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Χριστιανική Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία / Christian Archaeological Society

Angeliki Katsioti

Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports

Sophia Kalopissi-Verti

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Melina Paissidou

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Georgios Pallis

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Demetris Athanasoulis

Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports

Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Κυκλάδων - Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades

Nicolas Michail

Université Lumière Lyon 2

Katerina (Aikaterini-Konstantina) Kontopanagou

Hellenic Open University

Varvara Papadopoulou

Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports

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Βιβλιοκρισία: Γιάννης Θεοχάρης, Η Αθήνα μετά το τέλος του αρχαίου κόσμου. Αρχιτεκτονική γλυπτική από τον 8ο έως τον 11ο αι. μ.Χ., Αθήνα 2022

Δελτίον της Χριστιανικής Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 44 (2023/2024), 477-481.

ελενη-αΘηνα αγγελη -ευρυδιΚη ΚατΣαλη -αλεξανδρα ΚωΣταρελλη, Ο ναός του Αγίου Γεωργίου Ακραιφνίου ... more ελενη-αΘηνα αγγελη -ευρυδιΚη ΚατΣαλη -αλεξανδρα ΚωΣταρελλη, Ο ναός του Αγίου Γεωργίου Ακραιφνίου στη Βοιωτία. Συμβολή στη μελέτη της αρχιτεκτονικής του . . . . eleni-AthinA Angeli -evridiKi KAtsAli -AlexAndrA KostArelli, The church of Hagios Georgios in Akraifnio, Boeotia. A contribution to the study of its architecture . . . . ioAnnis perrAKis -stAvros MAMAlouKos -AthAnAsios KouMAntos, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine church architecture at Ainos

The christianization of pagan temples in the greek hagiographical texts

Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity, 2008

REVIEW of C. Breytenbach, E. Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas. From Paul to Justinian I (1st–6th cent. AD), Early Christianity in Greece 1, Leiden/Boston, Brill 2023: Plekos 26 (2024), 155-170

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This book is the first volume of the series "Early Christianity in Greece" (ECG), with editors Ci... more This book is the first volume of the series "Early Christianity in Greece" (ECG), with editors Cilliers Breytenbach (Berlin), Martin Goodman (Oxford), Klaus Hallof (Berlin [Inscriptiones Graecae]), Andreas Müller (Kiel), Joseph Lee Rife (Nashville) and Christiane Zimmermann (Kiel). The ECG is a subseries of the series "Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity" (AJEC), of which the founding editor was Martin Hengel † (Tübingen). It follows the tradition of "Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in der ersten drei Jahrhunderten" and continues the subseries "Early Christianity in Asia Minor" (ECAM). The volumes of the subseries "Early Christianity in Greece" employs literary and archaeological sources to examine the rise and expansion of Christianity in Greece until the reign of Justinian I, while at the same time presenting the advances in research. In recent decades the expanding study of Roman and late antique Athens has allowed us to understand in new ways the development of Christianity in the city that was considered the cultural center of the ancient world. Although there are many works on late paganism and early Christianity in Athens, none, however, puts their practice and development side by side in any coherent way and none includes so many different sources in illuminating such a complicated period. Cilliers Breytenbach and Elli Tzavella describe Christianity in Athens in opposition to and in interaction with pagan religion and the city's philosophical schools. The authors are interested in religious and sociological issues and demonstrate an impressive grasp of a variety of complex issues. This book is an ambitious and successful attempt to combine fields of research, clearly distinct from each other, albeit complementary, literary, archaeological and epigraphical, covering the period from the first century A. D. to the end of the reign of Justinian I, in 565 A. D. ("Preface", pp. XIII-XIV). The book offers an excellent overview of the topic over a lengthy period. The authors outline the intellectual (that is, philosophical) and religious ideologies prevalent during this period of transition and study thoroughly the archaeological and epigraphic evidence. The complexity of themes discussed

THE BYZANTINE CITY IN THE LITERARY SOURCES

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE BYZANTINE CITY, FROM JUSTINIAN TO MEHMET II (ca. 500-ca.1500), EDS. N. BAKIRTZIS, L. ZAVAGNO, LONDON-NEW YORK 2024, pp. 56-72.

THE BYZANTINE CITY IN THE SIXTH CENTURY. LITERARY IMAGES AND HISTORICAL REALITY, ATHENS 2006

Byzantium and the Origin of the Modern Greek National Consciousness, Toronto 1992.

Le notariat byzantin du IXe au XVe siècles, Université Nationale d’Athènes, Faculté de Lettres, Bibliothèque “Sophie N. Saripolou” no. 86, Athens 1991, pp. 312.

Byzantine Athens, Proceedings of a Conference, October 21-23, 2016, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, ed. H. Saradi, Athens 2022

Constantine, Constantinople and the Trojan Legends: Byzantine Reactions to the Decline of Rome

Proceedings of International Conference: Constantine the Great and his Age. 1700th Anniversary of the Edict of Milan, Thessaloniki 4-6 December 2013, eds. C. P. Christou, P. Katsoni, C. A. Bozinis, University of Thessaloniki, Centre for Byzantine Research, 2022, 461-477

The context of the creation of a new city by Constantine the Great was his victory over his co-em... more The context of the creation of a new city by Constantine the Great was his victory over his co-emperor and rival Licinius on September 18, 324 at Chry sopolis. This was a harbor on the east coast of the Bosporus and a major strategic point, for it was one of the principle places to cross the strait from the Asian coast to Constantinople. The outcome of the battle at Chrysopolis was of major historical significance because Constantine became then the sole emperor of the Roman Empire. According to the Ano nymus Valesianus it was his victory over Licinius that Constantine wanted to commemorate with the foundation of a new city, 1 which was a royal and imperial attribute for centuries. Consequently the new city would be founded in the geographical area where Constantine won the battle that made him sole emperor. However, other sources explain differ rent ly Constantine's decision to build a new capital in the East. Pagan Zo simus, whose account is hostile to the first Christian emperor, explains Con stantine's decision by the hostility of Rome's citizens. 2 The tradition that was soon formed about Constantine's choices for his new city was broad ened: Constantine considered Sardica (modern Sofia), Ilion (Troy), Chalcedon and perhaps Thessalonika. 3 One hundred years later, the Church historian Sozomen narrates the circumstances of Constantinople's foundation in his Ecclesiastical History, written in 439-450. It is important to stress that he dedicated his work to Ο Μέγας Κωνσταντίνος και η εποχή του 461-477

Η οικουμενικότης του Βυζαντίου

Ώρες Βυζαντίου. Έργα και Ημέρες στο Βυζάντιο. Αθήνα – Θεσσαλονίκη – Μυστράς. Το Βυζάντιο ως Οικουμένη, Βυζαντινό και Χριστιανικό Μουσείο, Οκτώβριος 2001-Ιανουάριος 2002, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2001, 21-33

Η οικονομία (4ος-15ος αιώνες)

Βυζάντιο: Ιστορία και Πολιτισμός. Ερευνητικά πορίσματα, eds. Τ. Louggis – E. Kislinger, vol. 2, Athens 2015, 15-43

Byzantine Urban Imagination: Idealisation and political thinking (eighth to fifteenth centuries)

Cities as Palimpsests? Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism, eds. E. Key Fowden – S. Çağaptay – E. Zychowicz-Coghill – L. Blanke, Impact of the Ancient City, vol. I, Oxbow, Oxford & Philadelphia 2022, 265-286

On the “Archontike” and “Ekklesiastike Dynasteia” and “Prostasia” in Byzantium with Particular Attention to the Legal Sources: A Study in Social History of Byzantium

Byzantion 64, 1994, 69-117, 314-351.

Τα «Μνημεία του Γένους» στην ιστοριογραφία του Προκόπιου: Μια λογοτεχνική τεχνική και το ιστορικό παρελθόν

Byzantina 21, 2000, 313-329.

ASPECTS OF THE CLASSICAl TRADITION IN BYZANTIUM

Toronto, 1995

The Heritage of Rome and the Rise of the Byzantine Empire

Crossroads: Travelling through the Middle Ages, AD 300-1000, eds. W. Hupperetz, L. Mulvin, M. Schmauder, Exhibition Catalogue, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, LVR-Landes Museum, Bonn, 15/9/2017-11/2/2018, Uitgeverij WBooks, 119-125.

The Neighbors’ Pre-Emption Right. Notes on the Byzantine Documents of Transactions

DIPTYCHA (Athens) 6, 1994, 267-288., 1994

BYZANTIUM: THE LONG-LASTING EMPIRE OF ROME IN THE GREEK CHRISTIAN EAST [in Russian]

Crossroads: Travelling through the Middle Ages, AD 300-1000, eds. W. Hupperetz, L. Mulvin, M. Schmauder, Exhibition Catalogue, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, LVR-Landes Museum, Bonn, 15/9/2017-11/2/2018, Uitgeverij WBooks, 2018, 119-125, 2018

ZOSIMOS: REFLECTIONS ON THE DECLINE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Βyzantine Authors and their Times, ed. V.N. Vlussidou, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, Section of Byzantine Research, Research Series 8, Athens, 2021, 17-37, 2021

THE CONVERSION OF PAGAN TEMPLES INTO CHURCHES IN THE LATE ANTIQUE EAST

ΤHE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARCHITECTURE OF CHRISTIANITY, vol. I: Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, general editor R. A. Etlin, associate editors A. M. Yasin, S. Murray, Cambridge Univ. Press, 33-39, 2023

Βιβλιοκρισία: Γιάννης Θεοχάρης, Η Αθήνα μετά το τέλος του αρχαίου κόσμου. Αρχιτεκτονική γλυπτική από τον 8ο έως τον 11ο αι. μ.Χ., Αθήνα 2022

Δελτίον της Χριστιανικής Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 44 (2023/2024), 477-481.

ελενη-αΘηνα αγγελη -ευρυδιΚη ΚατΣαλη -αλεξανδρα ΚωΣταρελλη, Ο ναός του Αγίου Γεωργίου Ακραιφνίου ... more ελενη-αΘηνα αγγελη -ευρυδιΚη ΚατΣαλη -αλεξανδρα ΚωΣταρελλη, Ο ναός του Αγίου Γεωργίου Ακραιφνίου στη Βοιωτία. Συμβολή στη μελέτη της αρχιτεκτονικής του . . . . eleni-AthinA Angeli -evridiKi KAtsAli -AlexAndrA KostArelli, The church of Hagios Georgios in Akraifnio, Boeotia. A contribution to the study of its architecture . . . . ioAnnis perrAKis -stAvros MAMAlouKos -AthAnAsios KouMAntos, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine church architecture at Ainos

The christianization of pagan temples in the greek hagiographical texts

Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity, 2008

REVIEW of C. Breytenbach, E. Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas. From Paul to Justinian I (1st–6th cent. AD), Early Christianity in Greece 1, Leiden/Boston, Brill 2023: Plekos 26 (2024), 155-170

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This book is the first volume of the series "Early Christianity in Greece" (ECG), with editors Ci... more This book is the first volume of the series "Early Christianity in Greece" (ECG), with editors Cilliers Breytenbach (Berlin), Martin Goodman (Oxford), Klaus Hallof (Berlin [Inscriptiones Graecae]), Andreas Müller (Kiel), Joseph Lee Rife (Nashville) and Christiane Zimmermann (Kiel). The ECG is a subseries of the series "Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity" (AJEC), of which the founding editor was Martin Hengel † (Tübingen). It follows the tradition of "Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in der ersten drei Jahrhunderten" and continues the subseries "Early Christianity in Asia Minor" (ECAM). The volumes of the subseries "Early Christianity in Greece" employs literary and archaeological sources to examine the rise and expansion of Christianity in Greece until the reign of Justinian I, while at the same time presenting the advances in research. In recent decades the expanding study of Roman and late antique Athens has allowed us to understand in new ways the development of Christianity in the city that was considered the cultural center of the ancient world. Although there are many works on late paganism and early Christianity in Athens, none, however, puts their practice and development side by side in any coherent way and none includes so many different sources in illuminating such a complicated period. Cilliers Breytenbach and Elli Tzavella describe Christianity in Athens in opposition to and in interaction with pagan religion and the city's philosophical schools. The authors are interested in religious and sociological issues and demonstrate an impressive grasp of a variety of complex issues. This book is an ambitious and successful attempt to combine fields of research, clearly distinct from each other, albeit complementary, literary, archaeological and epigraphical, covering the period from the first century A. D. to the end of the reign of Justinian I, in 565 A. D. ("Preface", pp. XIII-XIV). The book offers an excellent overview of the topic over a lengthy period. The authors outline the intellectual (that is, philosophical) and religious ideologies prevalent during this period of transition and study thoroughly the archaeological and epigraphic evidence. The complexity of themes discussed

THE BYZANTINE CITY IN THE LITERARY SOURCES

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE BYZANTINE CITY, FROM JUSTINIAN TO MEHMET II (ca. 500-ca.1500), EDS. N. BAKIRTZIS, L. ZAVAGNO, LONDON-NEW YORK 2024, pp. 56-72.

THE BYZANTINE CITY IN THE SIXTH CENTURY. LITERARY IMAGES AND HISTORICAL REALITY, ATHENS 2006

Byzantium and the Origin of the Modern Greek National Consciousness, Toronto 1992.

Le notariat byzantin du IXe au XVe siècles, Université Nationale d’Athènes, Faculté de Lettres, Bibliothèque “Sophie N. Saripolou” no. 86, Athens 1991, pp. 312.

Byzantine Athens, Proceedings of a Conference, October 21-23, 2016, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, ed. H. Saradi, Athens 2022

Constantine, Constantinople and the Trojan Legends: Byzantine Reactions to the Decline of Rome

Proceedings of International Conference: Constantine the Great and his Age. 1700th Anniversary of the Edict of Milan, Thessaloniki 4-6 December 2013, eds. C. P. Christou, P. Katsoni, C. A. Bozinis, University of Thessaloniki, Centre for Byzantine Research, 2022, 461-477

The context of the creation of a new city by Constantine the Great was his victory over his co-em... more The context of the creation of a new city by Constantine the Great was his victory over his co-emperor and rival Licinius on September 18, 324 at Chry sopolis. This was a harbor on the east coast of the Bosporus and a major strategic point, for it was one of the principle places to cross the strait from the Asian coast to Constantinople. The outcome of the battle at Chrysopolis was of major historical significance because Constantine became then the sole emperor of the Roman Empire. According to the Ano nymus Valesianus it was his victory over Licinius that Constantine wanted to commemorate with the foundation of a new city, 1 which was a royal and imperial attribute for centuries. Consequently the new city would be founded in the geographical area where Constantine won the battle that made him sole emperor. However, other sources explain differ rent ly Constantine's decision to build a new capital in the East. Pagan Zo simus, whose account is hostile to the first Christian emperor, explains Con stantine's decision by the hostility of Rome's citizens. 2 The tradition that was soon formed about Constantine's choices for his new city was broad ened: Constantine considered Sardica (modern Sofia), Ilion (Troy), Chalcedon and perhaps Thessalonika. 3 One hundred years later, the Church historian Sozomen narrates the circumstances of Constantinople's foundation in his Ecclesiastical History, written in 439-450. It is important to stress that he dedicated his work to Ο Μέγας Κωνσταντίνος και η εποχή του 461-477

Η οικουμενικότης του Βυζαντίου

Ώρες Βυζαντίου. Έργα και Ημέρες στο Βυζάντιο. Αθήνα – Θεσσαλονίκη – Μυστράς. Το Βυζάντιο ως Οικουμένη, Βυζαντινό και Χριστιανικό Μουσείο, Οκτώβριος 2001-Ιανουάριος 2002, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2001, 21-33

Η οικονομία (4ος-15ος αιώνες)

Βυζάντιο: Ιστορία και Πολιτισμός. Ερευνητικά πορίσματα, eds. Τ. Louggis – E. Kislinger, vol. 2, Athens 2015, 15-43

Byzantine Urban Imagination: Idealisation and political thinking (eighth to fifteenth centuries)

Cities as Palimpsests? Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism, eds. E. Key Fowden – S. Çağaptay – E. Zychowicz-Coghill – L. Blanke, Impact of the Ancient City, vol. I, Oxbow, Oxford & Philadelphia 2022, 265-286

On the “Archontike” and “Ekklesiastike Dynasteia” and “Prostasia” in Byzantium with Particular Attention to the Legal Sources: A Study in Social History of Byzantium

Byzantion 64, 1994, 69-117, 314-351.

Τα «Μνημεία του Γένους» στην ιστοριογραφία του Προκόπιου: Μια λογοτεχνική τεχνική και το ιστορικό παρελθόν

Byzantina 21, 2000, 313-329.

ASPECTS OF THE CLASSICAl TRADITION IN BYZANTIUM

Toronto, 1995

The Heritage of Rome and the Rise of the Byzantine Empire

Crossroads: Travelling through the Middle Ages, AD 300-1000, eds. W. Hupperetz, L. Mulvin, M. Schmauder, Exhibition Catalogue, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, LVR-Landes Museum, Bonn, 15/9/2017-11/2/2018, Uitgeverij WBooks, 119-125.

The Neighbors’ Pre-Emption Right. Notes on the Byzantine Documents of Transactions

DIPTYCHA (Athens) 6, 1994, 267-288., 1994

BYZANTIUM: THE LONG-LASTING EMPIRE OF ROME IN THE GREEK CHRISTIAN EAST [in Russian]

Crossroads: Travelling through the Middle Ages, AD 300-1000, eds. W. Hupperetz, L. Mulvin, M. Schmauder, Exhibition Catalogue, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, LVR-Landes Museum, Bonn, 15/9/2017-11/2/2018, Uitgeverij WBooks, 2018, 119-125, 2018

ZOSIMOS: REFLECTIONS ON THE DECLINE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Βyzantine Authors and their Times, ed. V.N. Vlussidou, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, Section of Byzantine Research, Research Series 8, Athens, 2021, 17-37, 2021

THE CONVERSION OF PAGAN TEMPLES INTO CHURCHES IN THE LATE ANTIQUE EAST

ΤHE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARCHITECTURE OF CHRISTIANITY, vol. I: Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, general editor R. A. Etlin, associate editors A. M. Yasin, S. Murray, Cambridge Univ. Press, 33-39, 2023

Notai e documenti greci dall’età di Giustiniano al XIX secolo. Tomo I. Il sistema notarile bizantino (VI-XV secolo), Per una Storia del Notariato nella Civiltà Europea, IV, Consiglio Nazionale del Notariato, A. Giuffrè: Milan, 1999, pp. 325.

La traduzione, I' adattarnento totale o parziale, la riproduzione con qualsiasi mezzo (compresi i... more

ΟΨΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ ΧΡΟΝΟΥ. ΠΡΑΚΤΙΚΑ ΔΙΕΘΝΟΥΣ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟΥ. 29-30 ΜΑΪΟΥ 2015, ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΟ & ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΙΚΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ, eds. H. Saradi et al., Athens 2018.

Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου και Βυζαντινό και Χριστιανικό Μουσείο, 2018

ΠΡΑΚΤΙΚΑ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟΥ. ΔΥΜΗ ΦΡΑΓΚΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ -ΒΕΝΕΤΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ -Α΄ ΤΟΥΡΚΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ, 1-2 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ 2005

Δήμος Δύμης σε συνεργασία με την 6η Εφορεία Βυζαντινών Αρχαιοτήτων Πάτρας και την Ιστορική και Εθνολογική Εταιρεία της Πελοποννήσου, ed. H. Saradi, Patra, 2010

Ο ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΣ ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΤΕΧΝΗ, ΠΑΤΡΑ, 17-19 ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ 2006

ΠΡΑΚΤΙΚΑ ΔΙΕΘΝΟΥΣ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟΥ, 2013

Athenian Lamp Production in Late Antique Athens, in Late Antique Athens Seminar Series 2021-22

by Arja Karivieri, isabella Baldini, Claudia Lamanna, Guy Sanders, Elli Tzavella, Helen Saradi, and Yiannis Theocharis

Late Antique Athens Seminar Series 2021-22

Late Antique Athens - Seminars, 8 October 2021 - 28 January 2022, organised by Isabella Baldini ... more