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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Cameron |
ISBN: | 9780199747276 019974727X 9780199959709 0199959706 |
OCLC Number: | 1026110247 |
Notes: | Índice. |
Description: | x, 878 p. : il. ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Pagans and polytheists -- From Constantius to Theodosius -- The Frigidus -- Priests and initiates -- Pagan converts -- Pagan writers -- Macrobius and the "pagan" culture of his age -- The poem against the pagans -- Other Christian verse invectives -- The real circle of Symmachus -- The "pagan" literary revival -- Correctors and critics I -- Correctors and critics II -- The Livian revival -- Greek texts and Latin translation -- Pagan scholarship : Vergil and his commentators -- The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus I -- The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus II -- Classical revivals and "pagan" art -- The Historia Augusta -- Appendix, The Poem against the pagans. |
Responsibility: | Alan Cameron. |
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The Last Pagans of Rome is a book of a generation. A model of erudition and integrity of argument, it is also a book that will be with us for many generations to come. * Peter Brown, New York Review of Books * Read more...
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