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struck perhaps by the fact that, so far as names were concerned, Iovius
Maximinus was a tolerable imitation of Iupiter Optimus Maximus. Theoteknos
in importing the novel cult very probably designed to win the favour of his
imperial master. Qze^z'-Dionysiac rites practised in the name of Zeus would be
quite in the line of the profligate Iovius.
Alas for his calculations. A few pages further on Eusebios1 tells us what
happened:
' Theoteknos too was summoned by Justice, who had no intention of forgetting
the harm he did to Christians. On the strength of the xdanon2 that he had set
up at Antiocheia he expected to take life easily, and was in fact already
promoted by Maximinus to the post of governor. But Licinius had no sooner
set foot in the city of the Antiochenes than he ordered all impostors to be
brought in, and put the prophets and priests of the new-fangled xdanon to the
torture, asking them how they came to play such a lying part. Hard pressed by
the tortures, they could conceal the facts no longer, but explained that the whole
mystery was a fraud contrived by the wily Theoteknos. Thereupon Licinius
punished them all according to their deserts. He first condemned Theoteknos,
and then the partners of his imposture, to death, after inflicting upon them the
greatest possible torments.'
For all that, the cult of Zeus PMlios once started was not easily suppressed.
Fifty years later Julian wintered at Antiocheia (362—363 A.D.) and, as we gather
from his own Misopdgon, was diligent in visiting the temple of Zeus PMlios'i.
Fig. :oo6. Fig. 1007.
Monn. emp. rom? vii. 155 no. 134 fig., Gnecchi Medagl. Rom. ii. 132 no. 1 pi. 129, 5
roughly retouched). Another, with the same legend, had for obverse type the bare head
of Maximinus (Rasche Lex. Num. iv. 932, Suppl. iii. 163, Cohen Monn. emp. rom?
vii. 155 no. 135, Gnecchi Medagl. Rom. ii. 132 no. 2). One of his coppers, struck at
Antiocheia, ventures on a new title: rev. iovio propagat. ORBis terrarvm Maximinus,
with bay-wreath and toga, stands holding Victoria on a globe: to the right is a burning
altar; on either side of him, the letter A and a star; in the exergue, ant (Cohen Mom!,
emp. romr vii. 153 no. 130 fig.).
1 Euseb. hist. eccl. 9. n. 5 f.
2 For the implications of this term see now an excellent paper by Miss F. M. Bennett
'A study of the word ^.OANON ' in the Am. Journ. Arch. 1917 xxi. 8—21.
3 Ioul. misopog. p. 446, 10 ff. Hertlein 77 Zi'pctw tjksi vovfx-r]vla, K<xi 6 Kalcrap avdis els
<i>iXi'ou Aios' e2¥a 7/ ir&yKoivos eoprq, /ecu 6 Kalcrap els to tt)s T^xr/s £pxeral rip-evos. eirLax^v
8e rr\v dwocppdSa irdXtv is $i\iov Albs rds evxds avaXa/x(3dvet /card to. Trdrpia. k<xl ris dv^erat
ToaavraKLS els iepd (poirwvros Kaicrapos, e^bv aTraif r) Sis evox^elv rots deols, k.t.X. -Cp. Liban.
or. 1. 122 (i. 1. 14r, r9 fF. Foerster) rjice 5e irore els Aios $t\i'oi/ dvaoiv k.t.\.
struck perhaps by the fact that, so far as names were concerned, Iovius
Maximinus was a tolerable imitation of Iupiter Optimus Maximus. Theoteknos
in importing the novel cult very probably designed to win the favour of his
imperial master. Qze^z'-Dionysiac rites practised in the name of Zeus would be
quite in the line of the profligate Iovius.
Alas for his calculations. A few pages further on Eusebios1 tells us what
happened:
' Theoteknos too was summoned by Justice, who had no intention of forgetting
the harm he did to Christians. On the strength of the xdanon2 that he had set
up at Antiocheia he expected to take life easily, and was in fact already
promoted by Maximinus to the post of governor. But Licinius had no sooner
set foot in the city of the Antiochenes than he ordered all impostors to be
brought in, and put the prophets and priests of the new-fangled xdanon to the
torture, asking them how they came to play such a lying part. Hard pressed by
the tortures, they could conceal the facts no longer, but explained that the whole
mystery was a fraud contrived by the wily Theoteknos. Thereupon Licinius
punished them all according to their deserts. He first condemned Theoteknos,
and then the partners of his imposture, to death, after inflicting upon them the
greatest possible torments.'
For all that, the cult of Zeus PMlios once started was not easily suppressed.
Fifty years later Julian wintered at Antiocheia (362—363 A.D.) and, as we gather
from his own Misopdgon, was diligent in visiting the temple of Zeus PMlios'i.
Fig. :oo6. Fig. 1007.
Monn. emp. rom? vii. 155 no. 134 fig., Gnecchi Medagl. Rom. ii. 132 no. 1 pi. 129, 5
roughly retouched). Another, with the same legend, had for obverse type the bare head
of Maximinus (Rasche Lex. Num. iv. 932, Suppl. iii. 163, Cohen Monn. emp. rom?
vii. 155 no. 135, Gnecchi Medagl. Rom. ii. 132 no. 2). One of his coppers, struck at
Antiocheia, ventures on a new title: rev. iovio propagat. ORBis terrarvm Maximinus,
with bay-wreath and toga, stands holding Victoria on a globe: to the right is a burning
altar; on either side of him, the letter A and a star; in the exergue, ant (Cohen Mom!,
emp. romr vii. 153 no. 130 fig.).
1 Euseb. hist. eccl. 9. n. 5 f.
2 For the implications of this term see now an excellent paper by Miss F. M. Bennett
'A study of the word ^.OANON ' in the Am. Journ. Arch. 1917 xxi. 8—21.
3 Ioul. misopog. p. 446, 10 ff. Hertlein 77 Zi'pctw tjksi vovfx-r]vla, K<xi 6 Kalcrap avdis els
<i>iXi'ou Aios' e2¥a 7/ ir&yKoivos eoprq, /ecu 6 Kalcrap els to tt)s T^xr/s £pxeral rip-evos. eirLax^v
8e rr\v dwocppdSa irdXtv is $i\iov Albs rds evxds avaXa/x(3dvet /card to. Trdrpia. k<xl ris dv^erat
ToaavraKLS els iepd (poirwvros Kaicrapos, e^bv aTraif r) Sis evox^elv rots deols, k.t.X. -Cp. Liban.
or. 1. 122 (i. 1. 14r, r9 fF. Foerster) rjice 5e irore els Aios $t\i'oi/ dvaoiv k.t.\.