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“A Barbarian by Birth, Yet a Hellene in Everything Else”: The Image of a Pious Barbarian in the Works of Late Roman Pagans
Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia Pub Date : 2020-12-18 , DOI: 10.1163/15700577-12341384
Mikhail A. Vedeshkin 1
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The Christianisation of the Roman Empire in the 4th-5th centuries led to a blurring of the traditional ethnocultural dichotomy (Barbarians – Romans), and to the emergence of a new type of social division on the basis of religion: pagan – Christian. The present article is devoted to the analysis of the image of a “pious” (pagan) barbarian, formed in Late Antique pagan historiography. The conclusion is made that pagans saw their barbarian coreligionists as the defenders of their faith against the anti-pagan state policy. Comparing pagan barbarians to their fellow Christian tribesmen, they tried to prove that only pagans can be true allies of Rome. Finally, the military successes of the pagan warlords served as evidence of the active participation of the gods in the affairs of their followers and acted as an argument for the preservation of the traditional forms of worship.



中文翻译:

“出生时的野蛮人,但其他事物中都有恶作剧”:晚期罗马异教徒作品中虔诚的野蛮人的形象

罗马帝国在4至5世纪的基督教化导致传统民族文化二分法(野蛮人-罗马人)的模糊化,并导致了基于宗教的新型社会分化:异教徒-基督教。本文致力于分析晚期古董异教历史学中形成的“虔诚”(异教徒)野蛮人的形象。得出的结论是,异教徒将其蛮族核心主义者视为反对反异教徒国家政策的信仰捍卫者。比较异教徒的野蛮人和他们的基督教部落成员,他们试图证明只有异教徒才能成为罗马的真正盟友。最后,

更新日期:2020-12-18
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