The last pagans of Rome
By: Alan Cameron
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 878
ISBN-13: 9780199747276
Subjects: Relations; Christianity; Roman; Church history; Paganism; Emperors; Christianity and other religions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 809-854) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pagans and polytheists; title: From Constantius to Theodosius; title: The Frigidus; title: Priests and initiates; title: Pagan converts; title: Pagan writers; title: Macrobius and the "pagan" culture of his age; title: The poem against the pagans; title: Other Christian verse invectives; title: The real circle of Symmachus; title: The "pagan" literary revival; title: Correctors and critics I; title: Correctors and critics II; title: The Livian revival; title: Greek texts and Latin translation; title: Pagan scholarship : Vergil and his commentators; title: The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus I; title: The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus II; title: Classical revivals and "pagan" art; title: The Historia Augusta; title: Appendix, The Poem against the pagans.