Información General

• Autores: Alan Cameron
• Editores: Oxford University Press
• Año de publicación: 2011
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-0-19-974727-6
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Reseñas

• Ha sido reseñado en:

  • CAMERON, Alan. «The Last Pagans of Rome». Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 878 pp.

    Javier Andrés Pérez (res.)

    Studia historica. Historia antigua, ISSN 0213-2052, Nº 29, 2011, págs. 355-357

Resumen

• Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity. It is indeed widely believed that a largely pagan aristocracy remained a powerful and active force well into the fifth century, sponsoring pagan literary circles, patronage of the classics, and propaganda for the old cults in art and literature. The main focus of much modern scholarship on the end of paganism in the West has been on its supposed stubborn resistance to Christianity. The dismantling of this romantic myth is one of the main goals of Alan Cameron's book. Actually, the book argues, Western paganism petered out much earlier and more rapidly than hitherto assumed.

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