Sentences with phrase «late classical antiquity»

First, of course, there was the confrontation with the world of Hellenism and late classical antiquity, a confrontation out of which an obscure Jewish sect was transformed into a world religion.

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Nevertheless, it was also the «sole medium of intellectual life» and could become again, incidentally to the process and quite unintentionally, a way of access to the heritage of pre-Christian Roman culture and classical Latin literature (Erich Auerbach, Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages [Pantheon.

Stung by the criticism that he offered an interpretation of Christianity as an interpretation of religion, he moved from The Essence of Christianity to The Essence of Religion and, later, to his Theogony According to the Sources of Classical, Hebraic, and Christian Antiquity (1857).

If friendship was among the «first things» of life in the classical world, its place changed significantly as Christian belief transformed the world of late antiquity.

Konstan's account of friendship — which is historically, philologically, and philosophically informed — begins with Homeric Greece, proceeds through the classical and Hellenistic periods, discusses Roman views, and ends with some of the fourth — century church fathers in the world of late antiquity.

Morton reviews works from Gérôme's entire career - the early «Néo - Grec» paintings with references to classical antiquity, historical scenes, Orientalist genre paintings, and his late focus on sculpture - to make the case for his spectacular art.

Boasting almost 200 objects, many on view in the U.S. for the first time, «Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World» looks at connections between ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, from the Bronze Age to late antiquity.

Later he turned to luxurious scenes of Antiquity, occasionally Egyptian but mainly Classical, and it is for these paintings that he is recognised.