The last pagans of Rome

Pagans and polytheists -- From Constantius to Theodosius -- The frigidus -- Pagan priests and initiates -- Pagan converts -- Pagan writers -- Macrobius and the 'pagan' culture of his age -- The poem against the pagans -- Other Christian invectives -- The real circle of Symmachus -- The �...

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1. Verfasser: Cameron, Alan (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Oxford u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 2011
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Zusammenfassung:Pagans and polytheists -- From Constantius to Theodosius -- The frigidus -- Pagan priests and initiates -- Pagan converts -- Pagan writers -- Macrobius and the 'pagan' culture of his age -- The poem against the pagans -- Other Christian invectives -- The real circle of Symmachus -- The 'pagan' literary revival -- Correctors and critics I -- Correctors and critics II -- The 'Livian revival' -- Greek texts and Latin translation -- Pagan scholarship : Vergil and his commentators -- The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus I -- The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus II -- Classical revivals -- The Historia Augusta.
Pagans and polytheists -- From Constantius to Theodosius -- The Frigidus -- Priests and initiates -- Pagan converts -- Pagan writers -- Macrobius and the "pagan" culture of his age -- The poem against the pagans -- Other Christian verse invectives -- The real circle of Symmachus -- The "pagan" literary revival -- Correctors and critics I -- Correctors and critics II -- The Livian revival -- Greek texts and Latin translation -- Pagan scholarship : Vergil and his commentators -- The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus I -- The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus II -- Classical revivals and "pagan" art -- The Historia Augusta -- Appendix, The Poem against the pagans
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 809 - 854) and index
Beschreibung:X, 878 S.
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26 cm
ISBN:9780199747276
978-0-19-974727-6
019974727X
0-19-974727-X