Subversive virtue : asceticism and authority in the second-century pagan world /

Francis, James A., 1954-

Subversive virtue : asceticism and authority in the second-century pagan world / by James A. Francis. - University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1995. - xviii, 222 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-212) and index.

0271013044 (hpb, alk. paper)

93021081


Ascetics--Rome.

BJ171.A82 / F73 1995

111.85 Fra 1995