Emperor and Author

Emperor and Author PDF Author: Nicholas J. Baker-Brian
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
ISBN: 1910589144
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in English of all the writings of Julian (r. AD 361-363), the last pagan emperor of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-conscious challenge to Christianity. The book also contains treatments of Julian's laws, inscriptions, coinage, as well as his artistic programme. Across nineteen papers, international specialists in the field of Late Antique Studies offer original interpretations of an extraordinary figure: emperor and philosopher, soldier and accomplished writer. Julian, his life and writings, are here considered as parts of the tumult in politics, culture and religion during the Fourth Century AD. New light is shed on Julian's distinctive literary style and imperial agenda. The volume also includes an up-to-date, consolidated bibliography.

Emperor and Author

Emperor and Author PDF Author: Nicholas J. Baker-Brian
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
ISBN: 1910589144
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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Book Description
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in English of all the writings of Julian (r. AD 361-363), the last pagan emperor of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-conscious challenge to Christianity. The book also contains treatments of Julian's laws, inscriptions, coinage, as well as his artistic programme. Across nineteen papers, international specialists in the field of Late Antique Studies offer original interpretations of an extraordinary figure: emperor and philosopher, soldier and accomplished writer. Julian, his life and writings, are here considered as parts of the tumult in politics, culture and religion during the Fourth Century AD. New light is shed on Julian's distinctive literary style and imperial agenda. The volume also includes an up-to-date, consolidated bibliography.

The Emperor Julian

The Emperor Julian PDF Author: Robert Browning
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520037311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Julian the Apostate

Julian the Apostate PDF Author: Glen Warren Bowersock
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674488823
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Proceeding directly from an evaluation of the ancient sources--the testimony of friends and enemies of Julian as well as the writings of the emperor himself--the author traces Julian's youth, his command of the Roman forces in Gaul, and his emergence as sole ruler in the course of a dramatic march to Constantinople.

The Works of the Emperor Julian

The Works of the Emperor Julian PDF Author: Julian (Emperor of Rome)
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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The Emperor Julian

The Emperor Julian PDF Author: Samuel N. C. Lieu
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853233763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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This collection makes available in English for the first time the panegyric of Claudius Mamertinus (Panegyrici Latini XI/3), a substantial part of the treatise of John Chrysostom on St Babylas and against Julian (de S. Babyla c. Julianum et gentiles XIV-XIX), and Emphrem Syrus' Hymns Against Julian.

The Works of the Emperor Julian: Orations I-V

The Works of the Emperor Julian: Orations I-V PDF Author: Julian (Emperor of Rome)
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Greek & English texts.

The works of the Emperor Julian

The works of the Emperor Julian PDF Author: Apostata Julianus
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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The Works of the Emperor Julian

The Works of the Emperor Julian PDF Author: Julian (Emperor of Rome)
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Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church

Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church PDF Author: Susanna Elm
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520287541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast between the Church and the Emperor’s neo-Paganism, but rather to find their common intellectual and social grounding. Her insightful analysis, supplemented by her magisterial command of sources, demonstrates the ways in which both men were part of the same dialectical whole. Elm recasts both Julian and Gregory as men entirely of their times, showing how the Roman Empire in fact provided Christianity with the ideological and social matrix without which its longevity and dynamism would have been inconceivable.

Against the Galilaeans

Against the Galilaeans PDF Author: Juilan the Apostate
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ISBN: 9781915645197
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Against the Galileans (where "Galileans" meant the followers of the man from Galilee, or Christians) was written by the last pagan Emperor of Rome, Flavius Claudius Julianus, who lived from 331-363 AD, as part of his attempts to reverse the Empire's conversion to Christianity started by Emperor Constantine in 313 AD. This work was acknowledged by one of Julian's greatest critics, Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria, as one of the most powerful books of its sort ever written. Even though Cyril was Patriarch nearly 90 years after Julian's death, he was motivated to write a refutation titled Contra Iulianum ("Against Julian"). For more than 200 years, Julian's book remained the standard criticism of Christianity. Finally, in an attempt to suppress the work, the Emperor Justinian I (527-565) ordered all copies of the book destroyed. As a result, the only record of Julian's book remained in the parts quoted from in it in Cyril's criticism. It was only more than 1,200 years later that the English classical scholar Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) first translated Cyril's work into English-and from that, attempted a reconstruction of Julian's book based on Julian's quotes from Cyril's work. Taylor titled this manuscript "The Arguments of the Emperor Julian against the Christians, translated from the Greek fragments preserved from the Greek fragments preserved by Cyril Bishop of Alexandria, to which are added, Extracts from the other works of Julian relative to the Christians" and privately published his reconstruction in 1809 for a very limited circle of friends. Taylor's reconstruction was finally published for a larger audience by William Nevis in 1873. This new edition contains the full Taylor reconstruction, along with his original appendices. From 1913 to 1923, British-American classical philologist and Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, Wilmer Cave Wright, retranslated all of Julian's works. Wright included a new translation of the exact quotes only from Julian, as reproduced by Cyril, and some other remaining fragments. Wright's original manuscript is also included in this new edition, making it to be the most complete reconstruction of Julian's book ever printed.