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  title info:
    title: Imperial invectives against Constantius II
    sub title: Athanasius of Alexandria, History of the Arians, Hilary of Poitiers, Against Constantius and Lucifer of Cagliari, The necessity of dying for the Son of God
  title info:
    title: Imperial invectives against Constantius 2
  name:
    name part: Flower, Richard
    role:
      role term: translator,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: grc
  language:
    language term: lat
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 225 pages : map ; 21 cm.
  abstract: The Roman emperor Constantius II (337-361) has frequently been maligned as a heretic, standing in sharp contrast to his father Constantine I, who set in motion the Christianization of the Roman world and the establishment of Nicene orthodoxy. This reputation is the result of the overwhelmingly negative presentation of Constantius in the surviving literature written by orthodox Christians, who regarded him as an 'Arian' persecutor. This volume presents new translations of texts that were central to the shaping of this hostile legacy, Athanasius of Alexandria's History of the Arians, Hilary of Poitiers' Against Constantius and Lucifer of Cagliari's The Necessity of Dying for the Son of God. These contemporary invectives against the emperor were composed by three bishops who all opposed Constantius' religious policies and were exiled by the imperial and ecclesiastical authorities during the 350s. By constructing polemical accounts of their sufferings at the hands of the emperor and his supporters, these authors drew on the traditions of both classical rhetoric and Christian persecution literature in order to cast Constantius as imitating villains such as Ahab, Judas and Nero, while presenting themselves as fearless opponents of impious tyranny. Moreover, as the earliest surviving invectives against a living Roman emperor, the writings of these three bishops offer a unique opportunity to understand the place of polemical literature in the political culture of the later Roman empire. The translations are accompanied by a substantial introduction and notes which provide a clear guide to the historical and theological context of the period, as well as literary analysis of the texts themselves. This volume will therefore be valuable both to those studying the religious and political history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and also to anyone interested in the development of Roman rhetoric and early Christian literature.
  table of contents: History of the Arians / Athanasius of Alexandria -- Against Constantius / Hilary of Poitiers -- The necessity of dying for the Son of God / Lucifer of Cagliari.
  note: translated with introduction and commentary by Richard Flower.
  note: In English, translated from Ancient Greek and Latin. Athanasius's Historia Arianorum was translated from H.G. Opitz's 1935-1941 edition, Hilary of Poitiers's In Constantium was translated from A. Rocher's 1987 edition (Soruces chrétiennes) and Lucifer of Cagliari's Moriundum esse pro dei filio was translated from G.F. Dierck's 1978 edition (CCSL).
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-206) and indexes.
  subject:
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    geographic code: e------
    geographic code: ff-----
  subject:
    name:
      name part: II, Emperor of Rome
      name part: Constantius
      name part: 317-361
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria
      name part: Athanasius
      name part: -373
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Saint, Bishop of Poitiers
      name part: Hilary
      name part: -367?
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bishop of Cagliari
      name part: Lucifer
      name part: -approximately 370
  subject:
    topic: Public opinion
    geographic: Rome
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Bishops
    geographic: Rome
    topic: Attitudes
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Arianism
    genre: Controversial literature
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    topic: Church history
    temporal: 4th century
  subject:
    topic: Polemics in literature
  classification: DG316.7 .I47 2016
  classification: 270.2 937.08
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Translated texts for historians ; v. 67
  identifier: 9781781383278
  identifier: 1781383278
  identifier: 9781781383285
  identifier: 1781383286
  identifier: 2016461337
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 160405
    record change date: 20210916143404.0
    record identifier: in00003854379