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"Late Antiquity was particularly fertile in regard to the development of religion and philosophy; both what was propounded by scholars and what people throughout society thought and believed. The competition and cross-pollination between traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neo-Platonist philosophy, and Christian theology of the Patristic era created a feast for researchers that is both interesting and interdisciplinary. Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle between Christianity and Paganism (for lack of a better term) are reductive and incomplete. Greenwood's research, published between 2013 and 2018 in the fields of history, divinity, and philosophy, demonstrates the complexity of that era and provide a more fully-orbed picture of major actors including the Emperor Julian, Porphyry of Tyre, and Celsus. From the second to the fourth centuries, these were some of the major players in attempting to define the terrain in the conflict between their philosophies and the Christian religion. While the timeframe remains consistently within the late second to the mid-fourth centuries A.D., the evidence ranges between inscriptions, literature, and historical accounts. The particular focus of Greenwood's research is the emperor Julian (Flavius Caludius Julianus, d. 363), a figure of perennial interest, as not only the last pagan emperor, but the last anti-Christian polemicist of real significance in antiquity. This volume builds upon numerous recent articles offering a new perspective on Julian, bringing together research from ancient history, Neoplatonist philosophy, and patristic theology, and will be useful to students and scholars alike from these disciplines"--

This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war, and Italy

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Note on Contributors -- The Materiality of Text: An Introduction /Andrej Petrovic -- Concepts -- What is an ἐπιγραφή in Classical Greece? /Athena Kirk -- The Aesthetics and Politics of Inscriptions in Imperial Greek Literature /Alexei Zadorojnyi -- Contexts -- Epigraphic Spaces -- The 'Spatial Dynamics' of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram: Conversations among Locations, Monuments, Texts, and Viewer-Readers /Joseph W. Day -- Lectional Signs in Greek Verse Inscriptions /Valentina Garulli -- Erasures in Greek Public Documents /P. J. Rhodes -- Literary Spaces: The Materiality of Text in Greek and Roman Literature -- The Authority of Archaic Greek Epigram /Donald E. Lavigne -- Writing, Women's Silent Speech /Michael A. Tueller -- Hard Verses and Soft Books: The Materials of Elegy /S. J. Heyworth -- Architectural Spaces -- The Power of the Absent Text: Dedicatory Inscriptions on Greek Sacred Architecture and Altars /Ioannis Mylonopoulos -- Re-Appraising the Value of Same-Text Relationships; a Study of 'Duplicate' Inscriptions in the Monumental Landscape at Aphrodisias /Abigail Graham -- Layers of Urban Life: A Contextual Analysis of Inscriptions in the Public Space of Pompeii /Fanny Opdenhoff -- Damnatio Memoriae Inscribed: The Materiality of Cultural Repression /Ida Östenberg -- Inscriptions between Text and Texture: Inscribed Monuments in Public Spaces – A Case Study at Late Antique Ostia /Katharina Bolle -- Framing Late Antique Texts as Monuments: The Tabula Ansata between Sculpture and Mosaic /Sean V. Leatherbury.

Material is the substance of the world of things. Literary sources suggest that materiality was part of aesthetic perception, loaded with meaning and bound to function even in antiquity. To date, this complex reading of material has not been adequately represented in archaeological research. The present volume addresses this oversight by examining the decorative use of material in Roman Italy between the Late Republic and Early Imperial period.