Contents
Introduction - Nicholas Baker-Brian
and Shaun Tougher 1 Julian the writer and his audience - Susanna
Elm
2 Reading between the lines:
Julian’s First Panegyric on Constantius - Shaun Tougher
3 ‘But I digress...’: Rhetoric and propaganda in Julian’s second oration to Constantius
- Hal Drake
4 Is there an empress in the text? Julian’s Speech of Thanks to Eusebia - Liz
James
5 Julian’s Consolation to Himself on the Departure of the Excellent Salutius:
Rhetoric and philosophy in the fourth century - Josef Lössl
6 The tyrant’s mask? Images of good and bad rule in Julian’s Letter to the Athenians
- Mark Humphries
7 Julian’s Letter to Themistius – and Themistius’ response? - John W. Watt
8
The emperor’s shadow: Julian in his correspondence - Michael Trapp
9 Julian the
lawgiver - Jill Harries
10 Words and deeds: Julian in the epigraphic
record - Benet Salway
11 Julian and his coinage: a very Constantinian
prince - Fernando
López Sánchez
12 Roman authority, imperial authoriality, and Julian’s artistic program - Eric
R. Varner
13 Julian’s Hymn to the Mother of the Gods: the revival and justification of
traditional religion - J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz
14 Julian’s Hymn to King Helios: the economical use of complex Neoplatonic concepts
- Andrew Smith
15 The forging of an Hellenic orthodoxy: Julian’s speeches against the Cynics
- Arnaldo Marcone
16 The Christian context of Julian’s Against the Galileans - David Hunt
17 The
politics of virtue in Julian’s Misopogon - Nicholas Baker-Brian
18 The Caesars
of Julian the Apostate in translation and reception, 1580–ca. 1800 - Rowland
Smith
19 Afterword: Studying Julian the author - Jacqueline Long |