Index
Abraham
54
Achilles
262
Aemilii Lepidi: see Lepidi
Agathias
88–93, 264, 268
Agimundus, Homiliary of
152–153, 159, 161
Ajax
88
Aksum, kingdom of
173 n.
Alexander Severus
28
Alexandria
245, 250;
Alexandrian poetry
85
Alexandria Troas
249
Alföldi, A.
2, 3, 27, 30
Allianoi (near Pergamum)
238
Amalasuntha (ruler of Italy)
213–214
Amato, E.
126
ambitus
203, 212
Ambrose
8, 41–65, 225–226
Ammianus Marcellinus
2, 3, 7, 31, 35, 265
Anāhīd (Persian deity)
173, 176, 182 n., 187 n.
Anastasius Bibliothecarius
137 n., 166
Ancyra
12, 245
Anicii
3
Anthemius (emperor)
198, 199, 201–202, 203–205
Anthologia Palatina: see Palatine Anthology
Antinoopolis
127
Antioch
170, 246, 253, 273
anti-semitism
50, 58, 68, 73;
and
see synagogue at Callinicum
Antoninus Pius
17
Aphrodisias
250–252
Apion family
249
Apollonius of Rhodes
92
Apollonius the Sophist
94
Ardašīr I
177–178
Arethas (Byzantine scholar)
267
Arian Christians
63, 204, 207, 212, 218
Aristarchus
94–95, 100–102
Aristotle
44–45, 47, 50, 64;
Problems
76
Armenia
173 n.
army, Roman
233–234
Arusianus Messius
3
Asklepieia
236–237, 241–242
Aspar (cos. 434)
204
Athalaric, King
214–216
Augustine
224, 229, 230–231, 246
Augustus
234
Aurelius Victor
26, 31
Ausonius
74–75
‘Avianus’ (fabulist)
3
Baldwin, B.
272
Basil of Caesarea
47, 49–51, 56–58, 64–65, 243
Basilius, Fl. Caecina Decius Maximus (cos. 480)
210
Baynes, N.
26–27
Bellerophon
73–75
Ben Hur
272
betacism
156
Bianchini, Francesco
138–146, 151, 153–155, 157, 165, 167
bilingualism, Greek-Latin
4
Birt, T.
1
Bishapur
176
bishops
Chapter 10 passim
black bile
71, 76, 79
Bleckmann, B.
4, 36–37
Bond, S.
202
Book of Ceremonies
274
Bowersock, G. W.
241
bribery: see ambitus, simony, suffragium
Browning, R.
264
Byzantines, Byzantium
165, 260–275
‘Byzantinists’, disparaging use of term
262
Caelius Aurelianus
243
Callimachus
92
Cameron, Alan:
32, 33, 34, 35, 66–67, 96, 103, 104, 134, 168–169, 197;
challenges current opinions
2;
and circus factions
247–259;
and Greek Anthology
134, 247–259, 264 n., 267;
and prosopography
2;
scholarly development of
1–2, Chapter 14 passim;
Last Pagans of Rome
2, 3, 4, 6–7, 8, 9, 24, 33, 67, 68, 83–84, 220, 263, 275
Canaan (grandson of Noah)
58
Capraria (Capraia), monks of
67, 70–77
Caracalla
27
Carcopino, J.
67
Carolingians
138, 165
Carus
170, 185
Cassiodorus
214–216
Celsus (medical writer)
235
Charlemagne
138–139
Chastagnol, A.
3, 25
Chi-Rho
18
Christ as healer
242
Christianity and paganism, conflict between
3, 241–242
Christianity and slavery
Chapter 4 passim
Christianization of culture
129
Christodorus of Coptos
85, 93, 96–97, 99–100, 102
Christophilopoulou, Α.
250, 254
Cicero
33, 56, 64–65, 75, 222
Cipolla, C.
245
circus factions
247–259, 264–267, 272–275
Claudian
1, 3
Clement, John (16th c. scholar)
247
Codex Theodosianus
28, 238
Columbia University
270, 272
Columella
235, 239
Comeau, M.
230
communism, primitive
56–61, 65
Constans
17
Constantine
25, 26, 271
Constantine Cephalas (anthologist)
267
Constantine the Rhodian (poet)
263
Constantinople
13, 93, 97, 242, 269–271
Constantius II
12–21
contagious diseases
239–240
Coptic
105–106, 132
Cos
237
Councils of the Church
201, 225–228;
Aquileia (381 CE)
225–226;
Arles (475–480 CE)
199, 201;
Carthage (411 CE)
227–228;
Chalcedon (451 CE)
198–199, 201, 226–227;
Constantinople (459 CE)
201;
Orleans (533 CE)
201;
Rome
201, 211–212
Cracco Ruggini, L.
9, 10, 271
Cumont, F.
244
Dagron, G.
269, 271, 275
Daniel the Stylite
245
Dardanus, Cl. Postumus (PPO Galliarum)
70
Darwin
232
David (king of Israel)
53
debt
59–63
Dessau, H.
25
De Ste Croix, G. E. M.
202–203, 273
Dexippus
37–38
dictation
222, 224
Didyma
252, 256
Dio Chrysostom
54, 101–102, 222
Diocletian
16, 170, 173–175, 177, 185, 187, 190
Dionysius of Alexandria
240
Dioscoros of Aphrodite
104–133
doctors
234–238, 241, 242, 244;
public
238
Donatists
227–228
Dressler, M. [Griffin]
260
Duchesne, L.
135, 144–148
Edessa
243
Egypt
249
ekphrasis
86, 93, 96–97, 266
Elagabalus
18
Elsner, J.
276
Enmann’s Kaisergeschichte
26, 31
Ensslin, W.
2
Ephesus
250, 252–256
Ephrem (holy man)
243
epigrams
85–102
Epiphanius
242, 245
Erbse, H.
95
Essenes
57–58
ethopoia
,
Chapter 7 passim;
defined
,
120–121
Euchaïta (Pontus)
244
‘Eugenia’ (fictitious saint)
79–80
Eugenius I (pope)
139, 153–154, 156–157
Eusebius
242
Eustathius (Homer commentator)
98
Eustathius of Sebasteia (bishop)
242–243
Eutropius
26, 31, 37
Eve
58
Fabiola (wealthy philanthropist)
244
famine
61, 65
Felix (pope)
200
Fel Temp Reparatio (coin legend)
11–22
Ferrari, M.
67
Festus, Postumius Rufus, signo Avienius
3
Finley, M. I.
44
Fıratlı, N.
248
Flavianus, Virius Nicomachus senior
4, 24, 31, 36–37
Flinders Petrie, W. M.
253
Fo, A.
69, 70
Fraenkel, E.
260
futuwwa, Islamic
274
Galen
220–221
Galerius
192, 194;
Arch of: see Thessalonica
Garnsey, P.
45, 48–49
Gascou, J.
249
Gaudentius of Brescia
229
Gelasius (pope)
200, 205, 209, 210–211
Genesius (‘saint’)
221
Gerasa
250–251, 258
Germia (Galatia)
250, 257
Gerontius (biographer)
77, 80–82
Gibbon
1 n., 260
Giggs, M.
247
Glycerius (emperor)
198, 199, 205–208
God, Christian
42–43, 45–46, 53–56, 59–61, 64–65
Gordian III
169
Gorgo (Gorgona), hermit of
68, 70, 72
Gortyn
250, 253, 255
Goths
65
Gourevitch, D.
240
Gratian
61
Greek Anthology
86, 96, 103, 134, 247–248, 264–268, 276
Gregorius II (pope)
148–149, 165
Gregory the Great
166, 203
Gregory Magister
267
Gregory of Nazianzus
85, 93, 95–96, 102, 243
Griffin, J.
260, 263 n.
Ḥaḍramawt, rulers of
173 n.
Hadrian
249
Hadrian II (pope)
166
Haltern
234
hapax legomena
86, 88–93
Harig, G.
233, 236
Harper, K.
44 n.
Harris, W. V.
270
Hartke, W.
31
Hatra
191, 195
healing miracle
231
Hercules
178
Hermogenes of Tarsus
128
Herodes Atticus
220
Herodian
29
Hesiod
121
Heston, Charlton
272
Hilarius (pope)
204–205
Hirschfeld, O.
26, 27
Historia Augusta
4, 23–39, 265;
anachronisms in
25–28;
date of
30–36;
sources of
28–30
Hod Hill (Dorset)
234
Hohl, E.
26
Holste (Holstenius), L.
137–138, 144–146, 154, 167
Homer
73–76, Chapter 6 passim, Chapter 7 passim
Homeric Hymns
93, 97
‘Homeromania’
130–132
homilies
224–225, 228–232
Hormizd I
171 n., 179, 184
Huebner, S.
198, 217
Hyginus, Ps.-
234
iatreion (doctor’s workplace)
237–238
infamia
202
infrared photos of papyri
105–106
initials, decorated (in illuminated manuscripts)
156–165
Isaac
45, 48, 51
Ishmael (son of Abraham and Hagar)
51
Israelowich, I.
234
Istanbul
248, 265
Jacob and Esau (sons of Isaac)
45–46, 48–51, 53–55, 65
Jarry, J.
272
Jerome
34, 223, 244;
Life of Hilarion
24, 32–36, 220
Jesus
53, 55
John II (pope)
214
John Chrysostom
230, 231, 244
John the Deacon
166
John the Lydian
271
Jordanes
37–38
Joseph (son of Jacob)
52–55, 65
Julian
173 n., 246
Justinian
148, 200–201, 216–218
Juvenal
90
Juvenal (bishop of Jerusalem)
226
Juvenianus Codex
152, 157, 161
Kaldellis, A.
261
Kelly, C.
203
Kitzinger, E.
9
Kom el-Dikka
252, 258
Klein, R.
49
Lachmann method
135
Lactantius
172–173
Łajtar, A.
250
Lana, I.
67
Last Statues of Antiquity team
248
Laurentian Schism
211–214
Lauxtermann, M.
267–269, 276
Lehmann, P.
145–146
Lemerle, P.
268
Leo (emperor)
198, 199, 201–202, 203–204
lepers, leprosy
243, 244
Lepidi
69–70
Lepidus, Cl. (comes rei privatae)
70
Levison, W.
154
lexicon, Greek, in late antiquity
131
Libanius
54, 128, 223, 224
Liber pontificalis
134–167
Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G.
273
Maas, P.
273
Mabillon, Jean
139
MacCoull, L. S. B.
105
Macedonian renaissance, so-called
268
Macrobius
3, 4
Magdalino, P.
262, 269
Magnesia on the Maeander
252
Manchester United
254
Mango, C.
268
Manojlović, G.
273
Marathonius (hospital supervisor?)
242
Marcellinus (tribunus et notarius)
227–228
Marius Maximus
29
Marxism
273
Maspero, J.
105
Maximinus (Arian bishop)
226
Maximos Planudes
266
Mazzarino, S.
271
McLynn, N.
41
melancholy: see black bile
Melania the Younger
77–83
Messius Phoebus Severus: see Severus
Milan
59, 61–62, 271
Miletus
251–252, 256, 274
military medical care
233–235, 239
Momigliano, A.
2
Mommsen
26, 135, 144–145, 147–148
monetary system, Roman
16–17
monks: see Capraria, Gorgo
Mordtmann, J. H.
247
More, Thomas
247
Mosaic Law
51
Naqsh-e Rajab (Iran)
178, 179
Naqsh-e Rustam, inscription of Šābuhr [Sapor] I at
170 n., 176, 179, 181, 185–187
Narseh (Sasanian king)
176, 185–187
Narses (Byzantine general)
148
Neoplatonism
261
New Testament
44
Nicholas I (pope)
166
Nicolaos (rhetorician)
128
Nicomachi Flaviani
8, 9–10;
and
see Flavianus
Nika riots
273–274
Nilus of Ancyra
244 n.
Nisibis, treaty of
170
Noah
54, 58
Nonnos
87, 91, 108–109, 112–114, 120
nosokomeion
244
Nutton, V.
233, 235, 238, 239
Nysa
251, 256
Odysseus
101
Ohrmazd (Iranian god)
178
Old Testament
51–53, 58
Olivar, A.
230
Olybrius
3
Olympiodorus
5–6
Orfitus, Memmius Vitrasius
6–7
Ostrogoths
38
Ovid
69, 74
Oxford
260
Oxyrhynchos
122, 250–252, 259
Pack, R. A.
2
‘paganism’
4–5
paganism and Christianity: see Christianity and paganism
Palatine Anthology
128
Palladius (Arian bishop)
226
Palladius (author of the Lausiac History)
81–82, 244
Palmyra
191, 195
Pandulphus Romanus (12th c. cardinal)
147–149
panegyric
11–16, 19–21
Parastaseis
264, 269–270
Parcerisa, J. P.
253
Pareti, L.
253
Parma
139, 153
Parthians
193–195, 197
Paschoud, F.
4, 23, 31
Paul I (pope)
139, 157, 162
Paul the Silentiary
113, 118
Paul of Tarsus
46–47, 50–51, 53–56, 59, 64–65
Paulinus
74–75
paying for ecclesiastical office: see simony
Pelagius I (pope)
218–219
Pepin (king of the Franks)
139
Persian empire: see Parthians, Sasanian Empire
Peter (apostle)
157
Peter, H.
26
Petronius Probus: see Probus
Petzl, G.
249
Philip the Arab
169, 180–181
Philo
Chapter 4 passim
philosophers
13–15
Phocas
252
Pickard [West], S.
260
Pighi, G. B.
2
Pinianus (husband of Melania)
78–79
Pistelli, E.
252
Planudes, Planudean Anthology
247, 266, 267, 268
Plato, Platonizing
49–50, 51
Plautus
237–238
Pliny the younger
7
Polara, G.
5
Porphyrius
247–250, 264–266, 274
Potiphar
52
Praetextatus, Vettius Agorius
2, 4, 7, 271
Priene
253, 256
Priscillian
76
Probinus, Anicius (cos. 395)
3
Probus, Sex. Claudius Petronius (PPO Italiae)
7, 27, 28
προγυµνάσµατα
125–126
Prosopographia Imperii Romani
25
ptôcheia, ptôchotropheia
241, 243
Ptolemaic rulers
180
Queen Christina
137
Quintilian
222
Quintus of Smyrna
91, 96
ransoming of prisoners
62–65
Ratti, S.
8, 23, 31, 67 n.
Reimea (Roman Arabia)
251, 258
Reynolds, J.
250
Rhodiapolis
250, 252, 254, 257
Ricimer
205
Rimini, House of the Surgeon
237
Robert, L.
248, 253, 265, 274
Rome
44, Chapter 8 passim;
Altar of Victory
63;
Arch of Constantine
194–196;
and
see senate
Roueché, C.
274
Rufius Festus Avienius: see Festus
Rushdie, Salman
39
Rutilius Namatianus
3, 66–84
Šābuhr I
169–173, 176, 179
Šābuhr II
20–21
Salmasianus Codex
152, 157, 160–164
Sar Mashhad (Iran)
182, 184
‘Saraceni’, raid of
150
Sargveshi cup
184, 186, 194
Sasanian Empire
20–21, 168–197
Satala (Armenia)
170, 187, 192–194
Scarborough, J.
235
Schelstrate, Emmanuel
138
Schütrumpf, E.
50
scripts: minuscule
151, 167;
uncial
134, 136, 139, 145, 151–157, 166–167
Scythopolis (Judaea)
250–251, 258
Seeck, O.
1, 26
Seleucids
177, 180, 181
senate of Rome
6, 205, 208, 215–216
Seneca
235
Sergius II (pope)
146, 149–150, 152
sermons: see homilies
Severianus of Gabala (bishop)
231
Severus, Fl. Messius Phoebus (cos. 470)
205
Shaw, B.
225
Sidonius Apollinaris
66 n., 206
Simon Magus
201, 210
simonia, simoniacus
203
simony
198–219
Simplicius (pope)
200, 205, 209–210, 212–213
sin
54–56, 58–60, 65
slavery, slaves
41–65, 235, 239, 240–241
Socrates (historian)
129
Sozomen
246
sortes Vergilianae
26
Spingou, F.
267, 268, 276
stenographers
220–232
Stephen V (pope)
135, 165
Stilicho
3, 68, 70
Stoicism, Stoics
45, 47–56, 64–65
Stowers, S.
221
St. Paul’s School
247, 264 n.
Stratonicaea (provincia Asia)
253, 257
Straub, J.
3, 4, 27, 31
Sudhoff, K.
236
subscriptiones
3
suffragium
202–203
Supino Martini, P.
166–167
Syme, R.
25 n., 27 n., 29, 32, 34–35
Symmachi
3, 5, 6, 9–10
Symmachus, Q. Aurelius (cos. 391)
1, 2, 6–8, 61, 68
Symmachus, Aurelius Valerius Tullianus (cos. 330)
5
Symmachus (pope)
200, 211–214
synagogue at Callinicum, destruction of
61–62
Synesius
101–102
Syria
170, 253
Tang-e Chowgan (Iran)
176
Tang-e Qandil (Iran)
182 n.
Technitai of Dionysus
249
Tetrarchy
16, 173–175, 177, 185, 187–195
Themistius
11–22
Theocritus
100–102
Theodore of Cynopolis
121
Theodore the Recruit, St.
244
Theoderic (king of the Ostrogoths)
211–213
Theodosius senior
9
Theodosius I
15 n., 61–62, 65
Thessalonica, Thessaloniki
62, 250, 255;
Arch of Galerius
173–175, 184, 187–195
Thompson, E. A.
2
Tiberius
233–234
Traube, L.
145
Tyche
254
Tyre
250–251, 257–258
Umm el-Jimal (Jordan)
253, 258
Umm ar-Rasas (Jordan)
258
valetudinaria
Chapter 12 passim
Valentinian II
61
Valerian
169–170, 172, 187, 192, 194, 195
van der Valk, M.
95
Van Nuffelen, P.
246
variatio, poetic
124
Varro
235
Vatican Library
Chapter 8 passim
Ventrella, G.
126
Vera, D.
6
Victory: on coin types
18, 192;
Altar of
,
63;
victory acclamations
254;
and
see Thessalonica, Arch of Galerius
Vigilius (pope)
217
Vindolanda
240
Vitrasius: see Orfitus
Volusianus
5, 66 n., 68–69, 80
Vryonis, S.
274
Warahrān I
178, 179
Warahrān II
170, 180–185
Warahrān III
185
Weitzmann, K.
268
West, M. L.
9 n., 260, 263 n.
women, imperial Roman
148, 168–169, 177, 185
Wood, P.
203–204
writing
Chapter 11 passim
xenodocheion
241
Zeno (philosopher)
45, 56
Zeno (emperor)
204
Zonaras
36, 37
Zosimus
24
Zumpt, A. W.
70