Pagan Sculptures in Late Antiquity - Between Destruction and Preservation FREE January 11, 2007

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Ortwin Dally, general secretary of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, discusses changing attitudes towards ancient pagan monuments following the rise of Christianity in the fourth century A.D. While the sculptures that adorned cities throughout the Roman Empire were sometimes destroyed, many were also reused, transferred to other places, or remodeled. Dally cites examples and case studies of pagan statues in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) to demonstrate how the growing influence of Christianity and other cultural factors influenced the placement of sculpture in late antiquity.

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