Curated category
4th-century Romans
- EusebiusEusebius of Caesarea died on the 30th of May AD 339, and what he chose not to write may matter as much as what he did. In one of his own works he warns that…
- Augustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo was born on the 13th of November 354 in Thagaste, a small town in Roman North Africa that today is Souk Ahras, Algeria.
- Saint GeorgeSaint George died on the 23rd of April 303, beheaded at Lydda in Palestine after refusing to renounce his Christian faith before the Roman emperor Diocletian.
- PrudentiusAurelius Prudentius Clemens entered the world in 348 within the Roman province of Tarraconensis. This region now forms part of Northern Spain, though his…
- Gregory of NazianzusGregory of Nazianzus once compared himself to the Prophet Jonah, begging to be thrown overboard. "Seize me and throw me," he told a council of 150 bishops in…
- LactantiusLactantius, born Lucius Caecilius Firmianus around the year 250, came from Berber stock in North Africa and rose to become one of the most celebrated Latin…
- MacrobiusMacrobius Ambrosius Theodosius flourished around AD 400, and yet for centuries after his death, medieval scholars kept copying his books.
- JeromeJerome, the early Christian priest and scholar also known as Saint Jerome, once described crawling through the catacombs beneath Rome.
- ClaudianClaudian, the Latin name for the poet Claudius Claudianus, arrived in Rome from Alexandria in 394 with a mother tongue of Greek and an ambition that would…
- Ammianus MarcellinusAmmianus Marcellinus once described himself, in Latin, as "miles quondam et graecus" - a former soldier and a Greek. That self-description holds something…
- Mardonius (philosopher)Mardonius was a eunuch of Gothic origin who grew up as a slave in the household of Julius Julianus. This praetorian prefect of Licinius trained him from an…