The Last Pagans of Rome

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.

Auteur
Alan Cameron is Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of Latin at Columbia University. He is the winner of the 2013 Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies and Archaeology of the British Academy.

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A magisterial reevaluation of long-held assumptions about pagan and Christian culture in the late antique West.

Contenu

• 1: Pagans and Polytheists

• 2: From Constantius to Theodosius

• 3: The Frigidus

• 4: Pagan Priests and Initiates

• 5: Pagan Converts

• 6: Pagan Writers

• 7: Macrobius and the "Pagan" Culture of his Age

• 8: The Poem against the Pagans

• 9: Other Christian Invectives

• 10: The Real Circle of Symmachus

• 11: The "Pagan" Literary Revival

• 12: Correctors and Critics I

• 13: Correctors and Critics II

• 14: The Livian Revival

• 15: Greek Texts and Latin Translation

• 16: Pagan Scholarship: Vergil and his Commentators

• 17: The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus I

• 18: The Annales of Nicomachus Flavianus II

• 19. Classical Revivals

• 20: The Historia Augusta

• Conclusion

• Appendix: The Poem against the Pagans