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Updated 11/20/2008

I. Restabilization: Diocletian and the Dominate (A.D. 284-305); dominus, dominatrix

a. tetrarchy: 2 Augusti and 2 Caesars
b. streamlining of the empire; provinces and dioceses
c. economics by decree: the Edict on Maximum Prices (A.D. 301)

II. Back to one-man rule: Constantine (A.D. 312-337)

Power politics: vs. Maxentius (Battle of the Milvian Bridge in A.D. 312: in hoc signo vinces);
Edict of Toleration in 313; Battle of Adrianople vs. Licinius in 323; Constantinople

The emperor and the Christians: the Arian controversy: Arius; Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325;
homoousios vs. homoiousios

III. Julian (331-363 A.D.)

a.childhood and youth; Constantius II; Macellum; Gallus

b.the liberation: Athens U (pp. 126ff.); university life: Libanius; trivium (grammar, rhetoric, dialectic),
quadrivium (geometry/geography, arithmetic, astronomy, music)

7th inning stretch: Julian's home page in MySpace.com

IV. Julian in power

a. edicts: recall of exiled Christian bishops; edict against Christians teaching Greek literature (pp. 361-4)
b. Christianity imitated: philanthropia

c. Neoplatonism ("the Broad Church of Paganism")

- Plotinus ( A.D. 204-270); "the One"
- Porphyry (232-304): anti-Christian treatises
- Iamblichus (250-325): theurgy and magic; cf. Maximus (pp. 415-6) and Sosipatra; Priscus