Thirtyfour newly commissioned chapters from international experts provide a comprehensive overview of recent approaches to statius, discuss the fundamental issues and themes of his poetry, and suggest new fruitful areas for research. We use cookies to offer you a better experience, personalize content, tailor advertising, provide social media features, and better understand the use of our services. Internet archive contributor internet archive language. Treasury of the holy fathers, in which the first book is the work of lactantius on the deaths of the persecutors latin. The origin and purpose of the persecution of ad 303, the journal of theological studies, volume 40, issue 1, 1 april 1989, pages 6694, s. The results were unfortunate for the understanding of lactantius.
Lucius caecilius firmianus lactantius trained as a rhetorician under arnobius the elder. Sep 24, 2012 the results were unfortunate for the understanding of lactantius. Pdf how far did lactantius go in the eulogy of constantine the. The kalends of january approached, at which day the consulship, for the ninth time, was to be offered to him. Brills companion to statius is the first companion volume to be published on arguably the most important roman poet of the flavian period. Le nourry cum emendationibus tum disquisitionibus criticis aucta. Bibliography of lactantius carleton college mafiadoc. These two men record two different accounts of the vision in 312. Do not many indications point to the natural suggestion of a third original edition, issued after the conversion of constantine. It is a treatise which could well be listed as outstanding in the field of popular apologetics of. A relation of the death of the primitive persecutors written originally. The minor works the fathers of the church, volume 54 on jstor.
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I relate all those things on the authority of wellinformed persons. Divinae institutiones, which was published in a first version between 304 and 311, expanded beginning in 324 by. The treatise, promised by lactantius in his major work, institutiones divinae 2. Or the questionable passages may be the interpolations of lactantius himself. That solemnity was performed on the twelfth of the kalends of december. Lucii cecilii liber ad donatum confessorem mortibus persecutorum.
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