On the Rhetoric of Ruins and Restorations: Conflict over Cult Sites in Late Antiquity

This article discusses competing interpretations of and rhetoric concerning cult sites in late antiquity. It highlights concerns by Christian and Greco-Roman intellectuals over their ruins and restorations, and locates those concerns within larger metanarratives of the past that are utilised to “pro...

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Main Author: Edwards, David R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020
In: Journal of early Christian history
Year: 2020, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 49-67
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
CB Christian life; spirituality
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B cultural memory
B Jewish temple
B Emperor Julian
B John Chrysostom
B cult sites
B Late Antiquity
B temple of Apollo
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