From Stones to Myth: Temple Destruction and Civic Identity in the Late Antique Roman East

From Stones to Myth: Temple Destruction and Civic Identity in the Late Antique Roman EastJournal of Late AntiquitySyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/DA8F35A6/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AudeBusineFrom Stones to Myth: Temple Destruction and Civic Identity in the Late Antique Roman Easthttp://syriaca.org/cbss/DA8F35A6https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/DA8F35A6https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/DA8F35A6Journal of Late Antiquity6:22013325-346This paper aims to assess narratives of temple destruction by raising the issue of their etiology. It reexamines the famous destructions of the temple of Zeus Belos at Apamea (trad. circa 386) and that of Zeus Marnas at Gaza (trad. circa 402), both of which, though well-known, have been neglected in recent interpretative studies on holy violence. Both accounts are first analysed through the study of the different contexts in which they were written as well as in terms of the development of episcopal hagiography. This in turn leads to questioning the ways in which such stories were actually elaborated in practice. Through an analysis of various similar discourses on ancient stones, this study sheds new light on an issue which exceeds the phenomenon of temple destruction as such, and relates it to the construction of Late Antique civic identities. Busine, Aude. “From Stones to Myth: Temple Destruction and Civic Identity in the Late Antique Roman East.” Journal of Late Antiquity 6:2 (2013): 325–46. Aude Busine, From Stones to Myth: Temple Destruction and Civic Identity in the Late Antique Roman East, Journal of Late Antiquity 6:2 (2013): 325–46.ApameaByzantine SyriaIV CEIV-VII CETheodoret of Cyrusbishopsclergypaganismviolence