Polemica per immagini adversus paganos nell’omiletica dell’Italia settentrionale di fine IV secolo

Abstract

The paper analyses the polemics against pagans in the homiletics
by north-Italian bishops Zeno of Verona, Chromatius of Aquileia,
Gaudentius of Brescia, Maximus of Turin. These bishops of the late
4th century often use biblical images, descriptions of pagan gods
and images re-elaborated by themselves for depicting pagans and
emphasizing their vices and errors.