Perpetua's Passions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae Et Felicitatis

By Marco Formisano and Jan N. Bremmer

Perpetua's Passions is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction and epilogue: the so-called Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic works of antiquity, which the present volume examines from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical viewpoints follow upon a newly edited text and English translation (by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams). This innovative treatment by a number of distinguished scholars not only complements its unique subject, but constitutes a kind of laboratory of new approaches to ancient texts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199561885
• ISBN13: 9780199561889
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"