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University of California Press
- Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-x
- Abbreviations
- pp. xv-xviii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xxii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Part One
- 2. Julian, from Caesar to Augustus
- pp. 60-87
- 3. Philosopher, Leader, Priest
- pp. 88-144
- Part Two
- 5. The Most Potent Pharmakon
- pp. 182-212
- 6. Armed like a Hoplite
- pp. 213-266
- Part Three
- 7. A Health-Giving Star Shining on the East
- pp. 269-335
- 8. The Making of the Apostate
- pp. 336-377
- 9. A Bloodless Sacrifice ofWords to theWord
- pp. 378-432
- 10. Gregory’s Second Strike, Oration 5
- pp. 433-478
- Conclusion
- pp. 479-488
- Bibliography
- pp. 489-528
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520951655
Related ISBN(s)
9780520269309
MARC Record
OCLC
777375644
Pages
558
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No