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LEADER: 03803nam a22002658a 4500
001 2009025688
003 DLC
005 20090625233247.0
008 090623s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780521766524 (hardback)
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050 00 $aBR163$b.N37 2010
082 00 $a261.5/70937$222
100 1 $aNasrallah, Laura Salah,$d1969-
245 10 $aChristian responses to Roman art and architecture :$bthe second-century church amid the spaces of empire /$cLaura Salah Nasrallah.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
263 $a0912
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Christian apologists and the second-century built environment -- Bringing together literature and archaeological remains -- Framing the question, framing the world -- What is an apology? : Christian apologies and the so-called Second Sophistic -- What does it mean to apologize? -- Addressing the Roman emperors, being Greek -- Defining the so-called Second Sophistic -- Traveling to Olympia : material manifestations of Greek Paideia and imperial address -- The Fountain of Regilla and Herodes Atticus -- Apologetics and christianness -- What is the space of the Roman Empire? : mapping, bodies, and knowledge in the Roman world -- Traveling men : Lucian, Tatian, and Justin -- Lucian -- Tatian -- Justin -- The Sebasteion in Aphrodisias -- Into the cities -- What informs the geographical imagination? : the Acts of the Apostles and Greek cities under Rome -- Placing Acts -- The Panhellenion -- Hadrian, ethnicity, and true religion -- What has Athens to do with Rome? -- Traveling back to Acts -- Acts 2 -- Paul in Lystra and Athens : confusing humans and gods -- Paul in Thessalonike and Philippi : Roman sedition -- What is justice? : what is piety; what is Paideia; Justin, the forum of Trajan in Rome, and a crisis of mimesis -- The column of Trajan -- Justin's apologies -- Names and deeds : Justin introduces himself, the emperors, and the mock court -- On the name -- The name and speech acts -- A higher court -- Mimesis, images, and daimones -- Sameness and difference -- Justice, piety, and Paideia in the Forum of Trajan -- Moving through the fora -- Moving through the Forum ofTrajan -- War and the "temple of peace" -- Human bodies and the mage(s) of god(s) -- How do you know God? : Athenagoras on names and images -- "This golden one, this Herakles, this God" : Commodus and Herakles -- The ambivalence of Herakles -- Commodus as Herakles -- A proliferation of signs -- Athenagoras -- Athenagoras's argument : the proemium -- Grammar and theology -- Atheism and piety "in the presence of philosopher-kings" -- The material gods -- What do we learn when we look? (part i) images, desire, and Tatian's to the Greeks -- What an image does -- The origins of images -- What you see and what you get : theorizing vision -- Images and the theological imagination : Cicero, Dio, and Maximus of Tyre -- Tatian, spectacle, and connoisseurship -- Tatian at the theater -- Tatian's European tour -- What do we learn when we look? (part ii) Aphrodite and Clement of Alexandria -- The Knidian Aphrodite and her afterlife -- Aphrodite at Knidos -- Pseudo-Lucian and the Knidia -- The Knidia and the ancient gaze -- The Knidia and Roman portraits -- Alexandria, the mad, hybrid, spectacular city -- Introducing clement's exhortation -- "They say a girl loved an image" : Clement on statues, piety, and desire -- Clement on the Knidian Aphrodite -- Stories of the gods : the pornographic Venus and Mars.
650 0 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
650 0 $aArt, Roman.
650 0 $aArchitecture, Roman.