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The conflict of religions during the Christianization of the
Greco-Roman aristocracy in Late Antiquity is typified by Synesius
(ca. A.D. 365/70-414?), an old-fashioned pagan Neoplatonist who
studied under Hypatia at Alexandria, yet who in A.D. 410 became the
Christian bishop of Ptolemais in Libya. Before accepting, however,
he openly stated his objections to certain Christian dogmas. Was he
a Christian or a "baptized Neoplatonist"? The generation of
Synesius saw the rapid decline of paganism. Furthermore, the
Constantinople he visited (A.D. 399-402) was a Greek-Christian Rome
whose elites were classically educated. He returned home an ally of
the city's Orthodox Christians. He tried to reconcile Neoplatonism
with Christianity, but a study of his works demonstrates that he
was only partially successful. Synesius is important for our
understanding of the old aristocracy in Late Antiquity. His
becoming a bishop completes the picture in which we finally see the
ancient world transforming itself into the medieval world. The life
of Synesius, one man of Late Antiquity, may be viewed as both the
recapitulation and anticipation of all the major themes of
Classical and Late Antiquity. This title is part of UC Press's
Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1982.
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