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BRADBURY, SCOTT ARLEN.

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INNOVATION AND REACTION IN THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE AND JULIAN.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	INNOVATION AND REACTION IN THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE AND JULIAN./
作者:	BRADBURY, SCOTT ARLEN.
面頁冊數:	223 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-05, Section: A, page: 1286.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International48-05A.
標題:	History, Ancient. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8717911

INNOVATION AND REACTION IN THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE AND JULIAN.
BRADBURY, SCOTT ARLEN.

INNOVATION AND REACTION IN THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE AND JULIAN. - 223 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-05, Section: A, page: 1286.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1986.

This study examines various aspects of the reaction of the Emperor Julian to what he and many other pagans perceived as the political and cultural innovations of Constantine the Great and his sons. The first three chapters deal with problems of kingship. In Chapter One, I argue that the Letter to Themistius, the fundamental source for Julian's ideas about kingship, has been misdated and misunderstood. I propose a new date for the letter and argue that it reflects not the meditations of the mature Julian, but the intellectual exercise of a frightened new Caesar who wishes to abstain from politics. The Letter to Themistius emerges as an important witness to the political ideology of the "Hellenes" and to the position of Themistius in the internal philosophical debates within paganism. Chapter Two offers a reappraisal of imperial panegyric as a rhetorical genre and as a vehicle for commentary on kingship. It argues through an analysis of court speeches of Eusebius and Libanius that panegyric can offer valuable commentary on contemporary political issues. I also suggest a new interpretation of the panegyrics of Julian, arguing that they are not directed at a court audience, but at private literary gatherings and reflect the private literary activity of men of paideia in the fourth century. In Chapter Three, I argue that Julian's revival of early imperial civilitas could evoke strong approval from pagan contemporaries because it represented an alternative imperial deportment to the Orientalizing court style of Constantius II, a court style which hostile observers invariably associated with tyranny.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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