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Socrates Scholasticus on Greek Paideia
Acta Antiqua, 2005 In his discussion about the Biblical paraphrases written by the two Apolinarii Socrates Scholasticus claims that the study of pagan literature is necessary for the Christians. He starts by proving the harmlessness of studying Greek philosophy and comes to the conclusion that far from being harmful it is actually desirable, since familiarity with Greek ...
Zoltán Farkas
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The Literary Connoisseur. Socrates Scholasticus on Rhetoric, Literature and Religious Orthodoxy
Vigiliae Christianae, 2015 This paper explores Socrates Scholasticus’ accounts of rhetorical deliveries and allusions to bishops’ oratorical displays in the light of new tendencies in late antique literature and historiography with the aim of concluding that the Church historian considered that rhetorical deliveries were part of the negotiating process in the search of religious
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
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Kairos and Cosmic Sympathy in the Church Historian Socrates Scholasticus
Church History, 1975 The concept of Fortune (Tychē) had lain at the very center of traditional pagan thought about history. Herodotus thought that the gods intervened in history to control the course of men's fortunes. His successor Thucydides completely rejected any notion of divine intervention in history, but nevertheless used the word tychē twenty-eight times in his ...
Glenn F. Chesnut
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Two unrelated “court tales” such as the mission of bishop Marutha to Yazdgerd I in the Ecclesiastical history by the Greek historian Socrates (5th c. CE), and the account of the Zoroastrian heretic Mazdak preserved in the Siyāsatnāma by the Seljuk vizier Niẓām al-Mulk (11th c.), share a common narrative: an impostor contrives to make the sacred ...
PELLO', S., BERNARD, A.
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Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History 7.7.1–5, 7.13.1–15.7
Bradley K. Storin
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