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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Themistius"”.
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"Toward a New Edition of Themistius' Paraphrase of Aristotle's ""De Anima"""
Providing a new edition of Themistius' paraphrase of the de Anima is my ultimate objective. However, given the limited scope of a dissertation, I have restricted myself to an examination of only a portion of the paraphrase. The segment of the text under consideration, 3.4--3.8, is that which deals …
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Religion and Rhetoric at the Courts of the Theodosians, c. 379-404 A.D.
… the Aristotelian philosopher and rhetor, Themistius; in the Latin West, the poet Claudian, who delivered a number of orations in the form of epic poems at the court of Honorius, and the boy-emperor’s de facto regent Stilicho. The central argument of the thesis is that the religious …
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Age of Philosophy: the self-representation of power in the post-Constantinian empire
… of Caesarea, Constantine, Constantius II, Themistius, John Chrysostom, and Gregory of Nazianzus. When considering the strategies developed by fourth-century leaders to legitimise their authority through literature, what is striking are the level of engagement with philosophical authorities …