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A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II 408-450

by: Millar, F.

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Category: Greco-Roman History
Code: 2684
ISBN-13: 9780520253919 / 978-0-520-25391-9
ISBN-10: 0520253914 / 0-520-25391-4
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 2007
Publication Place: Berkeley
Binding: Paper
Pages: 279
Book Condition: New
Comments: First Published 2006

 

 

In the first half of the fifth century, the Latin-speaking part of the Roman Empire suffered vast losses of territory to barbarian invaders. But in the Greek-speaking half of the Eastern Mediterranean, with its capital at Constantinople, there was a stable and successful system, using Latin as its official language, but communicating with its subjects in Greek. This book takes an inside look at how this system worked in the long reign of the pious Christian Emperor Theodosius II (408-50), and analyzes its largely successful defense of its frontiers, its internal coherence, and its relations with its subjects, with a flow of demands and suggestions traveling up the hierarchy to the Emperor, and a long series of laws, often set out in elaborately self-justificatory detail, addressed by the Emperor, through his officials, to the people. Above all, this book focuses on the Imperial mission to promote the unity of the Church, the State?s involvement in intensely-debated doctrinal questions, and the calling by the Emperor of two major Church Councils at Ephesus, in 431 and 449. Between the Law codes and the acts of the Church Councils, the material illustrating the working of government and the involvement of State and church, is incomparably richer, more detailed, and more vivid than for any previous period.

Preface xiii
Abbreviations xix
Ancient Sources: Texts, Editions, and Translations xxiii
I. ROMAN AND GREEK: STATE AND SUBJECT
1. Introduction: Roman and Greek
1
2. Imperial Legislation
7
3. Theodosius's Greek Empire
13
4. Latin and Greek
20
5. The Greek City, and Greek Literary Culture
25
6. Letters and the Rhetoric of Persuasion
34
II. SECURITY AND INSECURITY
1. Introduction
39
2. The Military Structure
45
3. Constantinople and the West
51
4. Border Wars in Libya and Egypt
59
5. The Eastern Frontier: Sasanids and Saracens
66
6. The Danube Frontier and the Huns
76
III. INTEGRATION AND DIVERSITY
1. Latin in Government
84
2. Greek as the Lingua Franca
93
3. Greek and Other Languages at the Church Councils
97
4. The Public Role and Status of Syriac in the Fifth-Century Church
107
5. The Empire, the Church, and Paganism
116
6. Samaritans and Jews
123
IV. STATE AND CHURCH: CIVIL ADMINISTRATION, ECCLESIASTICAL HIERARCHY, AND SPIRITUAL POWER
1. Religious Conflicts and Spiritual Authority
130
2. State and Church: Regional Structures of Hierarchy and Authority
133
3. State and Church: Contested Borders
140
4. Theodosius and Heresy, 408-430
149
5. The Nestorian Controversy and the Two Councils of Ephesus, 431-450
157
V. STATE POWER AND MORAL DEFIANCE: NESTORIUS AND IRENAEUS
1. Introduction: Sources and Perspectives
168
2. Episcopal Persuasion and the Imperial Will
171
3. Nestorius: Return to Monastic Life, Condemnation and Exile, 431-436
174
4. Renewed Controversy, Imperial Condemnation, and Popular Reaction, 448-449
182
VI. PERSUASION, INFLUENCE, AND POWER
1. Structures and Persons
192
2. The Routine of Public Persuasion: The Suggestio
207
3. Identifying Powerful intermediaries
214
4. Approaching the Emperor
224
Appendix A. The Acta of the Fifth-Century Councils: A Brief Guide for Historians 235
Appendix B. Verbatim Reports of Proceedings from the Reign of Theodosius II 249
Illustrations 261
IA. The Theodosian Empire: Civil Government, Northern Half
IB. The Theodosian Empire: Civil Government, Southern Half
II. The Syriac Codex of 411, written in Edessa
III. Autograph Greeting by Theodosius on a Letter to an Official
IV. Church Built at Dar Qita, Syria, in
418
V. Statue of the Governor Oecumenius from Aphrodisias
VI. Reconstruction of the Statue of the Governor Oecumenius with its Inscribed Base
VII. The Structure of the Army of Theodosius's Empire
VIII. Legionary Dispositions on the Danube Frontier
IX. Legionary Dispositions on the Eastern Frontier
X. Cities in the Balkan and Danubian Region whose Bishops attended one or more of the Fifth-Century Church Councils
XI. The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in the Northern Part of the Secular Diocese of Oriens
Indexes 273
 

 
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A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II 408-450

by: Millar, F.

  • ISBN-13: 9780520253919 / 978-0-520-25391-9
  • ISBN-03: 0520253914 / 0-520-25391-4
  • University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007

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