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Editorial| September 01 2020 Representation Elizabeth DePalma Digeser Elizabeth DePalma Digeser Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Studies in Late Antiquity (2020) 4 (3): 257–259. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2020.4.3.257 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Elizabeth DePalma Digeser; Representation. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 September 2020; 4 (3): 257–259. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2020.4.3.257 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search After Justinian's conquest of Italy, bishop Agnellus presented anew to Ravenna the church formerly called “Golden Heaven.” Once the palace church of Theoderic, Italy's erstwhile Ostrogothic king, the basilica now honored Saint Martin, the warrior whose sixth-century reputation for fighting Arianism helped the bishop emphasize the triumph of imperial Byzantine orthodoxy over Italy, Vandal Africa, and the southern coast of Visigothic Spain.1 In order to accentuate the point, new interior mosaics depicted Martin leading a procession of male martyrs along the south wall toward the enthroned Christ while a line of female martyrs march along the north wall toward the Virgin. Among these women, most of whom hailed from Ravenna, Rome, and Milan, walked the African saints, Perpetua and Felicitas.2 As Brent Shaw argues in this issue (“Doing It in Greek: Translating Perpetua”), the move to incorporate Perpetua and Felicitas within the iconography of what is now Sant'Apollinare... You do not currently have access to this content.