RT Review
T1 Perpetua’s Passions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis. Edited by Jan N. Bremmer and Marco Formisano
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 64
IS 1
SP 252
OP 255
A1 Downing, Francis Gerald 1935-
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783732040
AB A young Roman woman around 203 ce in North Africa writes about herself, a nursing mother, as she awaits trial for professing Christianity, rebuffs her despairing father, and accepts condemnation to face wild beasts in the arena, encouraged by companions and especially by dreams vividly narrated, leaving her brief memoir for another to add an account of her eagerly awaited death. Such writing, with a further, editorial, voice, is unprecedented, and without successor. The narrative holds most readers, although widely ignored by classicists (even those alert to still later Augustine).
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/fls156