Rome's holy mountain : the Capitoline Hill in late antiquity /
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| Author / Creator: | Moralee, Jason, 1973- author. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, [2018] ©2018 |
| Description: | xxv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford studies in late antiquity Oxford studies in late antiquity. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11375172 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Names
- Introduction
- Knowing Your Place
- Making a Holy Mountain
- Lost in the "Dark Ages"
- Outline of the Book
- Part I. Lived-In Realities
- 1. Climbing the Capitoline Hill
- Trying to Climb the Capitoline Hill
- The Last Imperial Processions to the Capitol
- Building a New Topography of Devotion
- The Forum on Fire
- Toward a Christian Topography
- A New Imperial Itinerary
- Conclusion
- 2. Living and Working on the Capitoline Hill
- Capitoline Temples and Statues
- Rituals, Festivals, and Priests
- Decline and Renewal in the Fifth Century
- Bureaucracy and Justice
- The Physiognomy of Neighborhoods in Late Antique Rome
- Living on and Around the Capitoline Hill
- Conclusion
- 3. Christianity, the Capitoline Hill, and the End of Antiquity
- Slouching toward Byzantium
- The Establishment of the Capitoline Hill's First Church
- Oracles, Octavian's Room, and the "Tabularium"
- Two Capitolia, Two Imperial Capitals
- Conclusion
- Part II. Dreamed-Of Realities
- 4. Experiencing and Remembering the Capitoline Hill
- Envisioning and Experiencing the Capitol
- Capitolinas ascendit arces: Jerome and Praetextatus
- The Capitol and Polemics Against Constantine
- Rewriting Constantine's Pagan Apostasy
- The Capitol and the End of Empire: Olympiodorus and Procopius
- Conclusion
- 5. Learning from the Capitol's Deliverance
- The Capitol and Memories of Persecution
- The Caput in the Capitol
- A Problem of Mercy: the Siege of the Gauls in 390 BCE
- "A City in the Habit of Being on Fire": The Gothic Sack of Rome in 410 CE
- "A Remarkable and Sublime Temple": Augustine's Capitols
- Reading Augustine's Capitols at the End of Antiquity
- Conclusion
- 6. Learning from the Capitol's Destruction
- Listing Temple Destructions
- Chronicling Past Destructions of the Capitol
- Chronicling Future Destructions of the Capitol
- Evil Spirits and Owls: Portents of Ruination
- Conclusion
- 7. The Capitol and the Legends of the Saints
- The Topography of Martyrdom
- A Pope, an Emperor, and the Tarpeian Dragon
- The Anatomy of a Legend: The Acts of the Greek Martyrs
- "Christ Is My Capitol"
- The Face of Persecution: Capitoline Pontiffs
- The Capitol and the Power of the Saints
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: The Fall of the Ancient Capitol
- Finding the Capitol in the Early Middle Ages
- A Wonder in a City of Wonders
- Setting the Capitol in Motion
- The Modern Fall of the Ancient Capitol
- Bibliography
- Index
