... to the basilicas controversy and the Altar of Victory debate. Adrianople battle of Ammianus Marcellinus historian Ausonius Decimius Magnus tutor to Gratian praetorian prefect cos 379 child emperors emperors Eusebius of Caesarea historian on imperial virtues Goths Gratian Fl western emperor ad 367–383...

... Roman period); LR (Late Roman, imperial Christianity); and the BVT (Byzantine–Venetian–Turkish period, Greek Orthodox Christianity). In Sphakia there are perhaps three GACHER sacred structures; at least twelve LR basilicas; and over one hundred BVT churches. The proportions of sacred structures for each...

... Christianity Judaism amulets Aqaba church Jordan forgery house churches Nag Hammadi codices Oxyrhynchus Logia papyri cathedrals Constantine emperor frescoes Helena St Peter’s Basilica Rome New Testament scenes sarcophagi Hagia Sophia in Constantinople Kalavasos Kopetra Cyprus paganism...

... the Fora of Augustus and Trajan, adorned with deliberately chosen political statuary, or the imperial palaces of Augustus or Domitian. archeia basilicas caldaria euergetism festivals gateways imperial cult keystones labyrinths (R. J. van Pelt and C. W Westfall, Architectural Principles...

... basilicas canons eagles family memorials graffiti harbours immortality letters marble style The preservation of ancient structures like the house of Alexander at Thebes not only reinforced Romans’ sense of the passing of time, but also encouraged them to aspire to make their monuments last as long...

... in literary texts. These written sources are problematic, and cannot be taken as direct accounts of what an ancient person saw. altars basilicas colossal statues ecphrasis intercolumniations libraries oracles paintings rhetorical performances Up to now, this book has been concerned with the attitudes...

... cathedrals Cyprus Placcus bishop St Menas pilgrimage center Egypt Tebessa Khalia emporium Algeria leper baths Life and Miracles of St Thecla monastic communities Phazimonitis baths Pontus Turkey St Martyrios monastery Jerusalem East Church at Apollonia hypocausts St Epiphanius basilica Cyprus...

...Between the mid-4th and mid-5th centuries, the papacy consolidated its ascendancy in Rome; the process of the Christianization of the city depended on the building of great basilicas and pilgrimage centres as well as the construction of a Christian calendar, all of which Leo was to use as the basis...

... Church in the period before the Peace of 313, when Constantine and his co-emperor Licinius ended the persecution of the Christians. He further focuses on the structure, style, and significance of important monuments: the Arch of Constantine and the two great Christian basilicas, St. John's in the Lateran...