Index
Index Abraharn,30,36, 37,128,129,130,152 de Acosta, Jose, 171 Actium, 155 Acts, 2, 72 Adam, 47,71 Adonis, 21 Mrica, 19, 79, 85 Against Apion, 31. See alsoJosephus Against Celsus, 45, 47, 154. See also Origen Against the Christians. See Porphyry Aigai, 128, 164 Alexander the Great, 16--17 Alexandria, 36, 48, 111, 170; library of, 17 Altar of Victory, 169-70 Algonquins, 172 Amelius, 62, 63, 68 Americas, 171 Ammonius Saccas, 15, 62, 73 Anaxagoras, 84 Anaxarchus, 16 Anaximenes, 84 Ancyra, 91 Antioch, 16, 111, 112, 128, 146; Council of (325 C.E.), 111 Antiochus 1V Epiphanes, 68 Antoninus Pius (emperor), 42 Apamea, 19, 28 Aphaca, 128, 129, 132-35, 161, 163, 164 Aphrodite, 164; worshiped at Heliopolis, 128 Apollo, 56, 58, 64, 74, 75, 81, 84, 87-90, 94, 128, 144, 146--47, 159 Apollinaris of Laodicea, 79 Apollonius ofTyana, 52, 75, 128 Apollophanes, 73 apologists, Christian, 1-4, 11, 13, 28, 29, 31-34, 38,45,50,51,90, 133,166,173, 176 apologetic literature: Christian, 2-5, 32-34, 80-81; and imperial discourses, 38-45, 166--67, 168, 170, 176;Jevnsh, 29-32, 35-37; in Paul's Letter to the Rnmans, 34-39 Aquinas, Thomas, 174 Arabs, 159, 173 Arian crisis, 111 Aristides, 2, 33 Arius, 53 Aristotle, 60 Arnobius of Sicca, 79, 84 Artapanus, 18, 29, 30 Asclepius, 41, 84, 94, 159, 164; worshiped at Aigai, 128 Asklepiades of Cyprus, 58 Assyria and Assyrians, 46, 56, 113 astrology, 30, 44 Athena, 159 Athenaeus of Attaleia, 20 Athenagoras, 2 Athens and Athenians, 8, 16, 42, 73 Atlas, 30 Attic dialect, 57 Augustine of Hippo, 35, 53, 57, 58, 70, 74-75, 80, 85, 87, 89, 170, 174; City of G0~ 53,55-56,74-75,80 Augustus, 121, 131, 154, 155, 169 Aurelian (emperor), 116 Babylon and Babylonians 19, 44, 69, 99, 114, 115-17 Baccheius (grandfather ofjustin Martyr), 39 248 Index Bardaisan, 58 Berossos of Chaldea, 18, 29 Bithynia, 2, 81 Brahmin(s), 26, 56, 58 de Brebeuf, Jean, 172 Caesar (Gaiusjulius Caesar), 71 Caesarea Maritima, 72, 136-37 Calama, 170 Cambyses, 119 Canaanites, 99 Canada,l72 Cappadocia and Capadocian(s), 155 Caracalla, 7. See also Constitutio Antoniana Carausius, 1 Carthage and Carthaginians, 16, 160 Castricius, 60 Celsus, 12, 45-50, 154. See also Origen Celts, 18, 19, 21 Central America, 171 Chaeremon (Stoic philosopher), 58, 61 Chaldea and Chaldeans, 18, 23, 29, 55, 59, 69, 173 Chaldean Oracles, 59, 174 Chrysippus (Stoic philosopher), 20, 21 Chrysopolis, 4, 110 Cicero,37,84,85,90, 105-6,120,167 Cilicia and Cilicians, 48, 159 Cimbri, 19, 20 Cleanthes (Stoic philosopher), 20, 21, 84 Clement of Alexandria, 2, 15, 23, 31, 33, 37,50,174 consensus theory, 21, 81-84, 96, 120. See also cross-cultural comparison Constans, 123 Constantine, 4, 12, 13, 50, 53, 67, 79, 81, 110-35, 156, 157, 158, 161, 163, 164, 166, 167, 169, 171, 176; baptism and death, 156, 165; and Council of Antioch (325 C.E.), 111; and Council ofNicaea, 112, 137; and Eusebius, 159, 161-65; imperial ideology of, 134-35; and Lactantius, 106-9; "Letter to Council of Aries" (314 C.E.), 107; "Letter to the Eastern Provincials" ("Against Polytheism"), 123-26; "Letter to the Palestianians" ("On Piety"), 123-26; Oration to the Saints, 12, 111-35; patron of monumental building projects, 129-31, 162-64; tricennalia of, 156 Constantinople, 156 Constantius I, 1 Constantius II, 123, 169 Constitutio Antoniana, 7. See also Caracalla Cornutus (Stoic philosopher), 21, 22, 36, 73 Ccrrpus Hermeticum, 84, 86 Council ofAntioch (325 C.E.), Ill Council ofNicaea (325 C.E.), 112, 123 Crescens (Cynic philosopher), 15, 42, 45 Crete, 31, 159 Crispus, 106; and Lactantius, 79 Cronius, 73 cross-cultural comparison: and the category "religion," 174-75; in Celsus, 46; among Christian intellectuals, 32-33; among Greek philosophers, 18-19, 21, 25-28; inJustin, 41-42; in Lactantius, 81-82; in Porphyry, 55-60; in Tatian, 44-45. See also ethnography and ethnology cultural identity, 5-6 Cusanus, Nicholas, 173 Cybele, 47 Cyprian, 51, 80 Cyril of Alexandria, 53 Daphne, oracle of Apollo at, 169 Decius (emperor), 116 Delphi, oracle ofApollo at, 21, 91 Demeter, 21, 144, 159 Demetrius of Phalerum, 17 Didyma, oracle of Apollo at, 128 Diocletian: edict on marriages, 132; and the "Great Persecution," 52-53, 80, 87, 166, 169; and Lactantius, 79, 98, 104, 106; in the Oration to the Saints, 116-18, 121; religious policies of, 76-79, 110, 112, 131...
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