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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Synesius of Cyrene"”.
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Mapping a Late Antique Republic of Letters
This is a study of how the letters of Procopius of Gaza, Aeneas of Gaza, Synesius of Cyrene, and Isidore of Pelusium, created circuits of intellectual sociability and exchange transcending the territorial limits of Empire and thereby affirmed their participation in a common culture of Learning. The …
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Age of Philosophy: the self-representation of power in the post-Constantinian empire
This thesis investigates the use of traditional philosophical concepts to legitimise new structures of power in the writings of the fourth-century Greco-Roman elite, with special attention to the emperor Julian “the Apostate” and the philosopher-bishop Synesius of Cyrene, but including also …