FEB. 5:  RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN THE FOURTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES

The Great Church of Hagia Sophia.                       More Pictures.

John Chrysostom:

Buying the gratitude of the masses:  the spectacular (and expensive) chariot races

"After the show is over, what is left but empty glory?"

Where this empty glory will take you:

Augustine, fifth-century mosaic:

Augustine in his study (Carpaccio)

"Take and Read":  Augustine's Conversion (Gozzoli)