Open Access<em>De Statuis</em>: las fuentes cristianas sobre la “Revuelta de las estatuas”
Author(s) -
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
hispania sacra
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.132
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1988-4265
pISSN - 0018-215X
DOI - 10.3989/hs.2016.029
Subject(s) - humanities , art , philosophy
The historical account of the “Riot of the Statues” of A.D. 387 Antioch found in Christian authors coetaneous to the event and from the Vth century A.D. is provided from different literary genres but approached with common narrative lines. The decisive intervention of the Meletian group of the Antiochene Church in order to obtain the emperor Theodosius’ forgiveness and his portrait as a submissive ruler to Christian figures are the main leitmotifs in the accounts of John Chrysostom, Ambrose of Milan, Sozomenus and Theodoretus of Cyr