Christian responses to Roman art and architecture
Subtitle: the second-century church amid the spaces of empire
By: Laura Salah Nasrallah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521766524
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-322) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Christian apologists and the second-century built environment; title: Bringing together literature and archaeological remains; title: Framing the question, framing the world; title: What is an apology? : Christian apologies and the so-called Second Sophistic; title: What does it mean to apologize?; title: Addressing the Roman emperors, being Greek; title: Defining the so-called Second Sophistic; title: Traveling to Olympia : material manifestations of Greek Paideia and imperial address; title: The Fountain of Regilla and Herodes Atticus; title: Apologetics and christianness; title: What is the space of the Roman Empire? : mapping, bodies, and knowledge in the Roman world; title: Traveling men : Lucian, Tatian, and Justin; title: Lucian; title: Tatian; title: Justin; title: The Sebasteion in Aphrodisias; title: Into the cities; title: What informs the geographical imagination? : the Acts of the Apostles and Greek cities under Rome; title: Placing Acts; title: The Panhellenion; title: Hadrian, ethnicity, and true religion; title: What has Athens to do with Rome?; title: Traveling back to Acts; title: Acts 2; title: Paul in Lystra and Athens : confusing humans and gods; title: Paul in Thessalonikē and Philippi : Roman sedition against Rome?; title: What is justice? what is piety? what is Paideia : Justin, the forum of Trajan in Rome, and a crisis of mimēsis; title: The column of Trajan; title: Justin's apologies; title: Names and deeds : Justin introduces himself, the emperors, and the mock court; title: On the name; title: The name and speech-acts; title: A higher court; title: Mimēsis, images, and daimones; title: Sameness and difference; title: Justice, piety, and Paideia in the Forum of Trajan; title: The forum's surroundings; title: Moving through the forum of Trajan; title: War and the "temple of peace"; title: Human bodies and the image(s) of god(s); title: How do you know God? : Athenagoras on names and images; title: "This golden one, this Herakles, this God" : Commodus and Herakles; title: The ambivalence of Herakles; title: Commodus as Herakles; title: A proliferation of signs; title: Athenagoras; title: Athenagoras's argument : the proemium; title: Grammar and theology; title: Atheism and piety "in the presence of philosopher-kings"; title: The material gods; title: What do we learn when we look? (part I) images, desire, and Tatian's to the Greeks; title: What an image does; title: The origins of images; title: What you see and what you get : theorizing vision; title: Images and the theological imagination : Cicero, Dio, and Maximus of Tyre; title: Tatian, spectacle, and connoisseurship; title: Tatian at the theater; title: Tatian's grand tour; title: What do we learn when we look? (part II) Aphrodite and Clement of Alexandria; title: The Knidian Aphrodite and her afterlife; title: Aphrodite at Knidos; title: Pseudo-Lucian and the Knidia; title: The Knidia and the ancient gaze; title: The Knidia and Roman portraits; title: Clement of Alexandria; title: Alexandria, the mad, hybrid, spectacular city; title: Introducing clement's Exhortation; title: "They say a girl loved an image" : The exhortation on statues, piety, and desire; title: Clement on the Knidian Aphrodite; title: Stories of the gods : the pornographic Venus and Mars.