| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 384 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Julian, Emperor of Rome, 331-363 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Julian, Emperor of Rome, 331-363 fast |
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Julian Römisches Reich, Kaiser 331-363 gnd |
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Julianus, romersk kejsare, 331-363 -- analys och tolkning. sao |
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Emperors' writings, Greek -- History and criticism
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History, Ancient.
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Historiography.
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historiography.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Emperors' writings, Greek
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Historiography
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History, Ancient
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Literatur
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Bysantinsk litteratur -- historia -- 300-talet.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- History -- Julian, 361-363.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115165
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baker-Brian, Nicholas, 1973- editor, contributor.
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Tougher, Shaun, editor
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| ISBN |
9781910589144 |
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1910589144 |
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