Acta Scientiarum. Education
On-line version ISSN 2178-5201
Abstract
CARVALHO, Margarida Maria de. Um caso político-cultural na antiguidade tardia: o Imperador Juliano e seu conceito de educação. Acta Scientiarum. Education [online]. 2010, vol.32, n.01, pp.27-39. ISSN 2178-5201.
In this article, I propose to appraise Emperor Julian’s conception of Paideiaor education. To this end, I will work from the meanings of the Christian Logos and the Greek Logos making use also of Gregory Nazianzen’s Against Julian, verifying whether the clash that occurred between Gregory Nazianzen and Julian was not only religious but politico-religious, taking into account that at that point of the 4th century AD no separation of these spheres had yet existed. The text is divided into Preliminary Considerations, where I argue that the conflict between the two authors is political-cultural; The Emperor Julian and the Historiography about his times, in which I demonstrate that since the Emperor Julian’s own time there was a myth built around him, and finally about Nazianzen’s purpose of writing Against Julian. All of these interlinked points lead to the comprehension of this specific political moment of Late Antiquity.
Keywords : Politico-Religious Conflict; Late Antiquity Author; Political Culture Dimension; Church Priests; Christian Logos; Greek Logos.