Letters.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 12233 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 250 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2008 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251799988 |
Classic bilingual collection. Taken together, all his writings offer an insight into Julian the Apostate unparalleled by any other ancient figure, except Cicero. In this unique corpus, made up of treatises (the Misopogon or the Contra Galileos), polemics, panegyrics, and speeches, the letters, which extend from his mission in Gaul as Caesar (355) to the proclamation of Lutetia, then to his stay in Antioch and Constantinople, and finally to the Persian campaign (363), form an exceptional collection. With a writing skill whose singularity has been highlighted by Alexandre Kojève, Julian the Apostate reveals himself and exposes his ambiguous vision of Christianity and Judaism, and especially his adherence to paganism. These letters are rare documents that allow us to follow the twists and turns of the mind of an apostate who struggles to free himself from the religion he left and whose syncretism convinces neither pagans nor Christians. Beyond the failure of the restoration of paganism, they give a vision of the Empire, on the eve of its definitive Christianization, very different from the black legend of the Apostate, woven in particular by a former fellow student, the Father of the Church Gregory of Nazianzus.
Classic bilingual collection. Taken together, all his writings offer an insight into Julian the Apostate unparalleled by any other ancient figure, except Cicero. In this unique corpus, made up of treatises (the Misopogon or the Contra Galileos), polemics, panegyrics, and speeches, the letters, which extend from his mission in Gaul as Caesar (355) to the proclamation of Lutetia, then to his stay in Antioch and Constantinople, and finally to the Persian campaign (363), form an exceptional collection. With a writing skill whose singularity has been highlighted by Alexandre Kojève, Julian the Apostate reveals himself and exposes his ambiguous vision of Christianity and Judaism, and especially his adherence to paganism. These letters are rare documents that allow us to follow the twists and turns of the mind of an apostate who struggles to free himself from the religion he left and whose syncretism convinces neither pagans nor Christians. Beyond the failure of the restoration of paganism, they give a vision of the Empire, on the eve of its definitive Christianization, very different from the black legend of the Apostate, woven in particular by a former fellow student, the Father of the Church Gregory of Nazianzus.