Arnobe
See also: Arnobe the Young person
Arnobe (in Latin Arnobius ), known as the Old , is a Latin writer Christian born in second half of the 3rd century with Sicca Veneria in Numidie (North Africa).
Biography
August 1st Before its conversion with the Christianity, Arnobe was a famous Rhéteur. It is contemporary of Dioclétien (v. 300).After its conversion, he wrote in rythmée prose art a Adversus Nationes (polemical work “against the pagan ones” in seven books) aiming at refuting the Paganisme. He gathers there immoral passages of mythology pagan.
Its thought, not very original but not very orthodoxe, is perhaps influenced by the Hérétique Marcion. It had like disciple Lactance.
Arnobe dies towards 327. It will inspire Montaigne, Bossuet and the Fountain.
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