{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2003.tlg008.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2003.tlg008.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2003.tlg008.local001","title":"Εἰς τὴν μητέρα τῶν θεῶν","titleGreek":"Εἰς τὴν μητέρα τῶν θεῶν","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Julian the Emperor","authorityName":"Flavius Claudius JULIANUS Imperator","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2003-flavius-claudius-julianus-imperator/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2003-flavius-claudius-julianus-imperator/","editors":["Wilmer Cave Wright"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"The Works of the Emperor Julian","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann","place":"London","date":"1913","volume":"1","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/worksofemperorj01juli/page/442/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Julian The Emperor. 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