| Administrative History | Gaius Marius Victorinus Afer was born around 300 AD in the Roman province of Africa. Around 340 he left Africa for Rome, where he became a teacher of rhetoric, so famous and successful that a statue was raised to him in one of the Roman forums in 353, in his lifetime. He was converted to Christianity around 355 and immediately began to write theological works, beginning with four books 'Against Arius' in 359. He also wrote commentaries on Paul's epistles, and before his conversion he wrote explanations of Cicero's rhetoric and translations into Latin of Plato and Aristotle. He died around 370. He was included, with reservations, in Jerome's 'Of Famous Men', and an account of his conversion was instrumental in the conversion of Augustine of Hippo.
Professor Bruce completed this while Croom Robertson Fellow at Aberdeen, 1933 - 1935. |