by Scott McGill
Isidore of Seville (600–636) 5, 38, 186, 195, 249, 368, 434, 437, 585 and panegyrical works 215, 216
Islam 16, 58, 172, 382, 528 see also Arabian/Arabic literature; Arabic languages
analytical theological debate 108
and Arabian literature 123, 124, 127, 128, 132, 135–138
and Arabic reception of late antique literature 570, 573, 574, 578, 580
and Armenian literature 80, 84
conversion to 107
early Islamic period 84, 105, 106, 108, 136, 570
and Georgian literature 89, 98
origins 127
and Pahlavi literature 103–106, 110, 111, 114–115, 116
pre‐Islamic Arabian language/literature 123, 127, 132, 135–136
Shiite doctrine 570
Isocrates 200, 212
itineraries 437 pseudepigraphy 406–407
travel/pilgrimage literature 363–365
Itinerarium Alexandri 406–407
Ivry, Alfred 573
IXII Panegyrici Latini (PanLat) collection 209
Jacob of Edessa 12, 16
Jacob of Serugh (d. 521) 49, 50–51, 52, 53
Jacob of Tsurtavi 89
Al‐Jallad, Ahmad 127
Jāmāsp Nāmag 109–110
James of Edessa 188
Jerome of Stridon (d. 420) 37, 39, 67, 150, 162, 171, 242, 254, 361, 523, 531, 532, 535, 600, 601, 604–608 and biblical commentary 315, 316, 321
Christian theological literature 328, 329
and chronicles 179, 183, 184, 185, 443
De Viris Illustribus 162, 328, 329, 333, 377
and letters/letter collections 393
and sermons 347, 350
translations 583
Jerusalem 88, 89, 361–364, 365
Jesus Christ 55, 66, 165, 172, 227, 333, 362, 539 see also Christianity; Crucifixion; Gospels; New Testament; Resurrection
and Christian poetry 266, 268
and hagiography 380, 381
Jews of Edessa 15
Job, commentary on 31
John (biblical) 230
John bar Aphthonia 54
John of Biclar 165–166, 182, 187
John of Damascus 16–17, 558
John of Ephesus 53, 55, 165, 166, 171, 382
John of Gaza 224, 265
John of Salisbury (d. 1180) 589
Johnson, Eleanor 282, 285
Jones, Alan 133, 134
Jordanes 38, 153, 154, 368
Joseph (biblical) 50
Joseph and Asenath 534
Juanšer Juanšeriani 97
Judaism 51, 126, 135, 334 see also Jews of Edessa; Old Testament
anti‐Jewish forgeries 408–409
legal texts 107
monotheism 125
rabbinic 534
and sermons 345, 346
Julian (Emperor) 36, 149, 194, 211, 217, 225, 252, 260, 328, 376, 428, 506, 620, 637 Caesars 283, 284, 289, 291, 614
death of 393, 622
prosimetra 284–285, 288, 289
Schools Edict (362 CE) 226
Juliana, Anicia 251, 264
Julius Africanus 14, 162
Julius Caesar 179
Justin II (565–574) 30, 156, 246
Justinian (Emperor, 537–565) 180, 249, 264, 367, 406, 441, 508, 524, 548 and antiquarian literature 540, 542
and ecclesiastical history 165–166, 171
and Greek language/literary works 14, 17
Justinianic Code 418–419, 420, 511, 592
Juvenal 614, 615
Juvencus, Gaius Vettius Aquilinus 33–34, 230, 231, 242, 321 and Christian poetry 267, 271, 273
and Western Middle Ages 585, 586
Ibn al‐Kalbī (d. ca 820) 128
Kārnāmag ī Ardaxšīr ī Pābagān (The Book of the Deeds of Ardaxšīr) 111
K’art’li region see also Caucasian region; Georgia/Georgian literature
Christianization of 91–92, 93
Church 93
conversion 93
polytheism 93
Kʻartʻlis cʻxovreba (Kartlis Tskhovreba) 99
Kʻartʻvelian monarchy 88, 97, 98
Kawad I 105, 110
Kennedy, George 472
Kennedy Toole, John 639
Kephalaia gnostica 52
K’ertol, Vrt’anes 81
Khalidi,Tarif 138
Khorenat’si, Movses 82
Khusro I 106
Khuzistan Chronicle 55
al‐Kindī 573
knowledge competition 494–496
fighting, grafting and healing 496–499
literature of 491–504
practicability, pursuit of 500–502
technical 493
textualization of 499
Kolbac’i, Eznik (390–455) 79–80, 91
Lactantius (ca. 250–320) 214–216, 242, 251, 444–445, 601 Divinarum institutionum libri vii 333, 334, 587
languages see also Coptic language and literary culture; Greek language
Albanian 88
Arabian see Arabic languages
Aramaic 13, 104, 129
Armenian 75–78
biblical 11
Bohairic 64
and Christianity 17, 64
classical 269
Georgia 88, 91
Ḥimyaritic 125, 126
imperial legislation, late antique 423–427
Semitic 124, 128
Syriac 171
late antiquity chronological limits, difficulty defining 5
end of, and Christian theological literature 337–338
Latin grammar, textual typology for 451–455
legal texts in 418–422
and literary history 3–4
self‐reflective correspondence 10
Latin Anthology 32
Latin Christian poetry 266–273
Latin epic poetry 227–233 allegorical 233
biblical 230–232
hagiographical 232–233
mythological 230
panegyrical 228–229
Latin literature 27–46 see also Latin Christian poetry; Latin epic poetry
Christian history and hagiography 37–40
ecclesiastical history 170
grammar 451–455, 453
historiography/historical writing 36–37, 144, 149, 153, 156
imperial court, removal 28
letter writing 34–36, 390
panegyrical and secular oratory 28–30
philosophy 31–32
religious verse 33–34
satire 291
secular verse 32–33
sermons 30–31
Laudes Domini 251, 266, 267
Laus Constantini (Eusebius) 209, 217
Laus Pisonis 212
Lausiac History (Palladius) 377
Law Book of Yišoboxt 107
Layton, Bentley 69
Lazar of Parp,’ 82,83–84
Le Mans Forgeries 411
lectionaries 78
Lector, Theodore 164, 165, 167
lectures, philosophical commentary 302
legal texts 417–430 Christian and Jewish 107
Digest 419, 529
forms and problems 418–422
Justinianic Code 418–419, 420, 511, 592
language and style, late antique imperial legislation 423–427
in late antiquity 418–422
Pahlavi (Middle Persian) literature 111–112
panegyrical works 427–429
Roman Empire 417, 418
sources 419–420
Theodosian Code 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 511
translation 528–529
Leo Grammaticus 147
Leo the Great 601
Leon VI, Emperor 562, 563
Leonidas of Terentum 252
Leoquelle 147, 148
Lerer, Seth 286
Letter 108 (Jerome) 361
letter collections see epistolography
Letter of Mara bar Serapion to His Son Serapion 54–5
5
Letter to the Athenians (Julian) 376
letter writing see epistolography
Levant region 89
lexicon/lexica 461–463
Libanius (pagan orator) 10, 36, 197, 203, 204, 245, 613 on autobiography 375–376
and letters/letter collections 390, 392, 393, 396
and panegyrical works 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 216, 217
Liber graduum (Book of Steps) 51, 52, 54
Liber Pontificalis (collection of papal lives) 40, 181
Liberatus of Carthage 441
Libri as Marcum filium (Cato) 495
Licinianus 254
Licinius Cyriacus 431
Life of Antony (Athanasius of Alexandria) 70, 380, 381, 562
Life of Germanus of Auxerre (Constantius) 39–40
Life of Martin (Fortunatus) 33, 39
Life of Nino 93, 94, 98
Life of St. Martin (Sulpicius Severus) 232, 592
Life of the Kʻartʻvelian Kings, The, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
Life of Vaxtang Gorgasali (ca. 800) 97, 98, 99
de Lille, Alain 397
Lim, Richard 353
Lindenbrog, Friedrich 620
literacy, Greek 10
Literal Interpretation of Genesis (Augustine of Hippo) 321
literary architecture, late antique 474–479
literary criticism, Byzantium period 564–567
literature see also texts; specific types
and biblical commentary 315–317
and Christianity 40
commenting 313
European concepts 573
initial conceptualization/systematization of 402–403
innovation in late antique literature 3–4
technical 502
terminology 5–6
wisdom 110
Lithica (Orphic) 225, 406
liturgy Greek Christian poetry 13, 261–262
Greek song 248
liturgical lectionary 81
and sermons 345, 353
texts 78
translation of liturgical books 78
Lives of Pachomius 70
Lives of the Eastern Saints (John of Ephesus) 53, 382
Lives of the Sophists (Philostratus) 210
Livrea, Enrico 224
Livy 182, 433, 434
Logos, the 321, 333
Logothetes, Symeon 562
“Long Fourth Century,” Christian theological literature 334–337
Lucian of Samosata 204, 216, 251, 330 prosimetra 283, 284, 287, 288, 289, 291
Lucius Septimius 303, 406
Lucretius 251
Luke (biblical) 48, 63, 80, 230
Luther, Martin 603
Luxorius 253
Lyall, Charles J. 133
Lydus, John 549 On Celestial Signs 540, 541, 542, 543, 548
On the Magistracies 540
On Months 540, 541, 542, 543, 548
McMullen, Ramsay 352, 353
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius 31, 461, 549 Saturnalia 256, 290, 434, 544, 546, 548, 592
macrotext 391, 395
Madaba map, Jordan 365
Madīyān ī Hazār Dādestān (The Exposition of One Thousand Judgments) 111–112
madrasha (Syriac poetic form) 50
Maiden Song 244
Majorian (Emperor, 457–461) 29, 229
Malalas, John 14, 156
Mallarmé, Stéphane 630, 632
Mamertinus, Claudius 210, 216, 428
Mamikonian, Vardan 83, 84, 89
Mani Codex 163
Manichaean literature 113–114 in Coptic 65
Middle Persian 113–114
Manichaeism 47, 376
Manutius, Aldus (1449–1515) 603
maps 124, 365–366
Marcellinus, Ammianus (d. ca. 400) 36, 367, 591 case study on 617–622
and chronicles 184, 186
and classicizing of history 144, 146, 147, 148, 150
and Gibbon 612, 615
Res Gestae 37, 151–153, 368, 495
style 618
Marcellus, Nonius 462, 463
Marcus Aurelius 225, 304
Marenbon, John 282
Marinus 227, 254
Marius Maximus 149
Marius of Avenches (d. 596) 38, 186
Marriage of Philology and Mercury (Capella) 283–284, 291, 452, 589
Marrou, Henri 472
Martialis, Gargilius 405
Martianus Capella see Capella, Martianus
Martin of Tours (d. 397) 39, 232, 251, 273, 588
Martyrdom of Evstatʻi Mcʻxetʻeli, The, 89–90
Martyrdom of Shushanik, The, 78
Martyrdom of St. Cyprian, The, (Eudocia) 264
martyrs/martyr texts 33, 285, 382–383 martyr acts 38–39
Marx, Michael 137
Mashtots 78, 79, 80, 81
mathematics 527
Matthew (biblical) 48, 63, 267
Matthews, John 422, 623
Maurus, Terentianus 464
mawzūn (measured poetry) 130
maxim 476, 484–485
Maximianus 253, 589, 635, 636
Maximus, Magnus 209, 392
Maximus, Valerius 431
Maximus of Ephesus 225
Maximus the Confessor 338
Mayer, Wendy 352
Mazdean religion see Zoroastrianism
Mcʻxetʻa/Mtskheta 89 dynastic monarchs of K’art’li based at 88
medical texts 404–406 translation 526–527
Medicina Plini 494–497, 501
medieval period 15
Medinet Madi texts 65
Mediterranean region, and Greek language 9
Mediterranean region, and Greek literary works 10
Melania the Elder 362
Memnon 442
memra (Syriac poetic form) 50, 51, 52, 53, 54
Menander Rhetor 194, 195 treatises of 53, 211
Menander II 201, 202
Menippean satire 281, 282, 288, 290, 291
Menippean Satires (Varro) 284
Mēnog ī Xrad 110
Merčʻule, Giorgi 90
Merobaudes, Flavius 209, 229, 246, 254
Meshiha Zekha 172
Mesopotamia 381
Messius, Arusianus 460
metaliterary compositions 6, 242
Metamorphoseis 288
Metamorphoses (Ovid) 425
metaphrast 264
Metaphrates, Symeon 562
metaphysical dualism 79
metaphysics 305
Metaphysics (Aristotle) 301
Methodius of Olympus 80, 244, 262
Metochites, Theodoros 563, 566, 567
metrics 453, 463–464
Metzger, Bruce M. 401
Micah of Beth Garmai 172
Middle Ages 156, 195, 232, 299, 598 Greek 145
High 588
Western 583–595
Middle Persian literature see Pahlavi (Middle Persian) literature
Migne, J.P. 263
Mihr‐Narseh 105
milestones 511, 512
Mimesis (Auerbach) 633
Minucianus of Athens 461, 474
Miphysite church 382
miracle collections 14
miracle stories 231
miracles 586
Mirian, King (K’art’velian, r. 284–361) 91, 92, 94, 95
missionary work 345
mixed‐meter satire 283–285
mnemonic techniques 297
Modern South Arabian languages 126
Modernism 633–636
Mokʻcʻevay kʻartʻlisay 98 see also Conversion of K’art’li
Momigliano, Arnaldo 540
Mommsen, Theodor 177, 179, 180, 184
monasteries 17, 77, 89, 381, 382, 432, 441, 574, 601 see also monastic communities; monasticism; monks
Chinese 524
federation of 67, 68
and translation 524, 528, 536
travel/pilgrimage literature 361, 363, 369
Monastery of the Archa
ngel Michael 62 see also Monastery of the Archangel Michael
monastic communities 39, 361, 381 see also monks; White Monastery (near Panopolis)
and Coptic language/literary culture 62, 65, 67, 69, 70
monastic tales 381–382
monasticism 53, 66, 94, 381, 382, 536
monks 39, 66, 84, 90, 144, 166, 255, 381, 383, 394, 433, 441 see also bishops; monastic communities
Coptic language and literary culture 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70
Egyptian 381
and school texts 479, 480, 481
Syrian 381
travel and pilgrimage literature 361, 369
monody 200–201
monotheism 125, 332, 362
moral determinism 79
Moralia (Plutarch) 559
morpholexical level, grammar 457–458
Mosaics of Time 177
Moschus, John 369
Mosella (Ausonius) 32, 495
Moses 162, 165
Mount of Olives, Jerusalem 362
Mowbedān Mowbed 106
Mroveli, Leonti (Archbishop) 96, 99
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh of Mecca (Muslim prophet) 136, 137, 138
mythological epic 222–223, 230
Nabataean Kingdom/script 128, 129
Nag Hammadi, codices discovered at 65
Namāra inscription (328) 128–129
Namatianus, Rutilius (fl. ca. 415) 495, 592, 629
Narcissus 243
narrative 40, 478–479, 486–487 Buddhist 487
Christian 262, 268
narrative church histories 14
Narsē 105
Natural History (Pliny) 495
Nature, call for return to 501–502
Nazarius 215
