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Elizabeth DePalma Digeser is Associate Professor of Roman History and Late Antiquity at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome (Ithaca, 2000). She has published research in The Journal of Early Christian Studies, The Journal of Roman Studies, Classical Philology, The Journal of Theological Studies,andHermes. RobertM.FrakesisProfessorofHistoryatClarionUniversity.Heisthe author of Contra Potentium Iniurias: The Defensor Civitatis and Late Roman Justice (Munich, 2001) and articles in scholarly journals such as Byzantion, ClassicalJournal,HarvardTheologicalReview,Historia,andZeitschriftderSavigny- StiftungfürRechtsgeschichte(RomanistischeAbteilung). JustinStephensisinhissecondyearasanAssistantProfessorofHistory atMetropolitanStateCollegeofDenver,whereheteachescoursesinboth AncientGreeceandRome.Hisresearchexplorestherelationshipbetween the ChristianChurchand the Roman Empire inthe fourthand early fifth centuries. P1:PHB Trim:138mm×216mm Top:1in Gutter:1in IBBK035-FM IBBK035-Serieslist-Demis ISBN:9781848852365 June11,2010 21:44 LIBRARY OF CLASSICAL STUDIES SeriesISBN:9781848852365 Seewww.ibtauris.com/LCSforafulllistoftitles 1.WritingAncientHistory:An 2.TheRhetoricofPowerinLate IntroductiontoClassical Antiquity:ReligionandPoliticsin Historiography Byzantium,EuropeandtheEarly LukePitcher IslamicWorld 9781845119577 ElizabethDePalmaDigeser, RobertM.Frakes,Justin Stephens 9781848854093 ii THE RHETORIC OF POWER IN LATE ANTIQUITY Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World Edited by Robert M. Frakes, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser & Justin Stephens TAURIS ACADEMIC STUDIES animprintof I.B.TaurisPublishers LONDON • NEW YORK Publishedin2010byTaurisAcademicStudies AnimprintofI.B.Tauris&CoLtd 6SalemRoad,LondonW24BU 175FifthAvenue,NewYorkNY10010 www.ibtauris.com DistributedintheUnitedStatesandCanada ExclusivelybyPalgraveMacmillan 175FifthAvenue,NewYorkNY10010 Copyright©ElizabethDePalmaDigeser,RobertM.Frakes,JustinStephens TherightofElizabethDePalmaDigeser,RobertM.FrakesandJustinStephenstobe identifiedastheeditorsofthisworkhasbeenassertedbytheauthorinaccordancewiththe Copyright,DesignsandPatentAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,oranypartthereof, maynotbereproduced,storedinorintroducedintoaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inany formorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise,without thepriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisher. LibraryofClassicalStudies2 ISBN9781848854093 AfullCIPrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary AfullCIPrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress LibraryofCongresscatalogcard:available PrintedandboundinIndiabyThomsonPress(India) Camera-readycopyeditedandsuppliedbytheauthor For Harold Allen Drake CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix Foreword xi JohnW.I.Lee Introduction 1 RobertM.Frakes,ElizabethDePalmaDigeser,andJustinStephens PartI:TheImageofPoliticalandEpiscopalAuthority 1 TheAdventusofJulianatSirmium:TheLiteraryConstructionof HistoricalRealityinAmmianusMarcellinus 13 EricFournier 2 ButhericandtheCharioteer 47 RobertM.Frakes 3 CalminganAngryEnemy:Attila,LeoI,andtheDiplomacyof Ambiguity,452 63 MichaelBlodgett 4 “Patres Orphanorum”: Ambrose of Milan and the Construction oftheRoleoftheBishop 75 MichaelProulx PartII:TheFunctionofRomanTraditioninEmergentSocieties 5 “Your Brothers, the Romans”: Early Islamic History as a Turn oftheClassicalPageinEarlyMuslimThoughtandLiterature 101 ThomasSizgorich 6 SpiritualLandscapes:TheLateAntiqueDesertinIreland 125 JimTschenEmmons viii THERHETORICOFPOWERINLATEANTIQUITY PartIII:CivicElitesintheByzantineEast 7 TheWorldofSt.DanieltheStylite:Rhetoric,Religio,and RelationshipsintheLifeofthePillarSaint 147 MiriamRaubVivian 8 TwoPhilosophersfromGaza 167 TimotheosofGazaandtheGrandeCacciaofPiazzaArmerina FrankJ.Frost 168 ChoriciusofGaza,OrationXIII:ReligionandStateintheAge ofJustinian 172 RobertaMazza PartIV:AddressingChallengestoSacredTextsandRites 9 OrigenontheLimes:RhetoricandthePolarizationofIdentityin theLateThirdCentury 197 ElizabethDePalmaDigeser 10 AStrangeConsensus:DaemonologicalDiscourseinOrigen, Porphyry,andIamblichus 219 HeidiMarx-Wolf 11 Torah,Torah,Torah:TheAuthorshipofthePentateuchin AncientandEarlyModernTimes 241 PaulSonnino Conclusion 277 ElizabethDePalmaDigeser&RobertM.Frakes ListofContributors 281 Index 283 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The co-editors would like to thank Jenna Steventon of I.B.Tauris Publishers for her support of this book and Amanda Clark Frost for volunteeringhercopy-editingskills.

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Elizabeth DePalma Digeser is Associate Professor of Roman History and Late Antiquity at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome (Ithaca, 2000). She has published research in The Journal of Early Christian Studies, The Journal of Roman Studies, Classical Philology, The Journal of Theological Studies,andHermes. RobertM.FrakesisProfessorofHistoryatClarionUniversity.Heisthe author of Contra Potentium Iniurias: The Defensor Civitatis and Late Roman Justice (Munich, 2001) and articles in scholarly journals such as Byzantion, ClassicalJournal,HarvardTheologicalReview,Historia,andZeitschriftderSavigny- StiftungfürRechtsgeschichte(RomanistischeAbteilung). JustinStephensisinhissecondyearasanAssistantProfessorofHistory atMetropolitanStateCollegeofDenver,whereheteachescoursesinboth AncientGreeceandRome.Hisresearchexplorestherelationshipbetween the ChristianChurchand the Roman Empire inthe fourthand early fifth centuries. P1:PHB Trim:138mm×216mm Top:1in Gutter:1in IBBK035-FM IBBK035-Serieslist-Demis ISBN:9781848852365 June11,2010 21:44 LIBRARY OF CLASSICAL STUDIES SeriesISBN:9781848852365 Seewww.ibtauris.com/LCSforafulllistoftitles 1.WritingAncientHistory:An 2.TheRhetoricofPowerinLate IntroductiontoClassical Antiquity:ReligionandPoliticsin Historiography Byzantium,EuropeandtheEarly LukePitcher IslamicWorld 9781845119577 ElizabethDePalmaDigeser, RobertM.Frakes,Justin Stephens 9781848854093 ii THE RHETORIC OF POWER IN LATE ANTIQUITY Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World Edited by Robert M. Frakes, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser & Justin Stephens TAURIS ACADEMIC STUDIES animprintof I.B.TaurisPublishers LONDON • NEW YORK Publishedin2010byTaurisAcademicStudies AnimprintofI.B.Tauris&CoLtd 6SalemRoad,LondonW24BU 175FifthAvenue,NewYorkNY10010 www.ibtauris.com DistributedintheUnitedStatesandCanada ExclusivelybyPalgraveMacmillan 175FifthAvenue,NewYorkNY10010 Copyright©ElizabethDePalmaDigeser,RobertM.Frakes,JustinStephens TherightofElizabethDePalmaDigeser,RobertM.FrakesandJustinStephenstobe identifiedastheeditorsofthisworkhasbeenassertedbytheauthorinaccordancewiththe Copyright,DesignsandPatentAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,oranypartthereof, maynotbereproduced,storedinorintroducedintoaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inany formorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise,without thepriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisher. LibraryofClassicalStudies2 ISBN9781848854093 AfullCIPrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary AfullCIPrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress LibraryofCongresscatalogcard:available PrintedandboundinIndiabyThomsonPress(India) Camera-readycopyeditedandsuppliedbytheauthor For Harold Allen Drake CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix Foreword xi JohnW.I.Lee Introduction 1 RobertM.Frakes,ElizabethDePalmaDigeser,andJustinStephens PartI:TheImageofPoliticalandEpiscopalAuthority 1 TheAdventusofJulianatSirmium:TheLiteraryConstructionof HistoricalRealityinAmmianusMarcellinus 13 EricFournier 2 ButhericandtheCharioteer 47 RobertM.Frakes 3 CalminganAngryEnemy:Attila,LeoI,andtheDiplomacyof Ambiguity,452 63 MichaelBlodgett 4 “Patres Orphanorum”: Ambrose of Milan and the Construction oftheRoleoftheBishop 75 MichaelProulx PartII:TheFunctionofRomanTraditioninEmergentSocieties 5 “Your Brothers, the Romans”: Early Islamic History as a Turn oftheClassicalPageinEarlyMuslimThoughtandLiterature 101 ThomasSizgorich 6 SpiritualLandscapes:TheLateAntiqueDesertinIreland 125 JimTschenEmmons viii THERHETORICOFPOWERINLATEANTIQUITY PartIII:CivicElitesintheByzantineEast 7 TheWorldofSt.DanieltheStylite:Rhetoric,Religio,and RelationshipsintheLifeofthePillarSaint 147 MiriamRaubVivian 8 TwoPhilosophersfromGaza 167 TimotheosofGazaandtheGrandeCacciaofPiazzaArmerina FrankJ.Frost 168 ChoriciusofGaza,OrationXIII:ReligionandStateintheAge ofJustinian 172 RobertaMazza PartIV:AddressingChallengestoSacredTextsandRites 9 OrigenontheLimes:RhetoricandthePolarizationofIdentityin theLateThirdCentury 197 ElizabethDePalmaDigeser 10 AStrangeConsensus:DaemonologicalDiscourseinOrigen, Porphyry,andIamblichus 219 HeidiMarx-Wolf 11 Torah,Torah,Torah:TheAuthorshipofthePentateuchin AncientandEarlyModernTimes 241 PaulSonnino Conclusion 277 ElizabethDePalmaDigeser&RobertM.Frakes ListofContributors 281 Index 283 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The co-editors would like to thank Jenna Steventon of I.B.Tauris Publishers for her support of this book and Amanda Clark Frost for volunteeringhercopy-editingskills.

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