Apex omnium: religion in the Res gestae of Ammianus 9780520058583

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The Transformation of the Classical Heritage

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: ~ be a I Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity, by Sabine G. MacCormack Il Synesius of Cyrene: Philosopher-Bishop, by Jay Alan Bregman Il Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late

Antiquity, by Kenneth G. Holum IV John Chrysostom and the Jews; Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century, by Robert L. Wilken V_ Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man, by Patricia Cox VI Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, by

Philip Rousseau |

VIL Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by

A. P. Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein VUE Leadership and Community: The Transformation of Late Antique Gaul,

by Raymond Van Dam IX Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, by Robert Lamberton

X Procopius and the Sixth Century, by Averil Cameron XI Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity,

by Robert A. Kaster XII Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, 180-275 a.p., by Kenneth W. Harl

XU Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, Introduced and Translated by | Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey XIV Body, Soul, and Spiritual Progress in Gregory the Great, by Carole E. Straw XV Apex Omnium: Religion in the Res gestae of Ammianus, by R. L. Rike

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