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BEING CHRISTIAN IN LATE ANTIQUITY Being Christian in Late Antiquity A Festschrift for Gillian Clark Edited by CAROL HARRISON, CAROLINE HUMFRESS, AND ISABELLA SANDWELL 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries #OxfordUniversityPress2014 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2014 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2013940790 ISBN 978–0–19–965603–5 Asprintedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. Preface ThiscollectedvolumehonoursGillianClark’scontributiontothestudyoflate antiquity and early Christianity by exploring a central tenet of her own scholarship: that in this period, what it was to ‘be Christian’ was under constantconstructionandnegotiation.Thisconstantconstructionandnego- tiation, moreover, was—is—carried out in relation to the existing concepts, categories, and social structures of the ancient world. Part I, Being Christian throughReading,Writing,andHearing,explorestherolesthatliterarygenre, writing,reading,hearing,andtheliteratureofthepastplayedintheformation of what it meant to be Christian. Was there something inherently literary about being Christian in late antiquity? Part II, Being Christian in Commu- nity, considers how late antique Christians sought to create and maintain Christian communities and how they related those communities to existing power structures and to existing ways of defining and organizing human societies.PartIII,TheParticularitiesofBeingChristian,exploreswhatitwas tobeChristianfromanumberofdifferentviewpointsormodesofrepresenta- tion, each of which raises questions about certain kinds of ‘particularity’ (for examplegender,location,education,andculture).Readcollectively,theessays inthisvolumeexplorewhatitwasto‘beChristian’frommultipleviewpoints, exploringtheparticularityoflivedrealities,understoodwithinconcretetimes and places, as well as the seemingly timeless literary constructions of Chris- tianitiesthatthemodernworldhasinheritedfromthispast. The editors would like to express their gratitude to Tom Perridge and ElizabethRobottomatOxfordUniversityPressforalltheirhelpandsupport inbringingthisFestschrifttocompletion. Contents NotesonContributors ix Introduction:TheDiscoursesofGillianClark 1 AverilCameron PartI BeingChristianthroughReading,Writing,andHearing 1. WhyDon’tJewsWriteBiography? 13 SimonGoldhill 2. TheMaccabeanMotherbetweenPagans,Jews,andChristians 39 TessaRajak 3. OntheStatusofBooksinEarlyChristianity 57 GuyG.Stroumsa 4. AnInextinguishableMemory:‘Pagan’PastandPresence inEarlyChristianWriting 74 JosefLössl 5. PlayingBall:AugustineandPlutarchonCapturingWisdom 90 CarolHarrison PartII BeingChristianinCommunity 6. Fiunt,nonnascunturChristiani:Conversion,Community, andChristianIdentityinLateAntiquity 109 AndrewLouth 7. JulianandtheChristianProfessors 120 NeilMcLynn 8. TheCityofAugustine:OntheInterpretationofCivitas 139 CatherineConybeare 9. ChristianityandAuthorityinLateAntiquity:TheTransformation oftheConceptofAuctoritas 156 KarlaPollmann 10. ChurchCouncilsandLocalAuthority:TheDevelopmentof GallicLibricanonumduringLateAntiquity 175 RalphW.Mathisen viii Contents PartIII TheParticularitiesofBeingChristian 11. TheEmpresses’Tale,ad300–360 197 JillHarries 12. ‘BeingFemale’:VerseCommemorationatthe CoemeteriumS.Agnetis(ViaNomentana) 215 DennisTrout 13. Self-PortraitasaLandscape:AusoniusandHisHerediolum 235 OliverNicholson 14. FashionsforVarroinLateAntiquityandChristianWays withBooks 253 MarkVessey 15. TheImageofaChristianMonkinNorthernSyria: SymeonStylitestheYounger 278 FergusMillar Index 297 Notes on Contributors Averil Cameron was warden of Keble College, Oxford until 2010, and was previously at King’s College, London where she was the first director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies. She is the author of many books and essays on late antiquity and Byzantium and chairs the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.HermostrecentbooksareTheByzantines(Wiley-Blackwell,2006), a revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean in Late Antiquity, AD 395–700(Routledge,2011),andaneditedvolumeonLateAntiquityontheEve ofIslam(Ashgate,2013).Sheiscurrentlyworkingonthedialogueforminlate antiquityandByzantium. CatherineConybeareisProfessorofClassicsatBrynMawrCollegewhereshe also serves as director of the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art. Her publications include Paulinus Noster and The Irrational Augustine, both from Oxford University Press. She is currently working on The Laughter of Sarah, which examines the place of delight in the Judeo- Christianinterpretativetradition. Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University, Fellow of King’s College, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, dir- ector of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, and director of the Cam- bridge Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. He has published on many aspects of Greek literature and has further interests in Jewish Studies and in Victorian culture. His books have been translated into eightlanguagesandheiswellknownasalecturerandbroadcasteraroundthe world. Jill Harries is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Sidonius Apollinaris and the Fall of Rome (Oxford University Press, 1994); Law and Empire in Late Antiquity(Cambridge Uni- versityPress,1999);CiceroandtheJurists(Duckworth,2006);LawandCrime intheRomanWorld(CambridgeUniversityPress,2007);andImperialRome AD 284 to 363: The New Empire (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). She is alsoco-editorwithIanWoodofacollectionofessaysonTheTheodosianCode (Duckworth,1993). CarolHarrisonisProfessoroftheHistoryandTheologyoftheLatinWestin the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. She has published widely on Augustine’s theology and its context, including, with Oxford University Press: Beauty and Revelation in the Thought of Saint
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