Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition

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Author: Anthony Kaldellis
ISBN: 9780521876889

by Anthony Kaldellis

ISBN13: 9780521876889
ISBN10: 0521876885
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2008-02-25
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Greeks, Romans, and Christians in Late Antiquity	p. 11
"We too are Greeks!": the legacies of Hellenism	p. 13
Classical Greece	p. 14
The Hellenistic world	p. 21
The Second Sophistic	p. 30
"The world a city": Romans of the East	p. 42
Becoming Roman	p. 45
The translation of Romania	p. 61
Byzantium as a nation-state	p. 74
The myth of the "multi-ethnic empire"	p. 82
The fictions of ecumenical ideology	p. 100
Where did all the Greeks go?	p. 111
"Nibbling on Greek learning": the Christian predicament	p. 120
Between Greeks and Barbarians, within Hellenism	p. 121
The challenge of Hellenism	p. 131
The legacy of Julian	p. 143
Ours or theirs? The uneasy patristic settlement	p. 154
Conclusion: the end of ancient Hellenism	p. 166
Interlude: Hellenism in limbo: the middle years (400-1040)	p. 173
Hellenic Revivals in Byzantium	p. 189
Michael Psellos and the instauration of philosophy	p. 191
"Unblocking the streams of philosophy"	p. 193
Science and dissimulation	p. 202
Between body and soul: a new humanism	p. 209
Hellenes in the eleventh century?	p. 219
The Third Sophistic: the performance of Hellenism under the Komnenoi	p. 225
Anathema upon philosophy	p. 225
Emperors and sophists	p. 233
Hellenism as an expansion of moral and aesthetic categories	p. 241
Hellenic fantasy worlds: the new Romance novels	p. 256
A philosopher's novel: Prodromos on religion and war	p. 270
Hellenic afterworlds: the Timarion	p. 276
Toward a new Hellenic identity	p. 283
Anti-Latin Hellenism	p. 295
Ioannes Tzetzes: professional classicism	p. 301
Eustathios of Thessalonike: scholar, bishop, humanist	p. 307
Imperial failure and the emergence of national Hellenism	p. 317
Michael Choniates and the "blessed" Greeks	p. 317
Athens: a Christian city and its classicist bishop	p. 323
East and West: negotiating labels in 1204	p. 334
Moderni Graeci or Romans? Byzantines under Latin occupation	p. 345
Roman nationalism in the successor states	p. 360
Imperial Hellenism: Ioannes III Batatzes and Theodoros II Laskaris	p. 368
The intellectuals of Nikaia	p. 379
General conclusions	p. 389
Bibliography	p. 398
Index	p. 453
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