Apology : De Spectaculis / Tertullian ; with an English translation by T.R. Glover. Octavius / Minucius Felix ; with an English translation by Gerald H. Rendall.
| Author/creator | Tertullian author. |
| Other author | Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley), 1869-1943 translator. |
| Other author | Rendall, Gerald Henry, 1851-1945, translator. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL250/1931/volume.xml |
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| Series | Loeb Classical Library ; 250 Loeb classical library ; 250. ^A467228 |
| Abstract | Tertullian (c. 150-222 CE) founded a Christian Latin language and literature, strove to unite the demands of the Bible with Church practice, defended Christianity, attacked heresy, and pondered morality. Octavius by Minucius, an early Christian writer of unknown date, is a debate between belief and unbelief that depicts Roman religion and society. The African Q. Septimus Florens Tertullianus (ca. 150-222 CE), the great Christian writer, was born a soldier's son at Carthage, educated in Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and medicine, studied law and became a pleader, remaining a clever and often tortuous arguer. At Rome he became a learned and militant Christian. After a visit to churches in Greece (and Asia Minor?) he returned to Carthage and in his writings there founded a Christian Latin language and literature, toiling to fuse enthusiasm with reason; to unite the demands of the Bible with the practice of the Church; and to continue to vindicate the Church's possession of the true doctrine in the face of unbelievers, Jews, Gnostics, and others. In some of his many works he defended Christianity, in others he attacked heretical people and beliefs; in others he dealt with morals. In this volume we present Apologeticus and De Spectaculis. Of Minucius, an early Christian writer of unknown date, we have only Octavius, a vigorous and readable debate between an unbeliever and a Christian friend of Minucius, Octavius Ianuarius, a lawyer sitting on the seashore at Ostia. Minucius himself acts as presiding judge. Octavius wins the argument. The whole work presents a picture of social and religious conditions in Rome, apparently about the end of the second century. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language | Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Apology. De Spectaculis. Minucius Felix: Octavius. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1931 9780674992764 |
| Other title | De Spectaculis. |
| ISBN | print version |
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