Christian responses to Roman art and architecture : the second-century church amid the spaces of empire / Laura Salah Nasrallah.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nasrallah, Laura Salah, 1969-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Art, Roman.
Architecture, Roman.
Physical Description:xvi, 334 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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.