DIVINE INSTITUTIONS - BOOKS I-III

Publisher: Editorial Gredos, S.A. (Madrid). Author: Lactantius (Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius), Latin Christian apologist. Born around 250 AD in Africa. He was a student of rhetoric under Arnobius and master of rhetoric in Nicomedia, at the request of Diocletian. He converted to Christianity, probably in Nicomedia. He lost his position during the persecution of 303 and was later called by Constantine to Gaul to be tutor to Crispus. He wrote the work starting around 305. He was called the "Christian Cicero."