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A good overview from which the Syrian example is taken is Dossey.

14 Rapp, p.245.

15 See Stead, Chapter Sixteen, ‘Christ as God and Man’.

16 Quoted in Millar, A Greek Roman Empire, p.39, from Socrates’ Ecclesiastical

History VII.29.5.

17 Millar, A Greek Roman Empire, p.176. The law is to be found in the

Theodosian Code XVI.5.66.

18 Quoted in ibid., p.180.

19 This is a point made by Gray. I have depended heavily on his account. See

Wessel, which shows how Cyril skilfully exploited Athanasius to win support.

20 Quoted from varied original sources in Millar, A Greek Roman Empire, p.186.

21 Cameron, p.206.

22 In one of the most remarkable letters to survive from this period, Galla

Placidia, the daughter of Theodosius I, who was now married to the emperor of

the west, Constantius III, passed on Leo’s concerns to Theodosius II’s pious

sister, Pulcheria, who exercised great influence in the eastern court: ‘Therefore,

may your clemency, in accordance with the Catholic faith, once again, now in

this same way share in our objectives, so whatever was done at that disorderly

and most wretched council [of Ephesus in 449] should by every effort be

subverted.’ She put in a special plea that the authority of the Bishop of Rome be

respected in doctrinal matters. Millar, A Greek Roman Empire, p.38. It is to be

found in the Letters of Leo, 58.

23 Stead, pp.193—4. This book provides an excellent introduction to some of

the major philosophical issues exposed by the coming of orthodoxy.

24 Chadwick, pp.607—8.

25 Gray, p.222.

26 Quoted in MacMullen, Voting About God in Early Church Councils, p.32.

27 Quoted in Chuvin, p.133.

28 See Fouracre, pp.104—5.

29 Wildberg, p.316.

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