New Perspectives on Late Antiquity.

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Perhaps it is fully justified to think of Late Antiquity (3rd-7th centuries) as a first Renaissance of the classical world. This period can be considered a fundamental landmark for the transmission of Classical legacy and the transition between the ancien.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; KEY NOTE PAPER; PART I; OVERVIEW PAPERS; THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE EMPEROR IN THE IVTH CENTURY; PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY DURING THE 4TH CENTURY; THE SECLUSION OF THE ORATOR AND THE DECLINE OF HELLENISTIC PAIDEIA IN THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE; ORIENTAL TRADE IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA DURING LATE ANTIQUITY (4TH-7TH CENTURIES AD); CASE STUDIES; NEW FINDINGS OF LATE ANTIQUITY IN A TOWN OF THE VASCONES AREA (LOS BAÑALES DE UNCASTILLO, ZARAGOZA, SPAIN); ANTI-GERMANISM IN CONSTANTINOPLE OR THE REVOLT OF GAINAS?

THE POSSIBILITIES FOR FINANCIAL GAIN IN LUSITANIA DURING LATE ANTIQUITYCOINS AND POWER IN ROME; SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS AND THE FOURTH PUNIC WAR; FROM VILLAE TO VILLULAE; NEW LINES OF ENQUIRY IN THE STUDY OF THE LATE ANTIQUITY OF BAETICA; NEW LINES OF ENQUIRY IN THE STUDY OF THE LATE ANTIQUITY OF BAETICA (II); LATE ROMAN METALLURGY IN CASTRO OF EL CASTILLÓN (SANTA EULALIA DE TÁBARA, ZAMORA); PART II; OVERVIEW PAPERS; HOW ORIGINAL WAS NEOPLATONISM IN THE PLATONIC TRADITION?; ON THE ONE AND THE DIVERSE; JOHN OF GAZA AND THE GREEK EKPHRASTIC POETRY; THE ONE AND THE MANY AND THE CIRCULAR MOTION.

RHETORIC, SATIRE AND ENCYCLOPAEDIA IN MARTIANUS CAPELLACASE STUDIES; PLOTINUS' NOUS AND THE TIMAEUS' DEMIOURGOS; DIONISYSM IN LATE ANTIQUITY; CHRISTIAN ASSIMILATION OF "PAGAN" ELEMENTS; NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR THE LATERCULUS OF POLEMIUS SILVIUS; TOWARDS A NEW CRITICAL EDITION OF EMPORIUS' WORK (RHLM561-574 HALM); LATE-ANTIQUE AND THE GREEK FATHERS; AESOPIAN TRADITION AND RABBINIC LITERATURE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-516).

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