Sallustius

2 References

For the historian, see Sallust.

For other uses, see Sallust (disambiguation).

[1] Nock 1926:xcvii

Sallustius or Sallust (/slst/; Ancient Greek: ) was a 4th-century writer, a friend of the Roman Emperor Julian. He wrote the treatise On the Gods
and the Cosmos, a kind of catechism of 4th-century
Hellenic paganism. Sallustius work owes much to that of
Iamblichus of Chalcis, who synthesized Platonism with
Pythagoreanism and theurgy, and also to Julians own
philosophical writings.[1] The treatise is quite concise,
and generally free of the lengthy metaphysical theorizing
of the more detailed Neoplatonic texts. Its aim is in part
to parry the usual onslaughts of Christian polemic in the
face of Christianity's growing preeminence, and me[e]t
theology with theology.[2]

[2] Nock 1926:cii

[3] Sallustius Page of The Encyclopedia of the Goddess
Athena.
[4] Jona Lendering. Julianus Apostata on livius.org.
[5]
[6] Mario Meunier.
Prolgomnes, in Salluste le
Philosophe, Des Dieux et du Monde, p.5. (French)
[7] Jovianus Flavius, Christian emperor in Henry Wace
(1911). Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature
to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of
the Principal Sects and Heresies.

Sallustius exact identity is a matter of some uncertainty.

By some he is identied as Flavius Sallustius (a native
of Spain who was praetorian prefect of Gaul from 361
until 363 and Julians colleague as consul in 363),[3][4] by
others with Saturninius Secundus Salutius (died after
367 AD,[5] a native of Gaul who was praetorian prefect
of the Orient in 361).[6] The latter is said to have been
oered the purple, but declined it, after Julians death.[7]

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Greek Wikisource has original text related to this
article:
On the Gods and the World. (Thomas Taylor translation)
On the Gods and the World. (Gilbert Murray translation)

Editions
Gilbert Murray. 1925 On the Gods and the World,
appended to Murrays Five Stages of Greek Religion,
rst published in 1912 as Four Stages of Greek Religion.
Arthur Darby Nock (ed/trans.). 1926. Sallustius
concerning the gods and the universe. Edited with
prolegomena and translation. Available in various reprints, for example ISBN 0-89005-550-5 and
ISBN 3-487-01413-0.
Gabriel Rochefort. 1960. Des dieux et du monde.
Edition of the Greek text, with French translation
and notes, in the Collection Bud.
Thomas Taylor (ed/trans.). 1793. Sallust, On the
gods and the world; and the Pythagoric sentences
of Demophilus, translated from the Greek; and ve
hymns by Proclus, in the original Greek, with a poetical version. To which are added ve hymns by
the translator. Reprinted many times, for example
ISBN 0-7661-6735-6.
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