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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23660532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul T Keyser, Paul Τ Keyser (0000-0001-7834-627X), Georgia L Irby-Massie |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 500-516 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203462737-1153 |
| OpenAlex | W4403040885 |
| ISBN | 9780203462737 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Before his conversion to Christianity ( ca 300 ce ), Lactantius composed an extant Latin poem Phoenix, describing the home of the bird at the eastern edge of the flat Earth (1–30), and her life and singing for Apollo (31–58). The phoenix lives a millennium, then flies to a Syrian palm ( phoenix), where she builds a nest of incense, on which she bursts into flame, from the ashes of which a worm forms and becomes an egg, out of which hatches a new phoenix (59–122). Lactantius concludes with an ekphrasis of the phoenix (123–170). After his conversion, he composed among others a work on the construction of the human body De Opificio Dei, arguing from function to design. He argued in his systematic theology, Divine Institutes 3.24, that the spherical-Earth theory was absurd and ill-founded.
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |