Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indice: Introduction: From Rome to Constantinople / Lucy Grig and Gavin Kelly ; Competing capitals, competing representations: late antique cityscapes in words and pictures / Lucy Grig ; Old and new Rome compared: the rise of Constantinople / Bryan Ward-Perkins ; The Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae / John Matthews ; Water and late antique Constantinople: "It would be abominable for the inhabitants of the beautiful city to be compelled to purchase water." / James Crow ; Aristocratic houses and the making of late antique Rome and Constantinople / Carlos Machado ; Valentinian III and the City of Rome (425-55): patronage, politics, power / Mark Humphries ; Playing the ritual game in Constantinople (379-457) / Peter Van Nuffelen ; Bright lights, big city: Pacatus and the Panegyrici Latini / Roger Rees ; A tale of two cities: Themistius on Rome and Constantinople / John Vanderspoel ; Claudian and Constantinople / Gavin Kelly ; Epic panegyric and political communication in the fifth-century west / Andrew Gillett ; There but not there: Constantinople in the Itinerarium Burdigalense / Benet Salway ; Virgilizing Christianity in late antique Rome / John Curran ; "Two Romes, beacons of the whole world": canonizing Constantinople / Neil McLynn ; Between petrine ideology and realpolitik: The see of Constantinople in Roman geo-ecclesiology (449-536) / Philippe Blaudeau ; From Rome to new Rome, from empire to nation-state: reopening the question of Byzantium's Roman identity / Anthony Kaldellis