Preface
Contributors
Figures
Part I. Introduction: Rome and Constantinople in context
1. Introduction: from Rome to Constantinople, Lucy Grig and Gavin
Kelly
2. Competing Capitals, Competing Representations: Late Antique
Cityscapes in Words and Pictures, Lucy Grig
3. The Rise of Constantinople: Old and New Rome Compared, Bryan
Ward-Perkins
Part II. Urban Space and Urban Development in Comparative
Perspective
4. The Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae, John Matthews
5. "It would be abominable for the inhabitants of this Beautiful
City to be compelled to purchase water." Water and Late Antique
Constantinople, James Crow
6. Aristocratic Houses and the Making of Late Antique Rome and
Constantinople, Carlos Machado
Part III. Emperors in the City
7. Valentinian III and the City of Rome (425-455): Patronage,
Politics, Power, Mark Humphries
8. Playing the Ritual Game in Constantinople (379-457), Peter Van
Nuffelen
Part IV. Panegyric
9. Bright lights, Big City: Pacatus and the Panegyrici Latini,
Roger Rees
10. A Tale of Two Cities: Themistius on Rome and Constantinople,
John Vanderspoel
11. Claudian and Constantinople, Gavin Kelly
12. Epic Panegyric and Political Communication in the Fifth-Century
West, Andrew Gillett
Part V. Christian Capitals?
13. There But Not There: Constantinople in the Itinerarium
Burdigalense, Benet Salway
14. Virgilizing Christianity in Late Antique Rome, John Curran
15. "Two Romes, Beacons of the Whole World": Canonizing
Constantinople, Neil McLynn
16. Between Petrine Ideology and Realpolitik: The See of
Constantinople in Roman Geo-Ecclesiology after the End of the
Acacian Schism (518-523), Philippe Blaudeau
Part VI. Epilogue
17. From Rome to New Rome, from Empire to Nation State: Reopening
the Question of Byzantium's Roman Identity, Anthony Kaldellis
Bibliography
Index
Index Locorum
Lucy Grig is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Edinburgh University
and author of Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity.
Gavin Kelly is Reader in Classics at Edinburgh University and
author of Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian.
"Two Romes is an important book, and the chapters are uniformly
excellent discussions of their particular topics from the later
Roman empire."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"A thoughtful, valuable, and useful introduction to a new field of
study. Highly recommended."--CHOICE
"This is an important and welcome volume. Lucy Grig and Gavin Kelly
are to be congratulated for commissioning such a lively and
challenging collection of papers on Rome and Constantinople, the
two great metropoleis of late antiquity. Their comparative approach
and forceful arguments bring a new and fresh perspective to the
culture, ceremonial and physical development of the two cities, as
well as new interpretations of some central sources." --Averil
Cameron,
University of Oxford
"New, and at times surprisingly provocative, perspectives on the
old Rome and its Greek successor, with several contributions
destined for classic status." --Michael Kulikowski, Penn State
"Together, these seventeen well-edited entries hence offer
promising new approaches to both familiar and less often viewed
material and reveal some of the rich insights that can be gained
from looking afresh at the two capitals.... Two Romes, then, is a
truly enjoyable, informative and inspiring read. It is highly
recommended not only to historians of late-antique Rome and
Constantinople, but to anyone interested in the history, culture
and religion of
Late Antiquity."--Muriel Moser, H-Soz-u-Kult
"A thoughtful, valuable, and useful introduction to a new field of
study. Highly recommended."--CHOICE
"On the whole this volume represents a significant contribution for
the understanding of the role of the two most important cities of
the Empire, especially during the fourth and fifth centuries. This
valuable and specialized collection is also fluidly written and
edited, making it a pleasure to read."--Massimiliano Vitiello,
Sehepunkte
"...a phenomenal book. It could have been another boring and dry
treatise of Rome in antiquity but rather all of the essays that
were included are extremely well and intriguingly written. This
book is fluidly written and edited, which made it a very enjoyable
read." -- Ancient History Encyclopedia
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