From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium
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This book combines concepts from the history of religions with Byzantine studies in its assessments of kings, symbols, and cities in a diachronic and cross-cultural analysis. The work attests, firstly, that the symbolic art and architecture of ancient cities-commissioned by their monarchs expressing their relationship with their gods-show us that…
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Dr. Mario Baghos, a Professor at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney, Australia, herein addresses the extent to which religion functioned in ancient and medieval cities, and how select cities from the ancient Near East to Christian Rome and Constantinople served as imagines et axes mundi (images and centers of the world).
Professor Baghos deals successively with Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and how pagan rulers built their capital cities and placed the temples of their key deities in strategic locations to emphasize their divine connections. He then deals with Hebrew and Christian theology, and how their beliefs differed…
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