Reviews

`It is the revised version of a doctoral thesis presented at Edinburgh in 1985, and as the first monograph on Arnobius in English marks a watershed in the study of the author. ... The many-faceted erudition of Dr Simmons will be a substantial help to those who hope to sharpen appreciation of Arnobius' arguments, and of the complicated controversies which surrounded the Great Persecution and the Ruse of Constantine. ... this is a bahnbrechend study of a
difficult author.'
Oliver Nicholson, Journal of Theological Studies
`The first major study of Arnobius of Sicca.'
Theology Digest
`Interesting and well researched book...the book is meticulously argued and carefully documented. Appropriate for research libraries and for specialists in Latin patristics.'
Religious Studies Review
`Simmons is thoroughly persuasive; he has found more extensive signs of Porphyrian influence than his predecessors, whose work he generously credits, and his book will put Arnobian scholarship on sounder footing.'
Church History
`This work will repay the reader by illustrating the fascination and complexity of the social. political. religious and intellectual background against which Christianity was developing at this time.'
The Glastonbury Review