Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of . Kaldellis Hardcover<|

Hellenism in ByzantiumThe Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition\nAuthor(s): Anthony Kaldellis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521876889, 978-0521876889\nSynopsis\nThis text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied in each period; the broader debates in which it was caught up; and the historical causes of its successive transformations. The first section [tel] shows how Romanisation and Christianisation led to the abandonment of Hellenism as a national label and its restriction to a negative religious sense and a positive, albeit rarefied, cultural one. The second [tel] shows how Hellenism was revived in Byzant.