International audienceThe usual attribution of the Carmen contra paganos to Pope Damasius implies that the target of this Pagan-bashing piece must be Praetextatus. However, not all of the arguments for this authorship are airtight. Through a new reading of lines 112-114 marshalling a previously neglected snippet of Lactantius, we suggest that Symmachus, far from being Praetextatus’ (political) heir, came in fact from the harlot Flora. The true target of the Carmen contra paganos would actually be none other than Nicomachus Flavianus Senior in the broad context of the polemics between Christians and Pagans after the Frigidus in September 394.L'attribution de la paternité du Carmen contra paganos à Damase a pour conséquence logique l'identifi...
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The debate opposing Mettius Fufetius and Tullus Hostilius is anything but a mere scholarly controver...
This study investigates the late antique cultural background out of which the allusive program of Se...
In his Contra Symmachum, probably written in 404, Prudentius, a poet of triumphant Christianism, att...
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Julius Firmicus Maternus, author of De Errore Profanarum Religionum and Mathesis, is an important b...
The De Pallio is regarded as a difficult work. And yes, it is. However, for anybody who agrees to re...
The article aims to explore the use of Heraclitus’ fr. 52 D.-K. in Late antique religious competitio...
Patristics scholars and historians have tended to ignore Book 7 (De vita beata) of Lactantius’ Divin...
The work Galactionis et Epistemes Passiones clearly alludes to the novels of Achilles Tatius and Hel...
Countless fragments of texts run through the apologetic sums composed by Lactance and Eusebius of Ca...
Against the conception of a pacified late antiquity in which Christianity naturally integrates itsel...
International audienceCato the Elder’s nouitas already was a topos at the end of the Republic, just ...
The debate opposing Mettius Fufetius and Tullus Hostilius is anything but a mere scholarly controver...
This study investigates the late antique cultural background out of which the allusive program of Se...
In his Contra Symmachum, probably written in 404, Prudentius, a poet of triumphant Christianism, att...
PhD ThesisPrudentius' Contra Symmachum contains a refutation of Symmachus' plea for the retaining o...
No other document so clearly and dramatically illustrates the death throes of Roman paganism in its ...
According to some scholars, the Bellum Ciuile of Pétronius could be a parody of the Punica of Silius...
This paper aims at proving that Caesar is much more present in Sallust’s Catilina than it would appe...
Julius Firmicus Maternus, author of De Errore Profanarum Religionum and Mathesis, is an important b...
The De Pallio is regarded as a difficult work. And yes, it is. However, for anybody who agrees to re...
The article aims to explore the use of Heraclitus’ fr. 52 D.-K. in Late antique religious competitio...
Patristics scholars and historians have tended to ignore Book 7 (De vita beata) of Lactantius’ Divin...
The work Galactionis et Epistemes Passiones clearly alludes to the novels of Achilles Tatius and Hel...
Countless fragments of texts run through the apologetic sums composed by Lactance and Eusebius of Ca...
Against the conception of a pacified late antiquity in which Christianity naturally integrates itsel...
International audienceCato the Elder’s nouitas already was a topos at the end of the Republic, just ...
The debate opposing Mettius Fufetius and Tullus Hostilius is anything but a mere scholarly controver...
This study investigates the late antique cultural background out of which the allusive program of Se...