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Half-title 3 Series-title 4 Title 5 Copyright 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 Preface 11 Introduction 15 PART I Greeks, Romans, and Christians in late antiquity 25 CHAPTER 1 "We too are Greeks!": the legacies of Hellenism 27 Classical Greece 28 The Hellenistic World 35 The Second Sophistic 44 CHAPTER 2 "The world a city": Romans of the East 56 Becoming Roman 59 The Translation of Romania 75 Byzantium as a Nation-State 88 The Myth of the "Multi-Ethnic Empire" 96 The Fictions of Ecumenical Ideology 114 Where did all the Greeks go? 125 CHAPTER 3 "Nibbling on Greek learning": the Christian predicament 134 Between Greeks and Barbarians, Within Hellenism 135 The Challenge of Hellenism 145 The Legacy of Julian 157 Ours or Theirs? The Uneasy Patristic Settlement 168 Conclusion: The End of Ancient Hellenism 180 INTERLUDE Hellenism in limbo: the middle years (400-1040) 187 PART II Hellenic revivals in Byzantium 203 CHAPTER 4 Michael Psellos and the instauration of philosophy 205 “Unblocking the Streams of Philosophy” 207 Science and Dissimulation 216 Between Body and Soul: A New Humanism 223 Hellenes in the Eleventh Century? 233 CHAPTER 5 The Third Sophistic: the performance of Hellenism under the

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Author

ANTHONY KALDELLIS

Published

2007

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Social_sciences