TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Pagan inscriptions, Christian viewers : the afterlives of temples and their texts in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean
T2  - Cultures of reading in the Ancient Mediterranean
A1  - Sitz, Anna M., 1988- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5635844
AB  - "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 though the city became a Christian imperial center? The prima facie explanation-that late Romans ignored the older epigraphic material around them-is proven untrue in this book. By gathering both literary and archaeological evidence, this study indicates that early Christians (and late pagans, Jews) in the eastern Mediterranean interpreted older inscriptions in Greek and other languages through their own worldviews. After establishing the modes of reading ancient inscriptions in the textual sources, the book presents a series of archaeological case studies spanning from Greece to Egypt, which reveal three possible reactions to epigraphic material-preservation, spoliation, and erasure-at pagan sanctuaries, the physical and discursive spaces in which the "culture wars" of early Christian hegemony were fought. Intersecting with research on spolia, damnatio memoriae, and the fates of pagan statues, this book makes a critical intervention in the fields of epigraphy and archaeology by arguing for the transtemporal agency of inscriptions. It adds a new facet to the study of "Christianization" in the Roman world by proposing that ancient inscriptions contributed to broader attitudes about the (pagan) past in late antiquity, attitudes that continued to color how people in the medieval period and beyond evaluated classical patrimony"--
NO  - Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2017, under the title: The writing on the wall : inscriptions and memory in the temples of late antique Greece and Asia Minor.
SN  - 978-0-19-766643-2 kovakantinen
SN  - 0197666434
KW  - antiikki
KW  - myöhäisantiikki
KW  - epigrafia
KW  - piirtokirjoitukset
KW  - reseptio
KW  - pakanuus
KW  - varhaiskristillisyys
KW  - kristinusko
KW  - uskonto ja uskonnot
KW  - arkeologia
KW  - Architectural inscriptions : Middle East.
KW  - Christianity and culture : Middle East.
KW  - Language and culture : Middle East.
KW  - Christianity and other religions : Middle East.
KW  - Social perception : Middle East.
KW  - Architectural inscriptions.
KW  - Christianity.
KW  - Christianity and culture.
KW  - Interfaith relations.
KW  - Language and culture.
KW  - Social perception.
KW  - antiken
KW  - senantiken
KW  - epigrafi
KW  - inskrifter
KW  - reception (mottagande)
KW  - hedendom
KW  - tidig kristendom
KW  - kristendom
KW  - religion och religioner
KW  - arkeologi
KW  - Middle East.
ER  -