Perpetua : athlete of God / Barbara K. Gold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gold, Barbara K., 1945- author.

Series:

Women in antiquity.

Women in antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perpetua, Saint, -203.

Perpetua.

Christian women saints--Biography.

Christian women saints.

Christian women martyrs--Biography.

Christian women martyrs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This work is an overview of the Christian martyr Perpetua's life and the cultural, religious, political, literary, social, and physical contexts in which she lived. It does not attempt to be a full biography of Perpetua because we do not have enough information about her. It discusses the narrative work in Latin, the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, composed by her and by her editor while she was awaiting execution, and its authenticity.

Contents:

Perpetua's Passio: text, authorship, authenticity

And I became male: gender and the athlete

A matter of genre and influence: the Passio and Greco-Roman pagan and Christian narratives

Carthage: pagan culture, religion, and society in the early empire

Carthage: the early Christian community

Perpetua's life: family (natal and Christian), education, and social status

The conditions of martyrdom in the Roman Empire

The Nachleben of Perpetua: her unwitting legacy.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-090531-X

0-19-090529-8