Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Narratives of temple destruction can be assessed by exploring their etiology. That methodology is applied here to the famous destructions of the temple of Zeus Belos at Apamea (ca. 386) and that of Zeus Marnas at Gaza (ca. 402), both of which, though well-known, have been neglected in recent interpre- tative studies on religious violence. Both accounts are first analyzed accord- ing to the different contexts in which they were written, then considered in terms of the development of episcopal hagiography. This approach opens questions regarding how such stories were actually elaborated in practice. Comparison of several of these discourses that adapted data from ancient stones sheds new light on issues that extend beyond narratives of temple destruction to touch upon the construction of Late Antique civic identities. |
