Themistius, Julian and Greek Political Theory Under Rome
Author: Simon Swain
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781107516601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Simon Swain
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781107516601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Simon Swain
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781107506251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Simon Swain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-28
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1107512255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Themistius' close relationship with Christian emperors from Constantius to Theodosius makes him one of the most important political thinkers and politicians of the later fourth century, and his dealings with Julian the Apostate have recently attracted much speculation. This volume presents a new critical edition, translation and analysis of Themistius' letter to Julian about kingship and government, which survives mainly in Arabic, together with texts, translations and analyses of Julian's Letter to Themistius and Sopater's Letter to Himerius. The volume is completed with a text, translation and analysis of the other genuine work of Greek political theory to survive in Arabic, the Letter of Aristotle to Alexander, which dates from an earlier period and throws into relief the particular concerns of Themistius, Julian, and the rulers of the fourth-century Roman world.
Author: Simon Swain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-28
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1107026571
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A critical edition, translation and analysis of four texts illustrating the relation of kings and courtiers in the fourth-century Roman world.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-12-13
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 135008509X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The two texts translated in this volume of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series both compare the happiness of the practical life, which is subject to the hazards of fortune, with the happiness of the life of philosophical contemplation, which is subject to fewer needs. The first is Michael of Ephesus' 12th-century commentary on Book 10 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, written (alongside his commentaries on Books 5 and 9) to fill gaps in the Neoplatonists' commentaries from the 6th century. He recognizes that lives of practicality and philosophy may be combined, and gives his own account of the superiority of the contemplative. The second is Themistius' text On Virtue, written in the 4th century AD. He was an important teacher and commentator on Aristotle, an orator and leading civil servant in Constantinople. His philosophical oration is here argued to be written in support of the Emperor Julian's insistence against the misuse of free speech by a Cynic Heraclius, who had satirised him. Julian had previously criticised Themistius but here he combines his political and philosophical roles in seeking to mend relations with his former pupil.
Author: Simon Swain
Publisher:
Published: 2023-04-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781802078473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Themistius and Valens offers the first complete English translation and analysis of Themistius' speeches for or on behalf of the emperor Valens (r. 364-378). As a westerner and a Latin speaker, Valens had a tough job to convince the aristocracies of Constantinople and the East that he shared their expectations and knew how to preserve their wealth and security. By 364 Themistius already enjoyed huge influence. He was famous as a philosopher who was 'an exceptional citizen', and his leadership of the dramatic expansion of the senate in 359 gave him the best address book in town. His ambition and political sense made him a perfect ally for communicating imperial policy and action. These speeches present the major issues Valens faced: his right to rule alongside the western emperor, his brother Valentinian, his handling of the revolt of Procopius, his ability to manage the empire's economy and borders, his wars against the Goths and the Persians, his controversial religious and judicial policies, and the clever diplomatic work Themistius undertook for him in the lead up to his death in battle in 378.
Author: John Vanderspoel
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780472104857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The conflict between duty and individual freedom
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-10
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9004370927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire offers new critical analysis of the textual depictions of a series of emperors in the fourth century within overlapping historical, religious and literary contexts.
Author: David Neal Greenwood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-03-29
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1040006167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Late Antiquity was an era of remarkable change as beliefs were shaped and reshaped by the competing philosophies of traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neoplatonist philosophy, and the theology of the early Church. Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle between Christianity and paganism are reductive. The research presented in this Variorum volume, originally published between 2013 and 2018 in the fields of history, divinity, and philosophy, demonstrates the complexity of the age and provides a more complete picture of major actors including the emperor Julian, Porphyry of Tyre, and Celsus. From the second to the fourth centuries, these were some of the major players in attempting to define the terrain in the conflict between their philosophies and the Christian religion. While the timeframe remains consistently within the late second to the mid-fourth centuries A.D., the sources range between inscriptions, literature, and historical accounts. The particular focus is the emperor Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus, d. 363), a figure of perennial interest, as not only the last pagan emperor, but the last anti-Christian polemicist of real significance in antiquity. This volume offers a new perspective on Julian, bringing together research from ancient history, Neoplatonist philosophy, and patristic theology, and will be useful to students and scholars alike.
Author: John W. Watt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-02-14
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0429817487
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents a panorama of Syriac engagement with Aristotelian philosophy primarily situated in the 6th to the 9th centuries, but also ranging to the 13th. It offers a wide range of articles, opening with surveys on the most important philosophical writers of the period before providing detailed studies of two Syriac prolegomena to Aristotle’s Categories and examining the works of Hunayn, the most famous Arabic translator of the 9th century. Watt also examines the relationships between philosophy, rhetoric and political thought in the period, and explores the connection between earlier Syriac tradition and later Arabic philosophy in the thought of the 13th century Syriac polymath Bar Hebraeus. Collected together for the first time, these articles present an engaging and thorough history of Aristotelian philosophy during this period in the Near East, in Syriac and Arabic.