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The Emperor Julian : panegyric and polemic

Claudius Mamertinus, John Chrysostom, Ephrem the Syrian ; edited by Samuel N. C. Lieu

(Translated texts for historians, v. 2)

Liverpool University Press, 1989

2nd ed

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Note

First published 1986

Bibliography: p. [138]-144

Includes index

Translations from the Latin, Greek and Syriac

Contents of Works

  • Latin panegyric XI(3) / Claudius Mamertinus
  • Homily on St. Babylas, against Julian and the pagans XIV-XIX / John Chrysostom
  • Hymns against Julian / Ephrem the Syrian

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • From Caesar to Augustus - a speech of thanks to the Emperor Julian given by Claudius Mamertinus
  • Antioch and Daphne - "Homily on St Babylas, Against Julian and the Pagans", John Chrysostom
  • from Ctesiphon to Nisbis, "Hymns Against Julian", Ephrem the Syrian.

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