In Defiance of History by Victoria Leonard

Author:Victoria Leonard [Leonard, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Ancient
ISBN: 9781317084969
Google: yvVUEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-01-31T16:18:13+00:00

The peace of Augustus, demonstrated by the silence and rust of the closed temple of Janus, is driven not just by a cessation but an eradication of war. The peace that settles over humanity is transformative, generating political harmony characterized by a singularity that is paralleled not only in the sole authority of the emperor but in cohesion around the one empire and one God:

…there was a single will with a free and honest zeal to serve the peace and consult the common good of all nations, entire provinces, innumerable cities, countless peoples, and the whole world, which formerly not even one city nor one group of citizens nor, what is worse, one household of brothers had been able to possess continually, moreover, if also when under the rule of Caesar these things came to pass, it is manifest that the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ had begun to illuminate this world with the brightest approbation. (3.8.6–7, 1:88–9)26

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