Maternus Cynegius
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Maternus Cynegius was a Roman bureaucrat and close confidant of the emperor Theodosius I. He held the offices of praetorian prefect of the East and consul, and has been widely blamed by historians for
Replica of Theodosius' Missorium in the National Museum of Roman Art, Mérida.
Statue of the Greek goddess Aphrodite with a cross carved into its forehead. Cynegius was a staunch proponent of the eradication of paganism in the Roman Empire.
Libanius
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Libanius was a teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school in the Eastern Roman Empire. His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a
Maternus Cynegius
…then in, Egypt. A similar story is told by the Consularia Constantinopolitana, a Latin-language almanac issued at Constantinople. The Antiochene rhetor Libanius, a pagan and contemporary of events, reports a series of outrages committed against pagan shrines in Syria during Cynegius's term of office, and…
Libanius as imagined in an eighteenth-century woodcut