The origin and significance of the Early Christian synthronon

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Published: Dec 8, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.21807
Keywords:
Early Christian period synthronon education imperial ideology Byzantine Empire.
Δημήτριος Θ. ΧΑΤΖΗΛΑΖΑΡΟΥ ( Dimitriοs Th. CHATZILAZAROU)
Hellenic Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades
Abstract
The resemblance of the Christian synthronon to the exedrae revealed in a large complex of Auditoria in Alexandria highlights the importance of teaching for the Christian faith. Evidence of the effort of the Christian Church to approach the pagan world through its ideological, iconographic and symbolical vocabulary is traced in the field of Early Christian iconography and imperial ideology. The integration of the exedra into the apse of the Christian Church symbolically transformed the latter in an auditorium of Divine Wisdom.
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