Beholding the City and the Church: The Early Byzantine Ekphraseis and Correspoding Archaeological Evidence
Abstract
Visual description of cities is achieved either by viewing the city from a distance, in accordance with the Hellenistic organization of urban space, or by focusing on specific parts of the city, in accordance with the depiction of the city in Roman painting. Descriptions of the city with the vividness of personal visual observations decrease in the texts of the sixth century and are replaced by descriptions of churches in the urban space. Such descriptions emphasize the supremacy of church architecture and the building of churches on elevated sites in the urban topography, which is in accord with the archaeological evidence.
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SARANTI, H. (2011). Beholding the City and the Church: The Early Byzantine Ekphraseis and Correspoding Archaeological Evidence. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 24, 31–36. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.364
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