Research Catalog

Title

The Emperor Julian : panegyric and polemic / Claudius Mamertinus, John Chrysostom, Ephrem the Syrian ; edited by Samuel N. C. Lieu.

Publication

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1989.

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Additional Authors

• Lieu, Samuel N. C.
• Mamertinus Claudius, active 4th century
• John Chrysostom, Saint, -407
• Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373
• Mamertinus, Claudius.
• John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.
• Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373.

Description

xiii, 146 p. : 1 map; 21 cm.

Summary

This collection makes available in English for the first time the panegyric of Claudius Mamertinus (Panegyrici Latini XI/3), a substantial part of the treatise of John Chrysostom on St Babylas and against Julian (de S. Babyla c. Julianum et gentiles XIV-XIX), and Emphrem Syrus' Hymns Against Julian. -- Amazon.com.

Series Statement

Translated texts for historians ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Translated texts for historians v. 2.

Subject

• Julian, Emperor of Rome, 331-363
• 361-363
• Emperors > Rome > Biography
• Rome > History > Julian, 361-363 > Sources

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Sources

Note

• Previous ed.: 1986.
• Includes index.
• Translations from the Latin, Greek and Syriac.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 138-144.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A speech of thanks to the Emperor Julian / given by Claudius Mamertinus (Latin panegyric XI/3) -- Homily on St. Babylas, against Julian and the pagans XIV-XIX / John Chrysostom -- Hymns against Julian / by Ephrem the Syrian.

ISBN

0853233764 (pbk) :

LCCN

gb^89043484^

OCLC

• 20394400
• SCSB-12338778

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library