Perpetua: Athlete of God

ISBN-13: 9780195385458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

Barbara K. Gold

Opis

Perpetua was an early Christian martyr who died in Roman Carthage in 203 CE. She has attracted great interest for her narrative written in prison just before she went to her death in the amphitheater. Her story is steeped in mystery, and every aspect of her life and death has generated much controversy.

Recenzje

The book is thus a study not just of the historical Perpetua but of the literary one too; of the original woman and of the men who have successively rewritten her.

O autorze

Barbara K. Gold is Edward North Professor and Chair of Classics at Hamilton College. She is the editor of Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome, author of Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome, and co-editor of Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition and Roman Dining.