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Perpetua - Athlete of God (Hardcover)
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Perpetua - Athlete of God (Hardcover)
Series: Women in Antiquity
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Perpetua was an early Christian martyr who died in Roman Carthage
in 203 CE, along with several fellow martyrs, including one other
woman, Felicitas. She has attracted great interest for two main
reasons: she was one of the earliest martyrs, especially female
martyrs, about whom we have any knowledge, and she left a narrative
written in prison just before she went to her death in the
amphitheater. Her narrative is embedded in a tripartite telling of
the arrest and deaths of these martyrs, the Passio Sanctarum
Perpetuae et Felicitatis. The other two parts of her tale were
written by Saturus, a fellow martyr and probably her teacher, and a
nameless editor or confessor, who introduces her circumstances and
group and then tells of her death after she stops writing. Her
story is steeped in mystery, and every aspect of her life and death
has generated much controversy. Some do not believe that she
herself could have written the narrative: the circumstances of her
imprisonment and the limitations of her ability to write such a
rhetorically complex tale are inconceivable. Some believe that her
editor was none other then Tertullian, the famous 2nd-3rd century
church father and Perpetua's fellow north African. Some, including
Augustine, wonder why the feast day was named only for Perpetua and
Felicitas and not for her fellow male martyrs. Some believe that
these martyr tales were largely fabricated or constructed in order
to generate publicity for the early Christians. This book will
investigate and try to make sense of all aspects of Perpetua's
life, death, and circumstances: her family and life in Carthage,
Christians and Romans in Carthage and in the Roman empire in this
period, the comparisons of martyrs to athletes, the influence of
these martyr tales upon the Acts of the Apostles and the Greek
novel, the reactions of later church fathers like Augustine to her
story and her popularity, and the gendering of this text.
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