Two Romes

Lucy Grig is Lecturer in Classics at Edinburgh University and author of Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity Gavin Kelly is Lecturer in Classics at Edinburgh University and author of Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian.

• Preface ; Contributors ; Figures ; Part I. Introduction: Rome and Constantinople in context ; 1. Introduction: from Rome to Constantinople, Lucy Grig and Gavin Kelly ; 2. Competing Capitals, Competing Representations: Late Antique Cityscapes in Words and Pictures, Lucy Grig ; 3. The Rise of Constantinople: Old and New Rome Compared, Bryan Ward-Perkins ; Part II. Urban Space and Urban Development in Comparative Perspective ; 4. The Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae, John Matthews ; 5. "It would be abominable for the inhabitants of this Beautiful City to be compelled to purchase water." Water and Late Antique Constantinople, James Crow ; 6. Aristocratic Houses and the Making of Late Antique Rome and Constantinople, Carlos Machado ; Part III. Emperors in the City ; 7. Valentinian III and the City of Rome (425-455): Patronage, Politics, Power, Mark Humphries ; 8. Playing the Ritual Game in Constantinople (379-457), Peter Van Nuffelen ; Part IV. Panegyric ; 9. Bright lights, Big City: Pacatus and the Panegyrici Latini, Roger Rees ; 10. A Tale of Two Cities: Themistius on Rome and Constantinople, John Vanderspoel ; 11. Claudian and Constantinople, Gavin Kelly ; 12. Epic Panegyric and Political Communication in the Fifth-Century West, Andrew Gillett ; Part V. Christian Capitals? ; 13. There But Not There: Constantinople in the Itinerarium Burdigalense, Benet Salway ; 14. Virgilizing Christianity in Late Antique Rome, John Curran ; 15. "Two Romes, Beacons of the Whole World": Canonizing Constantinople, Neil McLynn ; 16. Between Petrine Ideology and Realpolitik: The See of Constantinople in Roman Geo-Ecclesiology after the End of the Acacian Schism (518-523), Philippe Blaudeau ; Part VI. Epilogue ; 17. From Rome to New Rome, from Empire to Nation State: Reopening the Question of Byzantium's Roman Identity, Anthony Kaldellis ; Bibliography ; Index ; Index Locorum

In this collection of seventeen essays, written by some of the most eminent figures in the field, the cities of Rome and New Rome - as Constantinople was often called - get a thorough going-over ... The results revolutionize how we should understand Rome and Constantinople, as well as the relationship between them.