The last pagans of Rome / Alan Cameron.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cameron, Alan, 1938-2017
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Christianity and other religions > Roman.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Christianity and other religions > Paganism > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Paganism > Relations > Christianity.
Emperors > Rome.
Physical Description:x, 878 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Pagans and polytheists
  • From Constantius to Theodosius
  • The frigidus
  • Pagan priests and initiates
  • Pagan converts
  • Pagan writers
  • Macrobius and the 'pagan' culture of his age
  • The poem against the pagans
  • Other Christian 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
  • The Historia Augusta.