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Round the 12 months 350, a tender orator and thinker referred to as Themistius brought a speech to the Emperor Constantius II in Ancyra (modern Ankara). Themistius discovered nice desire with the Emperor, who catapulted him into the Constantinople Senate in 355. He was once equally favorite through next emperors – Jovian (363–64), Valens (364–78) and Theodosius (379–95). This quantity offers translations of a variety of the speeches of Themistius, grouped into chapters that deal both with a key interval within the evolution of his occupation or with a series of occasions of specific historic value.
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75 Beyond his immediate impact as a speaker with greater personal credibility, a pose which was already being challenged by the mid-350s, Themistius the pagan philosopher was thus generally useful to Christian emperors as a cultural symbol. The detailed contents of the speeches indicate that Themistius also performed a highly useful function on a further, and much more speci¢c level of political operation. In their own lifetimes, each of Themistius’ imperial patrons was compared, in turn, to a set of ideal virtues derived in some way from Plato and Aristotle, and each was found to be the personi¢cation of those virtues.
It can probably also be taken seriously. 36 Themistius was far more, however, than a clever orator. He claimed as much about himself, of course, portraying himself as a serious philosopher with great truths to proclaim. The detailed evidence of the speeches, however, indicates that his claim was really true in a quite di¡erent sense. In the course of his forty-year career, Themistius went well beyond the parameters established by his predecessors for a socially active philosopher. The particular cultural and political conditions of mid-fourthcentury Constantinople allowed him to carve a role in public life which had been entirely unavailable to Dio some two hundred and ¢fty years earlier, or even to his father just a generation before.
95 The view of Vanderspoel, 1995, esp. 148^53 (on Jovian and religious toleration). Similar too is Dagron, 1968, 95^112, and Daly, 1972 on Orr. 8 and 10. These speeches refer to a senatorial embassy led by Themistius to Valens which attempted to persuade him to halt the war of 367^9 with the Goths. 34 THEMISTIUS already passed a measure of religious toleration which encompassed non-Christians (see Chapter 3). It was not Jovian, therefore, who needed to be persuaded of the virtues of religious toleration.