A political-culture case from late antiquity: the emperor julian and his concept of education - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v32i1.9488

Authors

  • Margarida Maria de Carvalho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v32i1.9488

Keywords:

politico-religious conflict, late antiquity author, political culture dimension, church priests, christian logos, greek logos

Abstract

In this article, I propose to appraise Emperor Julian's conception of Paidéia or education. To this end, I will work from the meanings of the Christian Logos and the Greek Logos making use also of Gregory Nazianzen's Against Julian, verifying whether the clash that occurred between Gregory Nazianzen and Julian was not only religious but politico-religious, taking into account that at that point of the 4th century AD no separation of these spheres had yet existed. The text is divided into Preliminary Considerations, where I argue that the conflict between the two authors is political-cultural; The Emperor Julian and the Historiography about his times, in which I demonstrate that since the Emperor Julian's own time there was a myth built around him, and finally about Nazianzen's purpose of writing Against Julian. All of these interlinked points lead to the comprehension of this specific political moment of Late Antiquity.

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Author Biography

  • Margarida Maria de Carvalho
    Tem experiência na área de História, com ênfase em História Antiga, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: História de Roma Antiga, Antiguidade Tardia, História Militar de Roma.

Published

2010-08-12

Issue

Section

History of Education

How to Cite

A political-culture case from late antiquity: the emperor julian and his concept of education - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v32i1.9488. (2010). Acta Scientiarum. Education, 32(1), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v32i1.9488

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