The frailties of ‘basileia’ according to John Chrysostom: some remarks on the treatise ‘A comparison between a king and a monk’
Living in a society under the threat of Persians and Barbarians, John Chrysostom, differently from his predecessors, like Eusebius of Cesarea, did not devise the Graeco-Roman basileia as an institution that bore any special religious meaning. As for him, the Roman Empire was just a gathering of huma...
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Universidade Estadual de Londrina
2016-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/22575 |