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Greek and Latin narratives about the ancient martyrs / edited by Éric Rebillard.
- Title
- Greek and Latin narratives about the ancient martyrs / edited by Éric Rebillard.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Additional Authors
- Rebillard, Éric
- Description
- viii, 403 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs provides a collection, with facing-page translations, of Greek and Latin Christian martyr narratives dating from the first four centuries CE. While Herbert Musurillo's authoritative collection The Acts of the Martyrs (1972) aimed to gather the most 'authentic' and 'reliable' accounts of early Christian martyrdom, Eric Rebillard argues that modern scholarship instead calls for texts which attest to the contexts in which the memories of the martyrs were constructed. As such, this extensive volume provides a textual basis for the study of martyr narratives without making assumptions about their date of composition or their authenticity. It focuses on the ancient martyrs executed before 260, and examines which of their texts was known to Eusebius or to Augustine. Introductions describe the hagiographical dossier of each martyr with crucial information about the manuscript tradition of the different texts and provide a terminus ante quem for their composition based only on external evidence. --! From book jacket.
- Series Statement
- Oxford early Christian texts
- Uniform Title
- Oxford early Christian texts
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-384) and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Greek and Latin text with parallel English translation.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Apollonius -- Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice -- Pionius of Smyrna -- Polycarp of Smyrna -- The martyrs of Lyon and Vienne -- Marian and James -- Cyprian of Carthage -- Fructuosus of Tarragona and his companions -- Montanus, Lucius, and their companions -- Perpetua, Felicity and their companions -- The Scilitan martyrs.
- ISBN
- 9780198739579
- 0198739575
- 9780198848875
- 0198848870
- LCCN
- 2016946822
- 3279523
- OCLC
- 964647992
- SCSB-11613806
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library