The last pagans of Rome
By: Alan Cameron.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199747276
Subjects: Christianity and other religions -- Roman; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Christianity and other religions -- Paganism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Paganism -- Relations -- Christianity; Emperors -- Rome; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pagans and polytheists; title: From Constantius to Theodosius; title: The frigidus; title: Pagan 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 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; title: The Historia Augusta.