Marilena Casella, Galerio. Il tetrarca infine tollerante, «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, Roma, 2017, 244 p. (Moncerdac 43) (Nelu ZUGRAVU)
Marilena Casella, Galerius. The finally tolerant tetrarch, "L’Erma" by Bretschneider, Rome, 2017, 244 p. (Moncerdac 43) (Nelu ZUGRAVU)

Summary/Abstract: Renowned connoisseur (and publisher) of the work of Libanios, but also of others works from late Antiquity, especially legal ones, the author has produced aBased tetrarch's "political biography", as she even testifies inthe Introduzione, on the analysis of "organic evolution", in time, of itspersonality and his reign. This analysis is also based on a “giustoequilibrio ”(p. 2) between the events where the context has also been involvedbroader historical (political, social, ideological, spiritual), specific to the end3rd century and early 4th century. It is also based on internal analysis andcomparison of the information offered by literary and epigraphic sources,legal, archaeological, artistic and numismatic, on the evidenceof the way in which the different rhetorical topoi (tyrannus, barbaritas, hostilitytowards romanitas, the absence of paideia) were used by the authorsChristians to sketch the portrait of Galerius.

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