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Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Scholar's name to ffep (A. R. Littlewood). Faint dampstain to lower corner of book. Small tear to base of spine (repaired with cellotape). Spine darkened. Endpapers browned.; Loeb Classical Library No. 29; 1; 511 pages; Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate", Roman Emperor, lived 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and philosophy and became a pagan, studying in various Greek cities. In 355 his cousin Emperor Constantius called him from Athens to the court at Milan, entitled him "Caesar", and made him governor of Gaul. Julian restored Gaul to prosperity and good government after the ravages of the Alamanni (he overthrew them at the battle of Strassburg in 357) and other Germans. Between 357 and 361 Julian's own soldiers, refusing to serve in the East at Constantius's orders, nearly involved Julian in war with Constantius?who however died in 361 so that Julian became sole Emperor of the Roman world. He began many reforms and proclaimed universal toleration in religion but pressed for the restoration of the older pagan worships. In 362?363 he prepared at Constantinople and then at Antioch for his expedition against Persia ruled by Shapur II. He died of a wound received in desperate battle. Julian's surviving works (lost are his Commentaries on his western campaigns) , all in Greek, are given in the Loeb Classical Library in three volumes. The eight Orations (1-5 in Volume I, 6-8 in Volume II) include two in praise of Constantius, one praising Constantius's wife Eusebia, and two theosophical hymns (in prose) or declamations, of interest for studies in neo-Platonism, Mithraism, and the cult of the Magna Mater in the Roman world. The satirical Caesars and Misopogon, Beard-hater, are also in Volume II. The Letters (more than eighty, Volume III) include edicts or rescripts, mostly about Christians, encyclical or pastoral letters to priests, and private letters. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Scholar's name to ffep (A. R. Littlewood). DJ is tattered and torn and in 2 pieces with chipping and foxing; Loeb Classical Library No. 29; 2; 519 pages; Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate", Roman Emperor, lived 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and philosophy and became a pagan, studying in various Greek cities. In 355 his cousin Emperor Constantius called him from Athens to the court at Milan, entitled him "Caesar", and made him governor of Gaul. Julian restored Gaul to prosperity and good government after the ravages of the Alamanni (he overthrew them at the battle of Strassburg in 357) and other Germans. Between 357 and 361 Julian's own soldiers, refusing to serve in the East at Constantius's orders, nearly involved Julian in war with Constantius?who however died in 361 so that Julian became sole Emperor of the Roman world. He began many reforms and proclaimed universal toleration in religion but pressed for the restoration of the older pagan worships. In 362?363 he prepared at Constantinople and then at Antioch for his expedition against Persia ruled by Shapur II. He died of a wound received in desperate battle. Julian's surviving works (lost are his Commentaries on his western campaigns) , all in Greek, are given in the Loeb Classical Library in three volumes. The eight Orations (1-5 in Volume I, 6-8 in Volume II) include two in praise of Constantius, one praising Constantius's wife Eusebia, and two theosophical hymns (in prose) or declamations, of interest for studies in neo-Platonism, Mithraism, and the cult of the Magna Mater in the Roman world. The satirical Caesars and Misopogon, Beard-hater, are also in Volume II. The Letters (more than eighty, Volume III) include edicts or rescripts, mostly about Christians, encyclical or pastoral letters to priests, and private letters.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 528 pages. 6.75x4.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. pp. 528.

Zustand: New. pp. 520.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 528 pages. 6.75x4.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 134. Greek and English. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and LCL monogram to front board. xliii, 596 p.p. Dust jacket has some light wear to extremities, worse at corners, and some chafing to rear. Sunning to spine. Flavius Philostratus 'the Athenian' (ca. AD 170-05) was a Greek sophist who studed at Athens and later lived in Rome. He was author of the admirable Life of Apollonius of Tyanna and Lives of the Sophists. The Greek sophist and historian Eunapius was born at Sardis in AD 347, but went to Athens to study and lived much of his life there, teaching rhetoric and possibly medicine. He was initiated into the mysteries and was hostile to Christians. His Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (mainly contemporary with himself) is our only source for knowledge of Neo-Platonism in the later part of the fourth century.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (331 or 332-363 CE) include eight Orations Misopogon (Beard-hater), assailing the morals of the people of Antioch more than eighty Letters and fragments of Against the Galileans, written main.

Zustand: New. The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (331 or 332-363 CE) include eight Orations Misopogon (Beard-hater), assailing the morals of the people of Antioch more than eighty Letters and fragments of Against the Galileans, written main.

Zustand: gut. Loeb Classical Library Nr. 134 Philostratus and Eunapius Lives of the Sophists In englischer Sprache. pages.