Lactantius
Roman Christian author (c. 250 - c. 325)
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- Writers rank#113
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Lived 240–320, aged 80
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The early Christian apologist who sold the faith to skeptics with prose so polished that Renaissance readers nicknamed him the "Christian Cicero" — and may have written the era's most curious poem about an undying bird.
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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius lived from roughly 250 to 325, spanning the final decades of Roman persecution and the dawn of imperial Christianity. His major work, the Institutiones Divinae, argued the case for Christian truth to a pagan audience with rhetorical skill sharp enough to win him a place at the court of Constantine I, where he became advisor on the emperor's emerging religious policy and tutor to Constantine's son Crispus. That eloquence earned him centuries of admirers: humanists in the Renaissance returned to his apologetics and gave him his Ciceronian nickname. A poem ca…
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