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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 (Antakya), today in the Hatay province of southern Turkey near the Syrian border, was a major late-antique city that came under Muslim rule after the conquest of Syria, was retaken by the Byzantines in 969, and changed hands repeatedly during the Crusades. The poet al-Ma'arri (d. 1057) came from nearby Ma'arrat al-Nu'man; the astronomer al-Battani (d. 929) was active in the wider Syrian region.