Politics, Philosophy, and Empire in the Fourth Century: Select Orations of Themistius
by Peter Heather (Translator), David Moncur (Translator), Themistius
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Around the year 350, a young orator and philosopher called Themistius delivered a speech to the Emperor Constantius II in Ancyra (modern Ankara). Themistius found great favour with the Emperor, who catapulted him into the Constantinople Senate in 355. He was similarly favoured by subsequent emperors ? Jovian (363 ?64), Valens (364 ?78) and Theodosius (379 ?95). This volume presents translations of a selection of the speeches of Themistius, grouped into chapters that deal either with a key show more period in the evolution of his career or with a sequence of events of particular historical significance. show lessTags
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Peter Heather is Professor of Medieval History at King's College London, and author of The Fall of the Roman Empire, Empires and Barbarians, and The Restoration of Rome.
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- Politics, Philosophy, and Empire in the Fourth Century: Select Orations of Themistius
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- 185 — Philosophy & psychology Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy Aristotelian philosophy
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- PA4441 .T5 .A24 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Greek literature Individual authors
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