Themistios, who was a most honoured ancient Greek orator in the 4th century, praised the Christian emperors of the Roman Empire in his panegyrics. Many of his pagan contemporaries considered him an opportunist and they were opposed to him for making Platonic philosophy popular. Yet we think that especially pagans should have shown more respect to him, because Themistios’s orations made Christian rulers treat pagans less hard than they were treated earlier. In this study we are focusing on Themistios’s 5th oration in which the author articulated the objectives of religious tolerance in a surprisingly modern way. We have examined the sources of a well known place (Or. 5, 70ab – ed. Downey) in the text through notions like ’hosiotes – eusebei...
Om baggrunden for de romerske kristenforfølgelserGeneral remarks are presented on the subject...
Taking as its starting point the oration delivered in honor of Constantine in Trier by an anonymous ...
Philanthropy, charity, and related concepts were well known to late antiquity and the Middle Ages...
This thesis examines the process of Christianisation at the courts of the Theodosian emperors in a t...
Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman empero...
Focusing on Late Antiquity and in particular the fourth century AD, the question of Emperor Constant...
This article is devoted to the general heritage of Themistius, the orator, philosopher, and rhetoric...
During the past half-century Roman historians have for the most part put political history on the ba...
By attempting to put an end to religious war between Catholics and Protestants, which since two cent...
Today, there is a continued need for new scholarship on Gregory the Theologian (ca. 329 – 390 AD), i...
This article refers to St. Justin, who was one of the Church Fathers, one of the first Christian phi...
Julius Firmicus Maternus, author of De Errore Profanarum Religionum and Mathesis, is an important b...
This study clarifies how Gregory of Nazianzus combines his views on correct doctrine with rhetorical...
Taking as its starting point the oration delivered in honor of Constantine in Trier by an anonymous ...
The present article demonstrates the way in which the byzantine scholar of the 12th century, Eustath...
Om baggrunden for de romerske kristenforfølgelserGeneral remarks are presented on the subject...
Taking as its starting point the oration delivered in honor of Constantine in Trier by an anonymous ...
Philanthropy, charity, and related concepts were well known to late antiquity and the Middle Ages...
This thesis examines the process of Christianisation at the courts of the Theodosian emperors in a t...
Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman empero...
Focusing on Late Antiquity and in particular the fourth century AD, the question of Emperor Constant...
This article is devoted to the general heritage of Themistius, the orator, philosopher, and rhetoric...
During the past half-century Roman historians have for the most part put political history on the ba...
By attempting to put an end to religious war between Catholics and Protestants, which since two cent...
Today, there is a continued need for new scholarship on Gregory the Theologian (ca. 329 – 390 AD), i...
This article refers to St. Justin, who was one of the Church Fathers, one of the first Christian phi...
Julius Firmicus Maternus, author of De Errore Profanarum Religionum and Mathesis, is an important b...
This study clarifies how Gregory of Nazianzus combines his views on correct doctrine with rhetorical...
Taking as its starting point the oration delivered in honor of Constantine in Trier by an anonymous ...
The present article demonstrates the way in which the byzantine scholar of the 12th century, Eustath...
Om baggrunden for de romerske kristenforfølgelserGeneral remarks are presented on the subject...
Taking as its starting point the oration delivered in honor of Constantine in Trier by an anonymous ...
Philanthropy, charity, and related concepts were well known to late antiquity and the Middle Ages...