The Christian Parthenon
Subtitle: classicism and pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens
By: Anthony Kadelis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521882286
Subjects: Parthenon (Athens, Greece) -- History; Parthenon (Athens, Greece) -- Influence; Classicism -- Greece -- Athens -- History; Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Greece -- Athens -- History; Christianity -- Byzantine Empire; Athens (Greece) -- History; Athens (Greece) -- Religious life and customs; Athens (Greece) -- Church history; Greece -- History -- 323-1453; Byzantine Empire -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Byzantine Athens : a city with no history?; title: Conversions of the Parthenon; title: From students to pilgrims in medieval Athens (532-848 AD); title: Imperial recognition : Basileios II in Athens (1018 AD); title: Pilgrims of the middle period (900-1100 AD); title: The apogee of the Atheniotissa in the twelfth century; title: Michael Choniates : a classicist-bishop and his cathedral (1182-1205 AD); title: Why the Parthenon? An attempt at interpretation; title: The light of the Christian Parthenon.