The Emperor Julian: Panegyric and PolemicThis collection makes available in English for the first time the panegyric of Claudius Mamertinus (Panegyrici Latini XI/3), a substantial part of the treatise of John Chrysostom on St. Babylas and against Julian (de S. Babyla c. Julianum et gentiles XIV-XIX), and Emphrem Syrus' Hymns Against Julian. |
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Contents
From Caesar to Augustus | 1 |
Antioch and Daphne | 39 |
From Ctesiphon to Nisibis | 87 |
Map of the Roman Eastern Frontier | 129 |
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The Emperor Julian: Panegyric and Polemic: Claudius Mamertinus, John ... Saint Ephraem (Syrus),Claudius Mamertinus No preview available - 1989 |
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