Latin epics of the New Testament Juvencus, Sedulius, Arator

Exploring the way in which early Christians engaged with the Roman intellectual elite and its sophisticated Graeco-Roman tradition, this book examines the works of Juvencus, Sedulius and Arator, and shows how they repackaged the New Testament as epic, to try to make a bridge between two very differe...

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Main Author: Green, Roger
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006, 2006
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