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23 hours ago · The fourth-century bishop and scholar Eusebius of Caesarea established the genres that would shape subsequent Christian histories for generations. The present chapter seeks to situate the Lost Arian History within this historiographical context by revisiting Eusebius and his historical writings and by identifying his earliest known continuators.
2 days ago · Lactantius states that Galerius manipulated the weakened Diocletian into resigning and forced him to accept Galerius' allies in the imperial succession. According to Lactantius, the crowd listening to Diocletian's resignation speech believed, until the last moment, that Diocletian would choose Constantine and Maxentius (Maximian's son) as his ...
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1 day ago · Boquet and Nagy, through a rigorous examination of the terminology used to express emotion (‘disturbance’ (perturbatio), ‘excitement’ (commotio), and ‘affection’ (affectio)) reveal that it was Lactantius (c. 250–c.325) who took aim at the pre-existing but negative Stoic definition of affectivity (p. 19).
2 days ago · Diocletian ( / ˌdaɪ.əˈkliːʃən /, DYE-ə-KLEE-shən; Latin: Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, Ancient Greek: Διοκλητιανός, romanized : Diokletianós; 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed Jovius, was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Diocles to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia.
5 days ago · With a breathtaking range of erudition, Spitz first traces a tradition of high estimates of human powers, through classical antiquity, Nemesius of Emesa, Lactantius, the early Italian humanists, and Luther (XI.26-39); then he identifies a parallel tradition of pessimism about human powers, through the melancholic tendencies of Boethius ...
2 days ago · Finally, I will investigate how Lactantius, a North African summoned personally by Diocletian to teach rhetoric in Bythinian Nicomedia, but soon thereafter was driven by persecution to Rome, imagined the New Jerusalem at the dawn of the Constantinian turn.
23 hours ago · Ps.-Lactantius, De Ave Phoenice: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz: Rome: This is the second edition of Lactantius’ works; the volume also contains Venantius Fortunatus' De Pascha, since it wrongly attributes it to Lactantius. Venantius Fortunatus, Carmen de Pascha: 1468: Pseudo-Matthaei evangelium
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