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The last pagans of Rome / Alan Cameron.

By: Cameron, Alan, 1938-2017Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2011. Description: x, 878 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9780199747276 (acidfree paper); 019974727X (acidfree paper)Subject(s): Christianity and other religions -- Roman | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | Christianity and other religions -- Paganism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Paganism -- Relations -- Christianity | Emperors -- Rome | Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.DDDC classification: 261.2/20937 LOC classification: BR170 | .C36 2011Online resources: Book review (H-Net)
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.
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Shelf 43 - Main Room 		J7 CAMER 28678 Not for loan BOOKS*000000021594

Includes bibliographical references (p. 809-854) and index.

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.