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Polemic and episcopal authority in fourth-century Christianity
… the employment of polemical literature by mid-fourth-century Christian authors as a means of promoting themselves as authoritative and orthodox figures during a period of doctrinal uncertainty. It focuses on the writings of four bishops (Athanasius of Alexandria, Hilary of Poitiers, Lucifer of …
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Greek knowledge of India before the fourth century B.C
… marched over to India towards the end of the 4th century B.C. and incorporated a section of this country in his Empire, it was not the first time that the ancient Greeks were learning about this part of the world, for they had known quite a lot about it already from centuries before. Indian words …
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Studies on the Fourth-Century Athenians' View of Their Past
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Ausonius’ cities: perception of the urban space in fourth-century Gaul
This thesis aimed at studying fourth-century Gallic cities throught he lens of one of its most gifted poet, Ausonius. Born in 310, Ausonius was an Aquitanian nobleman who rose in the service of emperors Valentinian I and Gratian. First of all, it was demonstrated that the poet’s ideal city was …
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A Garden Locked, A Fountain Sealed: Female Virginity as a Model for Holiness in the Fourth Century
<p>Despite centuries of Christian theologians and lay Christians alike assigning and/or accepting an entrenched misogyny in the writings of Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, close examination of their work on its own terms and in its own time reveals that, in fact, they did not hold women in lesser …
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Representations of Human and Satyr Children Through Stages of Childhood Development in Athenian Art of the Sixth to the Fourth Century B.C.E. An Iconographical and Contextual Approach.
<p>The current study considers Athenian childhood through images on Attic vases, plaques, and votive reliefs. A six-stage model of childhood development – newborn to adolescence – was designed to appraise the ages of children. This new model allows for more precise age determination, especially for …
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Aristocratic and Imperial Patronage of the Decorative Arts in Rome and Constantinople, a.d. 337-395: The Role of Sculpture, Painting, Mosaics, and The Minor Arts in Fourth-Century Society
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Saint Ambrose and the Temporal Powers as Shown in His Letters
… position of the Church from her origin until the fourth century. The remaining six chapters show how St. Ambrose in the fourth century determined the role the Christian Emperor was to play within the Church.
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Parting of the Waters: Divergences in Early Theologies of Baptismal Anointing Practices
… with relation to anointing practices. The fourth century shows further liturgical development affected by the Christological and Pneumatological debates, as well as the growth of Christianity both doctrinally and ecclesially. As a result of the heresy debates of the fourth century, many …
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The Persian Persecution: Martyrdom, Politics, and Religious Identity in Late Ancient Syriac Christianity
… According to most interpretations, by the mid-fourth century <italic>Christianitas</italic> had become coextensive with <italic>Romanitas</italic>: Persian Christians were persecuted because they worshipped Caesar's god and, thereby, allied themselves with Rome. </p><p>By contrast, this …
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Mourning, Evil and Grace: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach
… and the hermeneutical interpretation of both fourth century theologians and twentieth century psychologists, I argue that evil and grace are different, equiprimordal ways of mourning-in-the-world.
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O itinerário de Egéria [séc. IV] : olhares sobre um olhar
… that Egeria’s pilgrimage held in the fourth century and which resulted in an Itinerary which, though incomplete, arrived to the present day. We put so our “look”, trough the look of various authors, to give us back the experiences and the “look” of Egeria in a reality so different from …
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Virginity Discourse and Ascetic Politics in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan
… advocates of Christian female virginity in the fourth century C.E. This dissertation examines his writings on virginity in the interest of illuminating the historical and social contexts of his teachings. Considering Ambrose's treatises on virginity as literary productions with social, …
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The insular reception of the Eusebian canon tables: exegesis and iconography
… AD. The tables, devised in Caesarea in the early fourth century, represent one of the most successful patristic attempts to demonstrate the harmony of the quadriform Gospel. Their success is reflected in the series' rapid and widespread transmission. As well as the Insular examples discussed in …
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Age of Philosophy: the self-representation of power in the post-Constantinian empire
… 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 Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine, Constantius II, Themistius, John Chrysostom, and …
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Reading Servius in Context and Reception
The earliest Virgilian manuscripts are from the fourth century, so all we have are multiple receptions of Virgil. Virgil’s most famous commentator, Servius, lived at the time when Roman culture was being Christianised and when the greatness of Rome projected in Virgil was in flux. I focus on the …
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A Commentary on the Fragments of Anaxandrides
… it within the historical context of the fourth century B.C. and the literary context of Middle Comedy generally. Evidence is provided to support the notion that Anaxandrides was both an important comic poet during his lifetime and influential on the development of later comedy. This study …
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Religion and Rhetoric at the Courts of the Theodosians, c. 379-404 A.D.
… in a twenty-five year period at the end of the fourth century and the start of the fifth. It does so through the orations of two pagan orators who carved out successful careers for themselves during this period: in the Greek East, at the court of Theodosius I in Constantinople, the Aristotelian …
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