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Re-Appropriating 'Marvellous Fables'

Re-Appropriating 'Marvellous Fables'

Autor: Pretila, Noel Wayne

Wydane przez James Clarke & Co

English 182 stron 2014 ISBN 9780227902684
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Edwin Hatch provided a colourful portrait of the religious world to which Justin Martyr belonged: The main subject-matter of ... literary education [amongst the pagans] was the poets. ... They were read as we read the Bible. They were committed to memory. The minds of men were saturated with them. A quotation from Homer or from a tragic poet was apposite on all occasions and in every kind of society (The Influence of Greek Ideas on Christianity, 1957). So when some of these pagans converted to Christianity in Justin's day, is it reasonable to assume that they simply

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