Un testo sugli dèi e sul mondo del paganesimo tardo-antico
Subtitle: il Trattato di Salustio : osservazioni e confronti
By: Enrico Schiavo-Lena
Edition: 1. ed.
Series: Didasko
Publisher: Kimerik
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Patti
Language: ita
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9788860969873
Subjects: Paganism; Early works to 1800
Description: This work is devoted to a fundamental late-antique pagan text of Neoplatonic influence: De diis et mundo, a brief manual of Neoplatonic piety that has been attributed to Emperor Julian's friend Saturninus Sallustius Secundus. The text was written during Emperor Julian's religious reforms, a time when Julian was attempting to revive traditional Greco-Roman polytheism in order to combat a Christianity that was growing ever stronger. This work addresses Sallustius' conception of the gods, providence, eschatology, and metempsychosis. It ends with a brief look at the nature of paganism after Julian and Sallustius.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-181).
Table of contents: title: Prefazione; title: Il problema dell'identità dell'autore; title: La tradizione manoscritta e gli studi; title: Il contesto dell'opera: la Riforma religiosa di Giuliano; title: La concezione del divino; title: La provvidenza; title: La trasmigrazione delle anime e l'escatologia; title: Il Paganismo dopo Giuliano.