Research Catalog

Title

Emperor and author : the writings of Julian the Apostate / editors Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher ; contributors Nicholas Baker-Brian ... [et al.].

Publication

Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baker-Brian, Nicholas, 1973-
• Tougher, Shaun

Description

xxi, 384 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• History, Ancient
• Rome > History > Julian, 361-363
• Historiography
• Julian, Emperor of Rome, 331-363 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 12-8053

ISBN

• 9781905125500
• 190512550X

OCLC

714722159

Title

Emperor and author : the writings of Julian the Apostate / editors Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher ; contributors Nicholas Baker-Brian ... [et al.].

Publisher

Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Baker-Brian, Nicholas, 1973- editor, contributor.

Tougher, Shaun, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-8053