Classics/Religion 196 |
Pagans and Christians |
Spring 2016 |
Professor Barbara Saylor Rodgers |
MWF 1:10-2:00 |
481 Main, Room 301 (office) |
Lafayette L200 |
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
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 AdventLacus 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
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.
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 425 The pax deorum, religion and Roman martial endeavors
Porphyry Life of PythagorasMap 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
Selections from Livy's history and Cicero De natura deorum27 Dreams and VisionsSee 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
Valerius Maximus 1.7 and 1.8 (will be sent via e-mail)29 What do people ask?
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.
Lucian, Charon and IcaromenippusFebruary
A pagan exorcism
Compare the Carmen Saliare
A betting person's curse tablet
The Syrian Goddess (will be sent via e-mail)3 Interacting with the gods
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
Read Lucian Voyage to the Lower World and Runaways at one of these sites:5 Ruler-cult
The Lucian of Samosata Project
Internet Sacred Text Archive
eBooks@AdelaideSee also P&C pp. 102-167 [on reserve]
Ovid Metamorphoses 15.745-879 (earlier in book 15 you will see a lot about Pythagoras, if you are interested)8 Early reactions to Christianity: the first century. Pliny, Tacitus, and Suetonius
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 .T36See 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)
Tacitus Annals 15.40-4410 Peregrinus Proteus and Alexander of Abonuteichos
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 1-3See 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
Lucian, The Death of Peregrinus and Alexander12 Philosophers
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) 213-245See 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
Lucian, Nigrinus and Demonax15 Presidents' Day holiday
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
17 Mithras
Ancient Sources relating to Mithras19 Christian apologists
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. [85-07585See 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
Justin Martyr Second Apology22 Early persecutions
Athenagoras Plea for the ChristiansSee 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
De mortibus persecutorum 1-6For interest only: the potential effect of punitive gods on human societySee 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
24 Test 1
26 Arguments
MacMullen CRE chapter 4; Wilken chapters 4-629 Third century: the great persecutions
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 .T36Some bibliography relating to the early Christian church and Rome
Some hagiographies, among other things (not all links work)
Lellia Cracco Ruggini, "Intolerance: Equal and Less Equal in the Roman World," CPh 82 (1987) 187-205See 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]
Panegyric of 2894 LactantiusSome bibliography on Diocletian and the tetrarchy
De mortibus persecutorum 7-30Narrative: Gallienus to Theodosius I
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
Spring recess
14 Constantine's conversions
MacMullen CRE chapters 5-716 Religious politics and church historians
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) 287-305See also P&C pp. 609-662 [on reserve]Recent bibliography on Constantine
Lactantius De mortibus persecutorum 31-5218 No class: CANE meeting
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
21 Internal conflicts
Athanasius History of the Arians part I and part VIII23 Julian the Apostate
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
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)25 Libanius
Eunapius Life of Maximus
Eunapius Life of Chrysanthius
Wilken chapter 7See 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
On the Temple of Apollo at Daphne28 Magic and other forms of misbehavior
For the Temples
MacMullen CRE chapters 8-9See 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)
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]30 Ammianus Marcellinus
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) 224-234See 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
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 translationApril
Shunsuke Kosaka, "The Murder of George of Cappadocia and the Violent Pagan Image in Ammianus Marcellinus," Scrinium 11 (2015) 64-77Bibliography on AmmianusMain 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
Battle of Adrianople4 Symmachus and Ambrose
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
Symmachus On the Altar of Victory; Ambrose's reply: Ep. 176 Test 2
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 [64-05338See 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
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, 1013 Extirpating the opposition
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 [77-13857See 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 [77-13320aOn 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
MacMullen CRE chapters 10-1115 Saint Martin of Tours
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) 171-207For the curious, The Life of Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza
Sulpicius Severus Life of St. Martin18 Hypatia
Brown Society pp. 222-250 [on reserve]Église Sainte-Libaire at Grand, Vosges
J.M. Rist, "Hypatia," Phoenix 19 (1965) 214-22520 Early fifth century in the west
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 2006See 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) 45-54Hypatia in more modern publications:
In an article on ancient Alexandria
and one on Hypatia herselfAnd now she has a planet named after her
Rutilius Namatianus De reditu suo22 Augustine
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) 322-329Bibliography on Rutilius Namatianus, and on Romanitas
Excerpts from The City of God in the Medieval Sourcebook25 Fifth century: Proclus and Damascius
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
Proclus Hymns27 Zosimus gets even
Damascius Philosophical History 5-38
Polymnia Athanassiadi, "Persecution and Response in late Paganism: The Evidence of Damascius," JHS 113 (1993) 1-29
Zosimus book 229 Justinian closes the schools
Walter Goffart, "Zosimus, the First Historian of Rome's Fall," AHR 76 (1971) 412-441
K.W. Harl, "Sacrifice and Pagan Belief in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Byzantium," P&P 128 (1990) 7-27May
Brown Cult chapters 3 and 4 [on reserve]4 Review
Projects due6 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.
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