Harold Allen Drake - Violence in Late Antiquity. Perceptions and Practices

Mosaic from the basilic of Junius Bassus, 4th century A.D.,
Reproduced by permission of the Archivio Fotografico dei Musei Capitolini.
Photograph by H.A. Drake.

Perceptions and Practices

Edited by
H.A. DRAKE
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Co-Editors
Emily Albu, Susanna Elm, Michael Maas,
Claudia Rapp, Michele Salzman
Editorial Assistant
Jacob Latham

First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Violence in late antiquity: perceptions and practices
1.Violence Rome 2. Violence - Rome - Religious aspects 3. Rhetoric, Ancient 4. Violence
in literature 5.Rome - Politics and government 30 B.C. 284 A.D. 6.Rome Politics and
government 284476 7.Rome - Provinces Administration
I.Drake, H.A. (Harold Allen), 1942
303.6093709015

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Violence in late antiquity: perceptions and practices / edited by H.A. Drake,
p. cm.
Based on papers presented at the fifth biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late
Antiquity, held at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, in March 2023, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-5498-2 (alk. paper)
1. Violence-Rome-History-Congresses. 2. Rome-History-Empire, 284476Congresses.
3. Byzantine Empire-History-To 527-Congresses. 4. Byzantine EmpireHistory527
1081Congresses. I. Drake, H. A. (Harold Allen), 1942 II. Biennial Conference on
Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (5th: 2003: University of California, Santa Barbara)

DG312.V56 2006
303.6093709015dc22

2005026459

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-5498-8 (hbk)

H.A. Drake

Walter Pohl

Ralph W. Mathisen

Wolf Liebeschuetz

Linda Honey

Tziona Grossmark

S.J. McDonough

Jill Harries

Sofa Torallas Tovar

Bill Leadbetter

Hartmut Ziche

Gillian Clark

Isabel Moreira

Eric Fournier

Thomas Sizgorich

Brent D. Shaw

Janet B. Davis

Wendy Mayer

Daniel Washburn

Jacqueline Long

Young Kim

Clarissa Burt

Michele Renee Salzman

Daniel Sarefield

David Riggs

Amelia Robertson Brown

Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho

Edward Watts

Martin Zimmermann

Amelia Robertson Brown is a PhD Candidate in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation deals with the art, archaeology and political life of Greek cities in Late Antiquity.

Clarissa Burt is an Assistant Professor in the Language Studies Department of the United States Naval Academy. Her research concerns Arabic poetry, ancient and modern.

Gillian Clark is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol and coeditor of Oxford Early Christian Texts and Translated Texts for Historians. She is currently engaged in a collaborative commentary on Augustines City of God.

Janet B. Davis is Emeritus Professor of Communication in the Division of Language and Literature at Truman State University in Missouri. A specialist in rhetoric and communication theory, she has published on Hermogenes of Tarsus.

H.A. Drake is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance and currently studying Jewish-Christian identity in Late Antiquity.

Eric Fournier is a graduate student in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is completing a dissertation on the relationship between exile and persecution in the writing of Victor of Vita.

Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is currently working on a book on bishops and doctrinal controversy in the fourth century.

Tziona Grossmark is a Senior Lecturer at Tel Hai Academic College, Israel. Her current research is on travelers stories in Talmudic literature.

Jill Harries is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She works on Roman law and society and has a book forthcoming on Cicero and the Jurists.

Linda Honey is a graduate student in Classical and Early Christian Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her doctoral dissertation deals with gender roles in the Miracles of St. Thekla.

Young Kim is a graduate student in History at the University of Michigan. His doctoral dissertation is on The Imagined Worlds of Epiphanius of Cyprus.

Bill Leadbetter is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, Australia. He is currently engaged on both the epigraphic catalogue of Aperlae in Lycia and a major study of late Roman imperial politics.

J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Nottingham and the author, most recently, of Decline and Fall of the Roman City and a translation of the political speeches and letters of Ambrose of Milan.

Jacqueline Long is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Loyola University Chicago. Her current major research projects center on the Historia Augusta.

Ralph W. Mathisen is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. His numerous writings include, most recently, People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity.

Wendy Mayer is a Resident Fellow in the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at Catholic University of America and Honorary Research Associate in the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University. She specialises in the social history of late antiquity and the writings of John Chrysostom.

Scott John McDonough is Assistant Professor of History at the William Paterson University of New Jersey. He is currently researching the creation of cultural, confessional and political identities in late ancient Iran.

Isabel Moreira