Minucius Felix

A late-second- and early-third century apologist, Minucius Felix was a North African Latin rhetorician who composed a dialogue entitled Octavius, which describes a conversation between a Christian, Octavius, and a pagan respondent, Caecilius (from Cirta in Numidia, the town where (Lactantius would later come from). … (J. A. McGuickin, The Westminster Handbook to Patristic Theology (Louisville KY and London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004) 225-226. See also J. Quasten, Patrology, vol. 2 (Notre Dame IN: Christian Classics, 1983) 155-163.)

Works

  • [Clavis 37] Octauius
    • Editions: Halm, Karl (ed.), CSEL 2 (1867). — Kytzler, B. (ed.), M. Minuci Felicis Octavius, 2nd edn., Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1992). — Pellegrino, M., Paolo Siniscalco and Marco Rizzi (eds.), Marco Minucio Felice Ottavio (Torino: Società editrice internazionale, 2000).
    • Translations: Beaujeu, J. (tr.), Octavius, 2nd edn., Collection des universités de France (Paris: Société d’édition ‘Les Belles Lettres’, 1974). — Clarke, G. W. (tr.), The Octavius of Marcus Minucius Felix, Ancient Christian Writers, 39 (New York: Newman Press, 1974).
    • Lexical studies: Waltzing, J. P. (ed.), Lexicon Minucianum, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de philosophie et lettres de l’Université de Liège, 3 (Liège: Vaillant-Carmanne; Paris: Champion, 1909). — Concordantia in Minuci Felicis Octavium, curantibus Bernhard Kytzler et Dietmar Najock; adiuvante Adam Nowosad, Alpha-Omega, Reihe A, 72 (Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 1991).
  • [Clavis 37a] De fato uel Contra mathematicos (lost)
    • Cf. Préaux, J., `À propos du “De fato” (?) de Minucius Felix’, Latomus, 9 (1950) 395-413.

Secondary references

  • Wiesen, D. S., `Virgil, Minucius Felix and the Bible’, Hermes, 99 (1971) 70-91.
  • Albrecht, M. von, Geschichte der römischen Literatur, 2 (München: K.G. Saur, 1994) 1231-1242. = Albrecht, Michael von, A History of Roman Literature, 2 (New York: Brill, 1996) 1554-1568.
  • Ingremeau, C., `Minucius Felix et ses sources: le travail de l’écrivain’, Revue des études augustiniennes, 45.1 (1999) 3-20.
  • Price, S., `Latin Christian apologetics: Minucius Felix, Tertullian, and Cyprian’, in M. Edwards, M. Goodman, and S. Price (eds.), Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 105-130.

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