Eberhard Sauer, Tony J. Wilkinson, Hamid Omrani Rekavandi & Jabrael Nokandeh (ed.). Persia's imperial power in Late Antiquity: the Great Wall of Gorgan and the frontier landscapes of Sasanian Iran (British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monographs 2). xvi+712 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. 2013. Oxford & Oakville (CT): Oxbow; 978-1-84217-519-4 hardback £ 85.

This final chapter demonstrates the importance of contextualizing epigrams into the sociohistorical circumstances of their era if we want to achieve a deeper comprehension of the transformations that various motifs undergo through space and time. The chapter analyses a cluster of epigrams on imperial gardens that date from the first to the seventh century CE, and shows how these poems reflect diverse views about imperial power, aesthetics, pagan culture, and Christianity. The chapter discusses first an epigram from the Neronian era, then moves forward to late antiquity to consider a sequence of garden epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian (sixth century CE). The chapter concludes with an explicitly Christian garden epigram from the reign of the Emperor Heraclius (seventh century CE).

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Unidade e diversidade na Antiguidade Tardia: a atuação do imperador Teodósio II na controvérsia em torno da natureza do corpo de Cristo entre Cirilo de Alexandria e Nestório de Constantinopla (428-450 d.C.) * Unity and diversity in the Late Antiquity

História e Cultura ◽

10.18223/hiscult.v2i1.831 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 205

Author(s):

DANIEL DE FIGUEIREDO

Keyword(s):

Late Antiquity ◽

Cyril Of Alexandria ◽

Imperial Power ◽

Nestorius Of Constantinople ◽

Theological Conflict ◽

The Relationship

Resumo: Esse artigo analisa a atuação do imperador Teodósio II (408-450) no conflito teológico que emergiu durante o seu governo e ficou conhecido pela historiografia como Controvérsia Nestoriana. Tal conflito foi protagonizado pelos bispos Cirilo de Alexandria e Nestório de Constantinopla, que divergiam acerca do relacionamento estabelecido entre as naturezas divina e humana do Cristo encarnado. Uma vez que formulações teológicas dessa natureza, na Antiguidade Tardia, serviam de suporte para formulações ideológicas de sustentação e unidade do poder imperial, pretendemos destacar o papel de centralidade do imperador como mediador desse conflito.Palavras-chave: Antiguidade Tardia – Conflito político-religioso-administrativo – Controvérsia Nestoriana. Abstract: This article analyzes the performance of the Emperor Theodosius II (408-450) at the theological conflict that emerged during his government and got notorious by historiography as Nestorian Controversy. Such a conflict was led by the bishops Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius of Constantinople, who diverged about the relationship established between the divine and human natures of the incarnate Christ. Since theological formulations of such nature were used in Late Antiquity to support ideological formulations of sustaining and unity of the imperial power, we aim to highlight the role of centrality of the Emperor as a mediator in this conflict.Keywords: Late Antiquity – Political, religious and administrative Conflict – Nestorian Controversy.

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La controversia del altar de Victoria

STUDIUM ◽

10.26754/ojs_studium/stud.2016223017 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 13-35

Author(s):

Ignacio Jesús Álvarez Soria

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Late Antiquity ◽

Religious Tolerance ◽

Imperial Power

El artículo trata sobre las ideas de tolerancia, igualdad, legitimidad y libertad religiosa en la Tardoantigüedad, tomando como ejemplo la discusión surgida en torno al altar de Victoria, que evidencia también las relaciones de las autoridades paganas y cristianas con el poder imperial. A través de esta discusión podremos ver los argumentos y peticiones utilizados por ambas partes, que en muchas ocasiones coinciden con los discursos que tenían antes de que cambiasen las tornas y el cristianismo se convirtiese en una religión hegemónica en el Imperio Romano. The article is about the ideas of religious tolerance, equality, legitimacy and liberty in the Late Antiquity with the example of the controversy of Victoria’s altar. This controversy also evinces the connection of Pagan and Christian authorities with the imperial power. Through this dispute, we can know the arguments and requests used by both parties; which usually agree with the reasons that the contrary had before Christianity became the dominant religion in the Roman Empire. Symmachus, Ambrosius, Empire, religion, tolerance, Late Antiquity

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