfaith relations
Language and culture
Social perception
Middle East
Architecture.
House and Home.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Afterlives of Inscriptions
  • The Use of Real or Imagined Inscriptions in Late Antique Literature
  • Preservation: Tolerating Temples and Their Texts
  • Spoliation: Integrating and Scrambling Inscriptions
  • Erasure: "Damnatio Memoriae" or Conscious Uncoupling?
  • Conclusion: Unepigraphic Readings.