Apology to Gunthamund, King of Vandals
Blossius Aemilius Dracontius · D.P. Curtin
Feb 2018 · The Punic Church (212-698) Book 12 · Dalcassian Press
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Blossius Aemilius Dracontius offers a legal apology via his own prose for his religious dispute the Arian king of the Vandals. This texts offers a rare insight into late Roman North African from the eyes of a common resident of Carthage. Little is known of the fate of Dracontius. However, he is known to have been released or escaped for the Vandal jail and made his way to freedom in Northern Italy.
About the author
D.P. Curtin is an Irish-American antiquarian and translator. To date he has translated over three hundred texts relating to the development of the Western World and Christianity between the 5th and 15th centuries. The various manuscripts which he has handle are of sundry cultural provenance, including: Celtic, Gallic, Visigothic, Punic, Nubian, Ethiopian, Coptic, Slavic, Armenian, Nordic, Indo-Persian, Byzantine, Syriac, Anglo-Saxon, and Georgian. He is a graduate of Villanova University, Chestnut Hill College, and Chatham University.
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