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Sallustius
Sallustius
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Sallustius (Greek Salloustios) was a Neoplatonist philosopher of the 4th century CE, generally identified as a friend and associate of the emperor Julian the Apostate. He is best known as the probable author of "On the Gods and the Cosmos" (De Diis et Mundo), a concise handbook of late-antique pagan theology and Neoplatonic doctrine. The work served almost as a catechism for Julian's attempted revival of traditional Greco-Roman religion, treating the nature of the gods, providence, the soul, myth, and the eternity of the cosmos. The exact identity of its author among contemporaries named Sallustius remains debated.
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About Antioch
Antioch, on the Orontes at the site of modern Antakya in southern Turkey, was founded around 300 BCE by Seleucus I, was a Seleucid capital and then capital of Roman Syria. It was a centre of Hellenistic Judaism and of Greek rhetoric, where Libanius taught. According to the New Testament, followers of Jesus were first called Christians there; Ignatius was an early bishop, John Chrysostom was born there, and the city became the seat of one of the great patriarchates. Arab forces took it in 637 for the caliphate; the Byzantines recaptured it in 969, and after Seljuk rule it was a Crusader principality from 1098 until the Mamluk sultan Baybars razed it in 1268.