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Title:
The last pagans of Rome / Alan Cameron.
Author:
Cameron, Alan, 1938-
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Call Number:
BR170 .C36 2011
ISBN:
9780199747276
Physical Description:
x, 878 p. : ill. ; 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.
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