Hellenism in Byzantium : the transformations of Greek identity and the reception of the classical tradition /

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Author / Creator:	Kaldellis, Anthony.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 468 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Greek culture in the Roman world Greek culture in the Roman world.
Subject:	Hellenism. Civilization. Hellenism. Byzantine Empire -- Civilization. Greece -- Civilization. Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D. Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527. Byzantine Empire. Greece. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11814637

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ISBN:	9780511378614 0511378610 9780511496356 0511496354 9780521876889 0521876885 1107182786 9781107182783 1281243159 9781281243157 9786611243159 6611243151 0511376812 9780511376818 0511375875 9780511375873 0511374372 9780511374371
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-452) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied in each period; the broader debates in which it was caught up; and the historical causes of its successive transformations. The first section (100-400) shows how Romanisation and Christianisation led to the abandonment of Hellenism as a national label and its restriction to a negative religious sense and a positive, albeit rarefied, cultural one. The second (1000-1300) shows how Hellenism was revived in Byzantium and contributed to the evolution of its culture. The discussion looks closely at the reception of the classical tradition, which was the reason why Hellenism was always desirable and dangerous in Christian society, and presents a new model for understanding Byzantine civilisation.
Other form:	Print version: Kaldellis, Anthony. Hellenism in Byzantium. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007

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