Sallustius, author (original) (raw)

Sallustius

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• Erik Robertson Dodds

• https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.5675

• Published online: 07 March 2016

Extract

Sallustius, author of a brief manual of Neoplatonic piety known as On the Gods and the World; see neoplatonism. He is probably to be identified with the emperor *Julian's friend, Flavius Sallustius, consul 363 (PLRE 1, ‘Sallustius’ 5). His book echoes the language and ideas of *Iamblichus (2) and Julian, and seems to have been written under Julian reign (ce 361–3) to support the pagan reaction against Christianity.