![]() ![]() To conclude, we try to correct a garbled sentence of John the Lydian's De magistratibus (III, 70, 4) pertaining to the Senate House of the Augousteion. An obscure fragment of John the Lydian's De mensibus (IV, 138 Wünsch) about the Augousteion proves actually a mixture of authentic elements pertaining to Augustean Rome, and Byzantine traditions about Helena's column. Another column with a silver statue of Theodosius I, which stood in the vicinity, was dismantled by Justinian who reused this column in front of his new Palace at the Hebdomon. It is argued that Eudoxia's column and statue actually stood on the very Porphyry Tribune of the Theodosian Notitia. The silver statue of empress Eudoxia inaugurated in 403 was erected, according to Church historians, "on an elevated tribune", a place where, according to the statue's dedicatory epigram, "the emperors tell the law to the city". on, several imperial statues erected on porphyry columns adorned this square, beginning with the monument dedicated by Constantine to his mother Helena. attest, at least since the reign of Julian, to the existence of this tribune, close to the Palace and the Senate House located on the square of Augousteion. 425 as "a tribune built with porphyry steps". The antiquarian authors tried to replace Rome partially as the framework for historical meaning by focusing on their own home region, by their own administrative department and by a focus on their personal life.Ī littleknown monument of Constantinople's regio secunda is described by the Notitia urbis of ca. The shared antiquarian lore was used by these educated bureaucrats differently in order to take different stands in this contemporary debate. Antiquarianism was part and parcel of the shared repertoire of this network for debating each other and the imperial government implicitly on the role of Rome and Constantinople. This transfer was discussed in sixth-century Constantinople by an extended network of educated bureaucrats, which partly transcended the political, social and linguistic barriers of the period. During the sixth century, antiquarianism was a textual attitude towards the distant past which was marshalled for debating and coming to terms with several uneasy societal changes, such as the transfer of power and prestige from Rome to Constantinople. Once subjected to a reasoned re-definition, the concept of antiquarianism appeared as a useful tool for the study of the attitude towards the distant past in late antiquity. The subject of this dissertation was the assessment of the cultural meaning of antiquarianism in the sixth century AD.
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