Ioannis Papadopoulos is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of History of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, focusing on identity issues in Roman Greece and on traces of anti-Roman discourse in the works of the Second Sophistic.

• Introduction: Between a Physical and an Imaginary City I Looking Backwards: Ordo Renascendi II The Adventus of Constantius III Between Rome and Athens: The Artificial Romanitas of Julian IV Between the Altar and the Court: Symmachus and Claudian in Action V Between Christ and a Roman Place: The Emergence of Christian Rome in Time and Space VI Between Jerusalem and Babylon: The Archetype of Rome in the City of God Conclusions: From Rome to Eternity Bibliography Index