Emperor and author : the writings of Julian the Apostate /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baker-Brian, Nicholas, 1973- (Editor , Contribuidor), Tougher, Shaun (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2012.
Temas:
Julian, > Emperor of Rome, > 331-363 > Criticism and interpretation.
Julian, > Emperor of Rome, > 331-363.
Julian > Römisches Reich, Kaiser > 331-363
Julianus, > romersk kejsare, > 331-363 > analys och tolkning.
361-363
Emperors' writings, Greek > History and criticism.
History, Ancient.
Historiography.
Histoire ancienne.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Emperors' writings, Greek.
Literatur
Bysantinsk litteratur > historia > 300-talet.
Rome > History > Julian, 361-363.
Rome > Histoire > 361-363 (Julien)
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher
  • Julian the writer and his audience / Susanna Elm
  • Reading between the lines : Julian's First Panegyric on Constantius II / Shaun Tougher
  • 'But I digress ... ' : rhetoric and propaganda in Julian's second oration to Constantius / Hal Drake
  • Is there an empress in the text? : Julian's Speech of thanks to Eusebia / Liz James
  • Julian's Consolation to himself on the departure of the excellent Salutius : rhetoric and philosophy in the fourth centurry / Josef Lössl
  • The tyrant's mask? : images of good and bad rule in Julian's Letter to the Athenians / Mark Humphries
  • Julian's Letter to Themistius
  • and Themistius' response? / John W. Watt
  • The emperor's shadow : Julian in his correspondence / Michael Trapp
  • Julian the lawgiver / Jill Harries
  • Words and deeds : Julian in the epigraphic record / Benet Salway
  • Julian and his coinage : a very Constantinian prince / Fernando López Sánchez
  • Roman authority, imperial authoriality, and Julian's artistic program / Eric R. Varner
  • Julian's Hymn to the mother of the gods : the revival and justification of traditional religion / J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz
  • Julian's Hymn to King Helios : the economical use of complex Neoplatonic concepts / Andrew Smtih
  • The forging of an Hellenic orthodoxy : Julian's speeches against the cynics / Arnaldo Marcone
  • The Christian context of Julian's Against the Galileans / David Hunt
  • The politics of virtue in Julian's Misopogon / Nicholas Baker-Brian
  • The Caesars of Julian the Apostate in translation and reception, 1580-ca. 1800 / Rowland Smith
  • Afterword. Studying Julian the author / Jacqueline Long.

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