The Christian Parthenon : Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens

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The Christian Parthenon : Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine AthensByzantine 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

a classic - together with its Northern Greece counterpart

Petronius' Satyrica has long been popular with readers of Latin: it is one of the few texts that offers a glimpse into non-elite society in the early Roman imperial period

αγωνία

revealing the creative debt of the Odyssey to the Iliadic model

and various details of character and personal appearance

ερωτευμένοι και μέσα από περιπέτειες τελικά βγαίνουν αδιάφθοροι

The variety of its topics

a character whose strength

In the century and more after that other hands intervened

Why was the Roman army so successful

αλληλοεπηρεάζονται και ανακαλύπτουν καινούριες πτυχές της προσωπικότητάς τους και της φιλίας τους

Ovid drew on Greek mythology

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