part 4 Flashcards
Heresy Tertullian adopted at the end of his life
Montanism
What Tertullian is best known for
defenses of Christians against pagan persecutions
Tertullian’s work to Christians in prison awaiting execution
Ad Martyras
Tertullian’s major invective, in 5 books
In Marcion
Tertullian’s major work, addressed to provincial governors—calls for protection for Christians from the attacks of the populace
Apologeticus
Tertullian warns Scapula, governor of Africa, to leave Christians alone
Ad Scapulam
Whose quote “We multiply every time we are mowed down by you; the blood of Christians is the seed.”
Tertullian
Tertullian’s attack on deviations from Rome
On the Prescription of the heretics
Other works of Tertullian
On the Dress of Women, On Patience, On Prayer, On Modesty, on the Chaplet, on Idolatry, etc.
Tertullian defends the corporeality of the soul against the Gnostics
De Anima/On the Soul
Defends the doctrine of the Trinity against Praxeas
Tertullian’s Contra Praxeas
Author of the Octavius, a Latin apology for Christianity
Minucius Felix
Major work of Minucius Felix, a Latin apology for Christianity designed to refute attacks by Fronto
Octavius
Author of the Octavius
Minucius Felix
Major work of Minucius Felix
Octavius
Inspiration for Minucius Felix’ Octavius
Cicero’s De Natura Deorum
Lost work of Minucius Felix
De Fato
Interlocutors in Minucius Felix’ Octavius
Minucius acts as an umpire while his friends Caecilius Natalis and Octavius Januaris debate Christianity
Lesser known bishop of Carthage, born a pagan and served as a rhetorician until he converted
Cyprian
Martyred under the regin of Valerian while protecting Christians from the empire—had already escaped the persecutions of Decius
Cyprian
Bishop of Carthage, lacked the intellectualforce and eloquence of Tertullian
Cyprian
Cyprian’s work on the unity of the Church
De Unitate Ecclessiae
Cyprian’s work on those who had lapsed during the persecutions
De Lapsis
Cyprian draws on Minucius Felix to argue that educatedmen should turn to the Church
Ad Donatum
Cyprian’s work on the attacks of the pagans and divine punishment
Ad Demetrianum
Major works of Cyprian
De Unitate Ecclesiae, De Lapsis, Ad Donatum, Ad Demetrianum
First Christian writer to write exclusively in Latin
Novatian
Had a serious argument with Cyprian over treatment of Lapsi
Novatian
Major work of Novatian
De Trinitate
First recorded Christian poet
Commodian
Commodian’s two books of 80 poems total, first attacks pagan and Jews, second describes varieties of Christians
Instructiones
Works of Commodian
Instructiones and Carmen Apologeticum
Commodian’s historical work, from Israel to incarnation to anti-Christ
Carmen Apologeticum
Massive collection of poems from Africa, authors are unknown
Anthologia Latina
Most famous sequence of the Anthologia Latina
Pervigilium Veneris
Possible author of the Pervigilium Veneris
Publius Annius Florus
93 lines in trochaic tetrameters, depicts a festival for Venus on Sicily
Pervigilium Veneris
Refrain of the Pervigilium Veneris
Cras amet qui numquam amavit, quique amavit cras amet (Let him love tomorrow who has never loved, and let him who has loved love tomorrow)
Author of the brief hexameter poem De Concubitu Martis et Venis found in the Anthologia Latina
Reposianus
Author of the Iudicium Coci et Pistoris Iudice Volcano, found in the Anthologia Latina; satiric poetry, with a cook and a baker arguing over the superiorities of their callings
Vespta
Compositions made by use of whole or half-verses taken from classical poems and stitched together in such a way that the original meaning is completely changed
cento
Best known author of centos, takes up the subject of Seneca’s Medea using Vergilian hexameters
Hosidius Geta
Works of Terentius Maurus
De Litteris, De Syllabis, De Metris
Rather gry drammarian of the second/third century, works include De Litteris, De Syllabis, and De Metris
Terentius Maurus
Important figure in the court of the Severans and the Gordians, Gordian I wanted him to be tutor to his son, Gordian II; had a library of over 62,000 volumes
Serenus Sammonicus
Work of Serenus Sammonicus, includes sixty prescriptions
Liber Medicanalis
Major work of Arnobius
Adversus Nationes
Author of Adversus Nationes, written to allay his bishop’s suspicions of his bona fides after his conversion to Christianity
Arnobius
Arnobius’ work, written to allay his bishop’s suspicions of his bona fides following his conversion to Christianity
Adversus Nationes
Arnobius’ pupil
Lactantius
Length of Arnobius’ Adversus Nationes
7 books
The “Christian Cicero”
Lactantius
Lactantius’ advancement under Diocletian
Diocletian made Lactantius professor of rhetoric at Nicomedia
Lactantius’ advancement under Constantine
Constantine appointed Lactantius tutor to his son Crispus
Tutor of Constantine’s son Crispus
Lactantius
Lactantius’ earliest work, defense on the doctrine of providence
De Opificio Dei (On the Handiwork of God)
Lactantius’ work aiming to justify Christianity to educated minds; dedicated to Constantine
Divinae Institutiones
Dedicatee of Lactantius’ Divinae Instituiones
Constantine
Length of Lactantius’ Divinae Institutiones
7 books
Lactantius’ work on God’s wrath
De Ira Dei
Dubious work of Lactantius, celebrates with passionate exulation the downfall of the emperors who persecuted Christians
De Mortibus Persecutorum
Lactantius’ work describing a voyage from Africa to Bithynia, also a grammatical treatise
Hodoeporicum
Counseled by St. Ambrose
Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius
Urged Gratian to remove the altar of victory from the Senate house
St. Ambrose
Elected Bishop of Milan in AD 374 while still unbaptized
St. Ambrose
Famous bishop of Milan
St. Ambrose
Father of Church Song
St. Ambrose
Ambrose’s synthesis of Christian doctrine, borrows from Cicero’s De Officiis
De Officiis Ministrorum
Sermons of St. Ambrose
Hexameron
Authors of work including: On Virgins, On Virginity, On Widows, On Faith, On the Holy Spirit
St. Ambrose
First considerable Christian poet in the Latin tongue; a Spanish priest, he wrote Books of the Evangelists
Juvencus
Work of Juvencus
Books of the Evangelists
Pupil of Ausonius, consul in 378, governor of Campania, wrote fifty epistulae (to Jerome, Augustine, etc.)
Paulinus of Nola
Only extant comedy from the empire
Querolus sive Aulularia
What the author of the Querolus sive Aulularia declared
it was to be read “fabellis atque mensis,” in places other than the theatre
Last great Christian poet/greatest Christian Latin poet
Prudentius
Collections of Prudentius’ lyrical poems
Cathemerinon and Peristaphanon
Serves as an introduction to Prudentius’ entire collection of works
Oraefatio
Prudentius’ working venerating martyrs, especially Spanish
Peristaphanon
Prudentius’ working refuting a series of errors on the Trinity and the divinity of Christ
Apotheosis
Prudentius’ hexameter work on the origin of sin
Hamartigenia
Prudentius’ most famous poem, an epic where personified virtues like Modesty and Patience wage a series of epic combats with speeches
Psychomania
Prudentius’ work refuting Symmachus’ Altar of Victory plea 20 years earlier
Contra Symmachum
Three early years of Jerome’s life
spent in the desert of Chalcis, where he learned Hebrew.
Jerome’s famous dream
accused of being Ciceronian, not Christian
Intimate friend of Pope Damasus
St. Jerome
St. Jerome’s Latin translation of the bible, took 20 years to finish
the Vulgate
Writing period of Jerome’s Vulgate
20 years
Authors of De Viris Illustribus
Nepos, Suetonius, and Jerome
Jerome’s translation of Eusebius’ Chronological Canons, dealing with chronological system
Chronicon
