Title: Antiquus error
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 The book collects thirty papers published between 1996 and 2007 and five unpublished studies.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.
Subjects: Historiography, Scriptores historiae Augustae, History, Church history, Jerome, saint, -419 or 420, Ammianus marcellinus, Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Rome, historiography
Places: Rome
People: Ammianus Marcellinus, Claudius Rutilius Namatianus (5th cent), Jerome Saint (d. 419 or 20)
Time periods: Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Empire, 284-476