Michael Choniates at the Christian Parthenon and the <i>Bendideia</i> Festival of <i>Republic</i> 1

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  • Byron David MacDougall Brown University

Abstract

Choniates’ inaugural sermon as bishop of Athens carefully echoes Plato’s image of the passing on of the torch, so as to emphasize the continuity of Christian Athens with its pagan past.

Author Biography

Byron David MacDougall, Brown University

Classics Department, PhD candidate

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2014-10-14

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