Antiquus error
Subtitle: les ultimes feux de la résistance païenne : scripta varia augmentés de cinq études inédites
By: Stéphane Ratti
Contributors: Carrié, Jean-Michel
Series: Bibliothèque de l'Antiquité tardive -- 14.; Bibliothèque de l'Antiquité tardive -- 14.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: fre
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9782503532615
Subjects: Historiography; Scriptores historiae Augustae; History; Church history
Other titles: Ultimes feux de la résistance païenne; Scripta varia augmentés de cinq études inédites
Description: "Antiquus error: was the term that Christians [sic] polemicists used to describe ancient polytheism in its various forms. The book collects thirty papers published between 1996 and 2007 and five unpublished studies. Five sections are devoted, successively, to the historians of the fourth century AD: to Jerome as an historian, to the work of Ammianus Marcellinus, to the Historia Augusta and the poets Claudien and Rutilius Namatianus. The book focuses on the opposition between pagans and christians from 370 to 417. The discovery by Stéphane Ratti of the identity of the anonymous author of the Historia Augusta leads to a reevaluation of the opposition undertaken by the ancient religion's followers against the new ideas and the emperor Theodosius"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.