Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity

Cover
Contents
Preface
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Contributors
Part I: Introduction: Rome and Constantinople in Context
	1. Introduction: From Rome to Constantinople
	2. Competing Capitals, Competing Representations: Late Antique Cityscapes in Words and Pictures
	3. Old and New Rome Compared: The Rise of Constantinople
Part II: Urban Space and Urban Development in Comparative Perspective
	4. The Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae
	5. Water and Late Antique Constantinople: “It would be abominable for the inhabitants of this Beautiful City to be compelled to purchase water.”
	6. Aristocratic Houses and the Making of Late Antique Rome and Constantinople
Part III: Emperors in the City
	7. Valentinian III and the City of Rome (425–55): Patronage, Politics, Power
	8. Playing the Ritual Game in Constantinople (379–457)
Part IV: Panegyric
	9. Bright Lights, Big City: Pacatus and the Panegyrici Latini
	10. A Tale of Two Cities: Th emistius on Rome and Constantinople
	11. Claudian and Constantinople
	12. Epic Panegyric and Political Communication in the Fifth-Century West
Part V: Christian Capitals?
	13. There but Not There: Constantinople in the Itinerarium Burdigalense
	14. Virgilizing Christianity in Late Antique Rome
	15. “Two Romes, Beacons of the Whole World”: Canonizing Constantinople
	16. Between Petrine Ideology and Realpolitik: The See of Constantinople in Roman Geo-Ecclesiology (449–536)
Part VI: Epilogue
	17. From Rome to New Rome, from Empire to Nation-State: Reopening the Question of Byzantium’s Roman Identity
Bibliography
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