For 10 points each, answer the following about conflicts between Christian and Pagan thought in the Roman Empire.
[10m] This third-century CE emperor earned his epithet by converting from Christianity to Neoplatonism. This emperor died at the Battle of Samarra while invading the Sassanid Empire.
ANSWER: Julian the Apostate [or Flavius Claudius Julianus]
[10e] This emperor’s closure of the Platonic academy is often seen as the end of Neoplatonism. Procopius’s Secret History is an important source on this Byzantine emperor and lawgiver, who is known as “the Great.”
ANSWER: Justinian I [or Justinian the Great]
[10h] In Alexandria, this Pagan philosopher died at the hands of an angry Christian mob after being accused of bewitching Orontes. This polymath may have edited parts of Ptolemy’s Almagest.
ANSWER: Hypatia of Alexandria
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