Classics/Religion 196

Pagans and Christians

Spring 2016

Professor Barbara Saylor Rodgers

MWF 1:10-2:00

481 Main, Room 301 (office)

Lafayette L200

This course focuses first on the phenomena of religious observances within the Roman republic and early empire and also on opposition when traditional practice was confronted with Christianity in the first three centuries of our era: how one side saw the other, how each side saw differences within as well as without, what people said and what they did, how they defined their beliefs and practices not absolutely but in view of others'. What is at issue is what the ancients believed was true of themselves and true of what they revered, and what they believed was true of others. Over the course of the fourth through sixth centuries Christianity gained not only widespread acceptance but dominance of the political system.

This syllabus is still in flux! Do not print it out!


Texts (also all on reserve under Classics 196 and Religion 196):

Lucian. Selected Dialogues, ed. C.D.N. Costa. Oxford 2009. [Cited by title of work within the book]
Ramsay Macmullen. Christianizing the Roman Empire. Yale University Press 1986. [= MacMullen CRE]
Robert L. Wilken. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. Yale University Press 2003 [= Wilken]

Other works on reserve at the library

P.R.L. Brown. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity. 1981 [= Brown Cult]
P.R.L. Brown. Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity. 1981 [= Brown Society]
P.R.L. Brown. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000. 2003 [Brown Rise]
Donatist Martyr Stories: the Church in Conflict in Roman North Africa, translated with notes and introduction by Maureen A. Tilley. 1996 [cited by title of work within the book]
Aryeh Kofsky. Eusebius of Caesarea against Paganism. 2003 [= Kofsky]
Robin Lane Fox. Pagans and Christians. 1987 [= P&C]
Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton, edd. Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing. 2003 [cited by title of chapter within the book and inclusive page numbers]
A. Momigliano, ed. The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century. 1963. [cited by title of chapter within the book]

Other resources:

Already available in Reference (non-circulating) is the following useful book: G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar, edd. Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. 1999. DE5 .L29 1999

List of Roman Emperors from Augustus to Heraclius

The very useful De Imperatoribus Romanis

Three volumes of the Cambridge Ancient History:

CAH Volume 12
CAH Volume 13
CAH Volume 14

Ancient Sources

There are translated texts of many of the early church fathers as well as Eutropius' Breviarium and some of the orations of Julian and Libanius, letters from Libanius to Julian, Eunapius of Sardis Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Zosimus at tertullian.org and translated texts of many of the church fathers at New Advent

Lacus Curtius has a variety of texts and other features

Paul Halsall's Internet Medieval Sourcebook also contains a variety of texts relating to the end of the classical world and Byzantine history

General Bibliography


To make class participation meaningful, students should come to each class having read whatever is assigned for the day. Assigned readings are whatever things are listed immediately under the date and topic, one indent space in from the left margin. Any titles, bibliographies, or links further indented, generally preceded by the advice "See also", are suggestions for further reading or research and are not required for class.

Information on bibliographical references in this syllabus:

Journal abbreviations: On this syllabus, journals are abbreviated according to the conventions of L'Année philologique (henceforth APh), a bibliographical database. There is a link on the main web page of this resource (List of Journal Abbreviations); see below.

UVM library has an online subscription to APh. To find it, choose the link Articles & More on the main library page, then Browse by Title and the letter A in the alphabet. Or use this link.

There is also a print edition of APh through 2007, shelved in Reference Z7016 .A56. Here are instructions for using the print edition, which for some things (e.g., personal names) is better than the electronic version.

If the UVM library does not have a subscription to a periodical given in a list of references, on this syllabus there will always be a reference number of seven digits, the APh accession number needed to order through Interlibrary Loan.

Office hours:  Monday 9:00-9:40, Wednesday 11:00-12:00, Friday 2:15-3:00 and by appointment

January
20  Ties that bind

22  Shamans and other extraordinary people

Herodotus selections from book 4 on people who live to the north: 4.13-16 (Aristeas), 4.32-36 (Hyperboreans and Abaris), 4.94-96 (Getae; Zalmoxis and Pythagoras); all can be found here: Herodotus Book 4
Porphyry Life of Pythagoras

Map of the World Known to Herodotus

Map of Southern Italy and Sicily

Map of the Eastern Mediterranean

See also Arthur Stanley Pease, "Some Aspects of Invisibility," HSPh 53 (1942) 1-36
E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational (1951) 135-156. BF1421 .D6
Mircea Eliade and Willard R. Trask, "Zalmoxis," HR 11 (1972) 257-302
Olga R. Aranovsky, "On the Interpretation of the 'knowledge by suffering' in Aeschylus, Agamemnon (176-183)," JIES 6 (1978) 243-262
J.P. Brown, "The Mediterranean Seer and Shamanism," ZATW 93 (1981) 374-400 [52-10582
Fritz Graf, "Orpheus. A Poet Among Men," in Interpretations of Greek Mythology (1986) 80-106. BL782 .I58 1986
G. Huxley, "Aristeas and the Cyzicene," GRBS 27 (1986) 151-155
Yulia Ustinova, "'Either a daimon, or a hero, or perhaps a God': Mythical Residents of Subterranean Chambers," Kernos 15 (2002) 267-288
25  The pax deorum, religion and Roman martial endeavors
Selections from Livy's history and Cicero De natura deorum

Map of the Roman Empire

See also Nathan Rosenstein, "War, Failure, and Aristocratic Competition," CPh 85 (1990) 255-265
Pauline Ripat, "Roman Omens, Roman Audiences, and Roman History," G&R 53 (2006) 155-174
27  Dreams and Visions
Valerius Maximus 1.7 and 1.8 (will be sent via e-mail)
Patricia Cox Miller, Dreams in Late Antiquity. Studies in the Imagination of a Culture (1994) chapter 1. PA3015.D73 M55 1994
See also J.S. Hanson, "Dreams and Visions in the Graeco-Roman World and Early Christianity," in ANRW II.23.2 (1980) 1395-1427 DG209 .T36
William V. Harris, Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity (2009). BF1078 .H2955 2009
Yelena Baraz, "Pliny's Epistolary Dreams and the Ghost of Domitian," TAPhA 142 (2012) 105-132.
29  What do people ask?
Lucian, Charon and Icaromenippus
A pagan exorcism
     Compare the Carmen Saliare
A betting person's curse tablet
February
1  The Syrian goddess
The Syrian Goddess (will be sent via e-mail)
See also P&C pp. 27-101 [on reserve]
H. Musurillo, "Pillar-climbers in the Early Church, East and West," CF 15 (1961) 115-118 [32-08414
David T.M. Frankfurter, "Stylites and Phallobates: Pillar Religion in Late Antique Syria," VChr 44 (1990) 168-198
Per Bilde, "Atargatis/Dea Syria: Hellenization of Her Cult in the Hellenistic-Roman Period?," in Religion and Religious Practice in the Seleucid Kingdom, edd. Per Bilde, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Lise Hannestad, and Jan Zahle (1990) 151-187. BL1060 .R43 1990
Lucinda Dirven, "The Author of 'De Dea Syria' and His Cultural Heritage," Numen 44 (1997) 153-179
Jas Elsner, "Describing Self in the Language of Other: Pseudo (?) Lucian at the Temple of Hierapolis," in Being Greek Under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire, ed. Simon Goldhill (2001) 123-153. DG78 B385 2001
Jane L. Lightfoot, "Sacred Eunuchism in the Cult of the Syrian Goddess," in Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond, ed. Shaun Tougher (2002) 71-86 [76-14493
Patrick J. Finglass, "Autocastration or Regicide?: Lucian, De dea syria 20," CQ 55 (2005) 629-632
3  Interacting with the gods
Read Lucian Voyage to the Lower World and Runaways at one of these sites:
The Lucian of Samosata Project
Internet Sacred Text Archive
eBooks@Adelaide
See also P&C pp. 102-167 [on reserve]
5  Ruler-cult
Ovid Metamorphoses 15.745-879 (earlier in book 15 you will see a lot about Pythagoras, if you are interested)
Pliny Panegyricus, outline of the oration and sections 1-9
Lucian Praise of the Fly
    Plus either
Keith Hopkins, "Divine Emperors or the Symbolic Unity of the Roman Empire," in Conquerors and Slaves (1977) 197-242. HT863 .H66
    or
D.L. Jones, "Christianity and the Roman Imperial Cult," in ANRW II.23.2 (1980) 1023-1054 DG209 .T36
See also (if interested) Old translation of the Apocolocyntosis or Not quite so old translation of the Apocolocyntosis
Andrew Runni Anderson, "Heracles and His Successors: A Study of a Heroic Ideal and the Recurrence of a Heroic Type," HSPh 39 (1928) 7-58
S.R.F. Price, Rituals and Power. The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor (1984)
8  Early reactions to Christianity: the first century. Pliny, Tacitus, and Suetonius
Tacitus Annals 15.40-44
Pliny to Trajan and the emperor's response: Letters Book 10 97 and 98 (other translations number those 96 and 97)
    The page this link takes you does not say Book 10, but shows at the top "Correspondence Between Pliny and the Emperor Trajan". Search or scroll down to XCVII and XCVIII for the letters assigned. If you are using a different translation, e.g., one in print, you will need to find book 10, which is the final book of the collection of Pliny's letters.
Suetonius Life of Nero section 16
Wilken chapters 1-3
See also P&C pp. 265-335 [on reserve]
S. Benko, "Pagan Criticism of Christianity During the First Two Centuries A.D.," in ANRW II.23.2 (1980) 1055-1118 DG209 .T36
R.M. Grant, "Pliny and the Christians," HThR 41 (1948) 273-274.
J.E.A. Crake, "Early Christians and Roman Law," Phoenix 19 (1965) 61-70.
Duncan Fishwick, "Pliny and the Christians," AJAH 9 (1984) 123-130. [61-03490
Gary J. Johnson, "De conspiratione delatorum. Pliny and the Christians Revisited, Latomus 47 (1988) 417-422
Brent D. Shaw, "The Myth of the Neronian Persecution," JRS 105 (2015) 73-100
10  Peregrinus Proteus and Alexander of Abonuteichos
Lucian, The Death of Peregrinus and Alexander
Roger Pack, "The 'Volatilization' of Peregrinus Proteus," AJPh 67 (1946) 334-345
     or
G. Bagnani, "Peregrinus Proteus and the Christians," Historia 4 (1955) 107-112
     or
Dana Farah Fields, "The Reflections of Satire: Lucian and Peregrinus," TAPhA 143 (2013) 213-245

     Glykon

See also Arthur Darby Nock, "Alexander of Abonuteichos," CQ 22 (1928) 160-162
D. G. Dalziel, "Alexander the Greater," G&R 5 (1936) 90-97
R.B. Branham, "The Comic as Critic, Revenging Epicurus. A Study of Lucian's Art of Comic Narrative," ClAnt 3 (1984) 143-163
Jaakko Aronen, "Dragon Cults and νυμφη δρακαινα in IGUR 974," ZPE 111 (1996) 125-132
Mark J. Edwards, "Satire and Verisimilitude. Christianity in Lucian's Peregrinus," Historia 38 (1989) 89-98
Diskin Clay, "Lucian of Samosata: Four Philosophical Lives (Nigrinus, Demonax, Peregrinus, Alexander Pseudomantis)," ANRW II.36.5 (1992) 3406-3450 DG209 .T36
Matthew W. Dickie, "Divine Epiphany in Lucian's Account of the Oracle of Alexander of Abonuteichos," ICS 29 (2004) 159-182
Jason König, "The Cynic and Christian Lives of Lucian's 'Peregrinus'," in The Limits of Ancient Biography, edd. Brian McGing and Judith Mossman (Classical Press of Wales 2006) 227-254. CT35 .L56 2006
Stephen Kent, "Narcissistic Fraud in the Ancient World: Lucian's Account of Alexander of Abonuteichos and the Cult of Glycon," AncNarr 6 (2007) 77-99
12  Philosophers
Lucian, Nigrinus and Demonax
Life of Porphyry
Life of Iamblichus
Summary of the life of Apollonius of Tyana

See also Introduction to Eunapius
John Elsner, "Hagiographic Geography: Travel and Allegory in the Life of Apollonius of Tyana," JHS 117 (1997) 22-37
Silvia Montiglio, "Wandering Philosophers in Classical Greece," JHS 120 (2000) 86-105
Verity Platt, "Virtual Visions: 'Phantasia' and the Perception of the Divine in the 'Life of Apollonius of Tyana'," in Philostratus, edd. Ewen L. Bowie and Jas Elsner (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press 2009) 131-154. [82-04141
You can read the whole Life of Apollonius of Tyana online
15  Presidents' Day holiday

17  Mithras

Ancient Sources relating to Mithras
R. Gordon, "Mithraism," in Encyclopedia of Religion2 (2005) 9.6088-6093
Saskia Roselaar, "The Cult of Mithras in Early Christian Literature: an Inventory and Interpretation," Klio 96 (2014) 183-217. [85-07585
See also Sarah Iles Johnston, "Riders in the Sky: Cavalier Gods and Theurgic Salvation in the Second Century A.D.," CPh 87 (1992) 303-321
Oliver Nicholson, "The End of Mithraism," Antiquity 69 No. 263 (1995) 358-362
Roger Beck, "The Mysteries of Mithras: A New Account of Their Genesis," JRS 88 (1998) 115-128
Carl A. P. Ruck, Mark Alwis Hoffman, and Blaise Daniel Staples, "The Brotherhood of the Warriors of Mithras," NECJ 31 (2004) 225-262 Pablo Maurette, "Porphyry and Mithraism: 'De antro nympharum' and the Controversy against the Christians," Dionysius 23 (2005) 102-112
John North, "Gender and Cult in the Roman West: Mithras, Isis, Attis," in Women and the Roman City in the Latin West, edd. Emily Hemelrijk, Greg Woolf (2013) 109-127. HQ1136 .W66 2013
19  Christian apologists
Justin Martyr Second Apology
Athenagoras Plea for the Christians
See also Kofsky chapter 1 [on reserve]
Rebecca Lyman, "The Politics of Passing: Justin Martyr's Conversion as a Problem of 'Hellenization'," in Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing, edd. Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton (2003) 36-60 [on reserve]
Justin Second Apology in Migne Patrologia Graeca
22  Early persecutions
De mortibus persecutorum 1-6
See also P&C pp. 419-492 [on reserve]
Paul Keresztes, "The Imperial Roman Government and the Christian Church I. From Nero to the Severi," in ANRW II.23.1 (1979) 247-315 DG209 .T36
For interest only: the potential effect of punitive gods on human society

24  Test 1

26  Arguments

MacMullen CRE chapter 4; Wilken chapters 4-6
See also R.P.C. Hanson, "The Christian Attitude to Pagan Religions up to the Time of Constantine the Great," in ANRW II.23.2 (1980) 910-973 DG209 .T36
A. Meredith, "Porphyry and Julian against the Christians," in ANRW II.23.2. (1980) 1119-1149, pp. 1120-1137. DG209 .T36

Some bibliography relating to the early Christian church and Rome
Some hagiographies, among other things (not all links work)

29  Third century: the great persecutions
Lellia Cracco Ruggini, "Intolerance: Equal and Less Equal in the Roman World," CPh 82 (1987) 187-205
See also Paul Keresztes, "The Imperial Roman Government and the Christian Church II. From Gallienus to the Great Persecution," in ANRW 375-386. DG209 .T36
James Boykin Rives, "The Decree of Decius and the Religion of Empire," JRS 89 (1999) 135-154
Heidi Wendt, "Ea Superstitione: Christian Martyrdom and the Religion of Freelance Experts," JTS 105 (2015) 183-202
P&C pp. 549-608 [on reserve]

Information on final projects

March
2  Diocletian, Galerius, and the last great persecution
Panegyric of 289
Some bibliography on Diocletian and the tetrarchy
4  Lactantius
De mortibus persecutorum 7-30
Brown Rise chapter 2 [on reserve]
See also Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome (2000) BR 65 .L26 D54 2000
Narrative: Gallienus to Theodosius I

Spring recess

14  Constantine's conversions

MacMullen CRE chapters 5-7
Raymond Van Dam, "The Many Conversions of the Emperor Constantine," in Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing, edd. Kenneth Mills and Anthony Grafton (2003) 127-151 [on reserve]
Richard Flower, "Visions of Constantine: review article," JRS 102 (2012) 287-305
See also P&C pp. 609-662 [on reserve]

Recent bibliography on Constantine

16  Religious politics and church historians
Lactantius De mortibus persecutorum 31-52
Eusebius Church History 9.9; Life of Constantine 26-32
A. Momigliano, "Pagan and Christian Historiography in the Fourth Century A.D.," in A. Momigliano, ed., The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (1963) 79-99 [on reserve]
Kofsky chapter 2 [on reserve]
See also G.W. Trompf, Early Christian Historiography: Narratives of Retributive Justice (2000) BR138 .T76 2000
Glenn F. Chesnut, The First Christian Histories: Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, and Evagrius (1986) BR166 .C49 1986
Margaret English Frazer, "Hades Stabbed by the Cross of Christ," Metropolitan Museum Journal 9 (1974) 153-161
18  No class: CANE meeting

21  Internal conflicts

Athanasius History of the Arians part I and part VIII
Donatist Martyr Stories pp. 25-60 [on reserve]
See also Athanasius Four Discourses against the Arians, Defence before Constantius, Defence of the Nicene Definition, Defence against the Arians
T.D. Barnes, Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire (1993) BR1720.A7 B37 1993
W.H.C. Frend, The Donatist Church: a Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa (1971) BT1370 .F7 1971
23  Julian the Apostate
Julian Letters 19-25, 32, 36, 40-41, 47, 51 (letter 19 starts on page 49; to get there, type 49 into the little box at the top of the screen opposite Page:) (or download the whole volume as a pdf)
Eunapius Life of Maximus
Eunapius Life of Chrysanthius
Wilken chapter 7
See also James J. O'Donnell. "The Demise of Paganism," Traditio 35 (1979) 45-88
A. Meredith, "Porphyry and Julian against the Christians," in ANRW II.23.2. (1980) 1119-1149, pp. 1138-1148. DG209 .T36
Brown Society pp. 83-102 [on reserve]

Recent bibliography on Julian

25  Libanius
On the Temple of Apollo at Daphne
For the Temples
MacMullen CRE chapters 8-9
See also Funeral Oration for Julian
Béatrice Caseau, "The Fate of Rural Temples in Late Antiquity and the Christianisation of the Countryside," Late Antique Archaeology 2 (2004) 103-144 (available via interlibrary loan; not listed in APh)
28  Magic and other forms of misbehavior
A.A. Barb, "The Survival of Magic Arts," in A. Momigliano, ed., The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (1963) 100-125 [on reserve]
David Potter, Prophets and Emperors (Cambridge MA 1994) 146-182
Parshia Lee-Stecum, "Dangerous Reputations: Charioteers and Magic in Fourth-Century Rome," G&R 53 (2006) 224-234
See also Daniel Ogden, Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook (2009)
D. E. Aune, "Magic in Early Christianity," in ANRW II.23.2 (1980) 1507-1557 DG209 .T36
A. B. Kolenkow, "Relationships between Miracle and Prophecy in the Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity," in ANRW II.23.2 (1980) 1470-1506 DG209 .T36
30  Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus books 15.7, 19.10, 21.1-2, 21.14-16, 22.5, 22.9-14, 23.1, 25.4, 25.10, 27.3 &7, 29.1 and, for extra entertainment, his descriptions of life at Rome: 14.6 and 28.1 & 4    Rolfe translation    Yonge translation
Shunsuke Kosaka, "The Murder of George of Cappadocia and the Violent Pagan Image in Ammianus Marcellinus," Scrinium 11 (2015) 64-77
Bibliography on Ammianus

Main page of the Ammianus Marcellinus Online Project
Christianity in Ammianus is a discussion with copious references to passages in the text, and to scholarly opinion; this is the first of three pages

April
1  Adrianople and aftermath; Theodosius
Battle of Adrianople
If you prefer, use the link given above for the Rolfe translation of Ammianus and read 31.12-13 (a little shorter, omits the obituary of Valens)
    Description of Huns and Alani may be found at the beginning of Ammianus book 31
Herbert Bloch, "The Pagan Revival in the West at the End of the Fourth Century," in A. Momigliano, ed., The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (1963) 193-218 [on reserve]
Brown Rise chapter 1 [on reserve]
See also Noel Lenski, "Initium mali Romano imperio: Contemporary Reactions to the Battle of Adrianople," TAPhA 127 (1997) 129-168
Michael Kulikowski, "Coded Polemic in Ammianus Book 31 and the Date and Place of its Composition," JRS 102 (2012) 79-102

Bibliography on Valentinian and his family

4  Symmachus and Ambrose
Symmachus On the Altar of Victory; Ambrose's reply: Ep. 17
P. Courcelle, "Anti-Christian Arguments and Christian Platonism," in A. Momigliano, ed., The Conflict between Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century (1963) 151-192 [on reserve; note that the text ends near the top of p.166 and the remaining pages contain notes and citations of texts]
A. V. Van Stekelenburg, "Stating the Case of Paganism in 384 AD: Argumentation in the Third Relation of Symmachus," Akroterion 38 (1993) 39-45 [64-05338

Diptych of the Symmachi

Himself

See also H.A. Pohlsander, "Victory: The Story of a Statue," Historia 18 (1969) 588-597
Michele Renee Salzman, "Reflections on Symmachus' Idea of Tradition," Historia 38 (1989) 348-364
Willy Evenepoel, "Ambrose vs. Symmachus: Christians and Pagans in AD 384," AncSoc 29 (1998-1999) 283-306 [70-12154
Charles W. Hedrick, History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity (2000) CN535 .H43 2000
Test 2

8  No class: Latin Day

11  Religious legislation: non-Christians and heretics

Codex Theodosianus books IX.5-7, 15-16, 39-40 and XVI.1, 7-8, 10
Scott Bradbury, "Constantine and the Problem of Anti-Pagan Legislation in the Fourth Century," CPh 89 (1994) 120-139
Michele Renee Salzman, "Superstitio in the Codex Theodosianus and the Persecution of Pagans," VChr 41 (1987) 172-188
Karl Leo Noethlichs, "Revolution from the Top? 'Orthodoxy' and the Persecution of Heretics in Imperial Legislation from Constantine to Justinian," in Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, edd. Clifford Ando and Jörg Rüpke (Stuttgart 2006) 115-125 [77-13857
See also A. Ehrhardt, "The First Two Years of the Emperor Theodosius I," JEH 15 (1964) 1-17
Michele Renee Salzman, "The Evidence for the Conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity in Book 16 of the 'Theodosian Code'," Historia 42 (1993) 362-378
R.M. Errington, "Christian Accounts of the Religious Legislation of Theodosius I," Klio 79 (1997) 398-443 [68-09706
R.M. Errington, "Church and State in the First Years of Theodosius I," Chiron 27 (1997) 21-72 [68-09707
T.D. Barnes, "From Toleration to Repression: the Evolution of Constantine's Religious Policies," SCI 21 (2002) 189-207 [73-11644
Dorothea Baudy, "Prohibitions of Religion in Antiquity," in Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, edd. Clifford Ando and Jörg Rüpke (Stuttgart 2006) 100-114 [77-13320a

On Priscillian and his followers: H. Chadwick, "Priscillian of Avila. Occult and Charisma in the Ancient Church," in Studia Patristica, XV (1984) 3-12. BR41 .I57
Harry O. Maier, "Religious Dissent, Heresy and Households in Late Antiquity," VChr 49 (1995) 49-63
Eszter Spät. "The 'Commonitorium' of Orosius on the Teachings of the Priscillianists," AAntHung 38 (1998) 357-379 [69-03175
Andrew S. Jacobs, "The Disorder of Books: Priscillian's Canonical Defense of Apocrypha," HThR 93 (2000) 135-159

Bibliography on Theodosius and his successors

13  Extirpating the opposition
MacMullen CRE chapters 10-11
R.O.Edbrooke, Jr., "The Visit of Constantius II to Rome in 357 and Its Effect on the Pagan Senatorial Aristocracy" AJPh 97 (1976) 40-61
J.M. Lieu, "The Race of the God-Fearers," JThS 46 (1995) 483-501
Clifford Ando, "Pagan Apologetics and Christian Intolerance in the Ages of Themistius and Augustine," JECS 4 (1996) 171-207
For the curious, The Life of Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza
15  Saint Martin of Tours
Sulpicius Severus Life of St. Martin
Brown Society pp. 222-250 [on reserve]
Église Sainte-Libaire at Grand, Vosges
18  Hypatia
J.M. Rist, "Hypatia," Phoenix 19 (1965) 214-225
Mary Ellen Waithe, "Finding Bits and Pieces of Hypatia," in Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers, ed. Linda Lopez McAlister (1996) 4-15. B105.W6 H97 1996
Silvia Ronchey, "Hypatia the Intellectual," in Roman Women, ed. Augusto Fraschetti (2001) 160-189. HQ1136 .R6613 2001
Edward Jay Watts, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (2006) 187-203. LA75 .W38 2006
See also Edward J. Watts, "The Murder of Hypatia: Acceptable or Unacceptable Violence?", in Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, ed. Harold A. Drake (2006) 333-342
Glen W. Bowersock, "'Parabalani': a Terrorist Charity in Late Antiquity," Anabases 12 (2010) 45-54

Hypatia in more modern publications:
In an article on ancient Alexandria
and one on Hypatia herself

And now she has a planet named after her
20  Early fifth century in the west
Rutilius Namatianus De reditu suo
D. Jones, "The Sack of Rome," HT 20 (1970) 603-609
Brown Rise chapter 3 [on reserve]
See also the review article, Peter Van Nuffelen, "Not Much Happened: 410 and All That," JRS 105 (2015) 322-329
Bibliography on Rutilius Namatianus, and on Romanitas
22  Augustine
Excerpts from The City of God in the Medieval Sourcebook
L.C. Ferrari, "Background to Augustine's City of God," CJ 67 (1972) 198-208
Theodore S. De Bruyn, "Ambivalence Within a 'Totalizing Discourse': Augustine's Sermons on the Sack of Rome," JECS 1 (1993) 405-421
Dennis Trout, "Re-textualizing Lucretia: Cultural Subversion in the City of God," JECS 2 (1994) 53-70
Andrew R. Murphy, "Augustine and the Rhetoric of Roman Decline," HPTh 26 (2005) 586-606
The City of God online in two places:
  New Advent
  CCEL
Augustine of Hippo site by James O'Donnell
Short bibliography on Augustine
25  Fifth century: Proclus and Damascius
Proclus Hymns
Damascius Philosophical History 5-38
Polymnia Athanassiadi, "Persecution and Response in late Paganism: The Evidence of Damascius," JHS 113 (1993) 1-29
27  Zosimus gets even
Zosimus book 2
Walter Goffart, "Zosimus, the First Historian of Rome's Fall," AHR 76 (1971) 412-441
29  Justinian closes the schools
K.W. Harl, "Sacrifice and Pagan Belief in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Byzantium," P&P 128 (1990) 7-27
May
2  Heroes and saints
Brown Cult chapters 3 and 4 [on reserve]
4  Review
Projects due
Final examination 1:30-4:15

The grades for this class are due Monday 9 May. If for any reason a student is unable to hand in the project on time or write the final exam at the scheduled time and place, that person needs to apply to the dean's office to ask for an incomplete.

Grade will be based upon:
Two tests (25% each)
Student projects (25%)
Final examination (25%)


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