Late Antique Historiography

On the acts of the apostles

Title(s):
  • On the acts of the apostles
  • Historia apostolica
    (Historia apostolica, Apostolic history)
  • De actibus apostolorum
    (De actibus apostolorum, On the acts of the apostles)
Author:
Period covered:
1st c.
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Poetry (general)
  • Sacred history
Remarks:
The work is a paraphrase of the Acts of the apostles.
Edition - Translation:
  • A.P. McKinlay (1951) Aratoris subdiaconi De actibus apostolorum (Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 72). Vienna.
  • A.P. Orbán (2006) Aratoris subdiaconi de actibus apostolorum (Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina, 130-130A). Turnhout.
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Bibliography:
  • (1995) Clavis patrum Latinorum (CPL) 1504
  • P. Chiesa, L. Castaldi (2012) La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo: Mediaeval Latin texts and their transmission. Volume Four (Millennio medievale, 94). Florence: 39-59.
  • R. Hillier (1993) Arator on the Acts of the Apostles: A baptismal commentary (Oxford early Christian studies). Oxford.
  • J. Schwind (1990) Arator-Studien (Hypomnemata, 94). Göttingen.
  • J. Schwind (1995) Sprachliche und exegetische Beobachtungen zu Arator (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, 5). Mainz.