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Lactantius: Divine Institutes (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians) by with an introduction and notes by Anthony Bowen and Peter Garnsey is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The Divine Institutes of Lactantius was a vigorous riposte to pagan criticism and persecution of Christianity, which came to a head in the "Great" Persecution of Diocletian in the early fourth century AD. This edition has been prepared with students and scholars of intellectual history in mind, but it will also appeal to those concerned with ecclesiastical history and patristics, and to anyone interested in tracing the impact of classical philosophy and literature on an early Christian thinker.
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- Author
- with an introduction and notes by Anthony Bowen and Peter Garnsey
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780853239888
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Christian, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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