Richard Goulet

Prohérésius le païen et quelques remarques sur la chronologie d’Eunape de Sardes

Scholars have usually accepted St Jerome’s account, according to which the sophist Prohaeresius was removed from his chair of rhetoric in Athens because he was a Christian, as a result of Julian’s edict ordering the paganization of schools in 362. Eunapius’ testimony and a letter to Prohaeresius written by Julian himself, together with two epitaphs composed by Gregory of Nazianzus, his former student, give rather weak support to the view that Prohaeresius was a Christian. On the other hand, it is not certain that the anti-Christian edict on schools was explicitly directed against Christian teachers. This edict may, moreover, have required proofs of Hellenism that even some Pagan teachers would have been reluctant to give at that time, as we can see by the attitude of other Pagan intellectuals under Julian’s reign. The second part of the paper is an attempt to refute the objections raised by some scholars against the chronology of Eunapius, which the present author set forth in JHS 100, 1980, p. 60-72. It ...

Cinq nouveaux fragments nominaux du traité de Porphyre “Contre les chrétiens”

First publication of five fragments from Porphyry’s treatise Against the Christians discovered in Michael Psellus, Michael Glykas and Damascenus Studites. These objections are explicitly attributed to Porphyry and bear on biblical verses known to have been attacked by this opponent to christianity.

Aristarque : un logiciel d'aide à la préparation d'une édition critique

Presentation dun nouveau logiciel developpe sous Quatrieme Dimension. Il facilite la preparation deditions critiques de textes grecs et latins, en enregistrant dans une base de donnee les lecons des manuscrits, les marginalia et les references des sources du texte. Il reprend par ailleurs, dans une version amelioree, les fonctions dindexation et de lemmatisation de Lexis.

Dosithée de Cilicie

In his Monogenes, Macarius of Magnesia (IVth century C.E.) twice mentions a certain Dositheus of Cilicia, who was the Encratite author of an eight-volume work from which Macarius quotes a sentence. This heretical Dositheus does not seem to be identical with any of his hononyms known from elsewhere, such as Dositheus of Samaria.