Roman Virtue in the Early Christian Thought of Lactantius

Known since the Renaissance as the "e;Christian Cicero,"e; Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was a professor of Latin rhetoric, Christian apologist, and theologian at the court of Emperor Constantine. In this historical study, Jason M. Gehrke examines the central notion ofAvirtusAin Lactantius's major work,AThe Divine Institutes of the Christian Religion. This book begins by tracing the rec...