Alaric in Athens
Abstract
The re-examination of the written sources and of the aftermath of the damages to the Parthenon confirms Alison Frantz’s view that the ancient fire was instigated by the fanatical newly baptized Christian Visigoths led by Alaric, who suppressed the ancient religion by destroying its sanctuaries through methods known in the East. The systematic chiseling away of the metopes of the temple and the destruction of statues seems to have been concurrent with the fire.
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BOURAS, C. (2014). Alaric in Athens. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 33, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.1230
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