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Paulus Orosius (/ ˈ p ɔː l ə s ə ˈ r oʊ ʒ ə s /; born c. 375/385 – c. 420 AD), less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo.
Apr 3, 2019 · Paulus Orosius (usually given as Orosius, 5th century CE) was a Christian theologian and historian who was also a friend and protege of St. Augustine of Hippo (l. 354-430 CE).
Orosius: text and translation. Paulus Orosius: Histories against the Pagans. In 410 A.D. the Goths captured the city of Rome - an event which made a profound impression on writers of the time. Pagan writers were quick to blame the disaster on the spread of Christianity: the old gods no longer protected the city.
Paulus Orosius (flourished 414–417, probably Braga, Spain) was a defender of early Christian orthodoxy, theologian, and author of the first world history by a Christian. As a priest, Orosius went to Hippo about 414, where he met St. Augustine.
Jun 17, 2021 · Orosius' Seven Books of History against the Pagans provide a Christian interpretation of history from God's creation of the world to the period of the Gothic attacks on the Roman Empire in the early fifth century.
Old English Orosius is the name usually given by scholars to an adaption into Old English of the Latin Historiae adversus paganos by Paulus Orosius (fl. c. 400).
This is the third modern English translation of Orosius ‘Seven books of history against the pagans’, 1 testifying to a renewed interest in the most influential of late antique historians. Although Orosius presents himself as a collaborator of Augustine, his fortunes have been inversely proportional to those of his ‘master’.
Mar 24, 2021 · Orosius was a Spanish priest, attested in the years 414–419. He is best known as the author of the Histories against the pagans (416–417), a world history that was conceived as a companion piece to the first ten books of Augustine’s City of God.
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Jun 11, 2018 · Orosius (fl. early 5th century), a priest of Tarragona in Spain, disciple of St Augustine and friend of St Jerome, author of the Historia Adversos Paganos, a universal history and geography which was translated by the circle of King Alfred in the 890s.
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